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Today, it is widely recognised that technological change is the primary engine of economic development. Innovation — the heart of technological change — is a process that depends essentially upon the accumulation and development of a wide variety of relevant knowledge. Certainly individual firms play a crucial role in the development of specific innovation, but the process that nurtures and disseminates technological change in the economy involves a complex web of interactions among a range of firms, organisations and institutions.
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Fischer, M.M., Diez, J.R., Snickars, F. (2001). Systems of Innovation: An Attractive Conceptual Framework for Comparative Innovation Research. In: Metropolitan Innovation Systems. Advances in Spatial Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04630-2_1
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