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Academic firm; Creative destruction; Entrepreneurial university; Global innovation ecosystems; Higher order learning; Innovation diffusion; Knowledge for growth; Knowledge production; Mode 1, Mode 2, and Mode 3 knowledge production systems; Quadruple innovation helix systems; Regional, sectoral, and self-similar innovation networks and knowledge clusters; Smart specialization strategies; Strategic management of technological learning; Technology and business life cycle

The Conceptual Sociotechnical, Socioeconomic, and Sociopolitical Context for the Epidemiology of Innovation

With the onset of organized human activity going back thousands of years, and surely since the industrial revolution, science, technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship have evolved to be major determinants of the way humans live. In the Western world, science, technology, and economy are interrelated and have allowed for both the growth of the economy and the emergence of national and supranational...

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Correspondence to Elias G. Carayannis Ph.D., M.BA., B.Sc. EE .

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Carayannis, E.G., Evangelatos, N.G., Campbell, D.F.J. (2013). Epidemiology of Innovation: Concepts and Constructs. In: Carayannis, E.G. (eds) Encyclopedia of Creativity, Invention, Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3858-8_508

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