Innovation Systems and Support Instruments
Innovation systems are closely linked with the subject of knowledge and its generation, exchange, development and application. This allows innovative products and services to emerge and at the same time fosters intensely collaborative processes. It is not only the individual players at the micro-level with their respective resources and capabilities that are relevant, for instance companies and research institutions; rather, decisive drivers for innovation are increasingly found at the meso-level as well. This includes that players and stakeholders interrelate to build structures, so that their interaction, collaboration and networking mobilises additional "capital" – such as within the scope of cluster development.
What range of services do we offer?
Smoothly functioning innovation systems are more of an ideal than a reality. For many years, we have been supporting the EU as well as the German federal government and Länder governments with professional content design and with the implementation of new instruments that promote research and innovation. Owing to our many years of experience as a project-executing agency, we also have administrative and organisational expertise.
We look at innovation systems from their respective geographical, sectoral and technological contexts. Based on our diverse experiences with different innovation systems, we provide our clients with empirically-based up-to-date insights on regional or national innovation systems, classify them within the (inter)national innovation landscape and support the further evolvement, especially of regional co-operations, such as clusters and networks.
Our services include:
- Analysis and evaluation of innovation systems as well as diagnostic analysis, i.e. the identification of strengths, weaknesses and possible strategies and fields of development.
- Advice, consulting and support for political and economic players with respect to the design of new instruments to promote innovation as well as with regard to further development of existing instruments, taking into account the various interfaces between science and industry in the context of knowledge and technology transfer.
What methods and tools do we work with?
The foundations for our research and consulting activities are the diversification and continuity of our topics and our extensive experience in business operations. Our portfolio of methods allows the combined use of quantitative analytical tools and qualitative methods. Based on our diverse practical experience, we constantly refine the instruments we employ. Please do not hesitate to consult with us!
Publikationen
- A new approach for analysing national innovation systems in emerging and developing countries (2013)
- ANIS: Botswana : Summarising Report of the Determinants of the Botswana Innovation System (2010)
- ANIS: Indonesia : Summarising Report of the Determinants of the Indonesian Innovation System (2012)
- ANIS: Namibia : Summarising Report of the Determinants of the Namibian Innovation System (2010)
- ANIS: Tunisia : Summarising report on the determinants of the Tunisian innovation system with special focus on the sectors “water” and “energy” (2013)
- ANIS: Zambia: Summarising Report of the Determinants of the Zambian Innovation System (2010)
- Cluster Games: A Novel, Game Theory-Based Approach to Better Understand Incentives and Stability in Clusters (2012)
- Cluster Impact Analysis : The real cluster case (2013)
- Cluster Management Excellence in Germany : German clusters in comparison with European peers (2013)
- Clusters in Emerging Industries : iit perspektive 9 (2012)
- Clusters in Germany: An Empirical Based Insight View on Emergence, Financing,Management and Competitiveness of the Most Innovative Clusters in Germany (2009)
- Developing Successful Creative & Cultural Clusters: Measuring their outcomes and impacts with new framework tools (2012)
- European Clusters go International : Networks and clusters as instruments for the initiation of international business cooperation (2011)
- Evaluation concept for clusters and networks: Prerequisites of a common and joint evaluation system (2012)
- Evaluation of Clusters, Networks and Cluster Policies – Challenges and Implementation : iit perspektive 14 (2013)
- German-Polish Network-based R&D-Co-operation: Enablers and Barriers (2008)
- iit Trend Monitoring : Start-Up Scene (2017)
- Innovation calculations : in: International Innovation (2012)
- New Approaches to Improve the Performance of Cluster Management Organisations in Europe (2014)
- Quality Enhanced Cluster Management : A New Indicator Based Peer Review Approach for the Mutual Development of Cluster Organisational Excellenc (2008)
- Quality Frame: A Fact based peer Review Approach for the Mutual development of organisational Excellence – A manual for innovation initiatives (2008)
- Regional Innovation Strategies for Chile – Taking Advantage of European Experiences in Smart Specialisation : iit perspektive 12 (2013)
- Summary Report on the Determinants of the Local Innovation System of Manaus, Brazil (2010)
- The Egyptian Innovation System : An Exploratory Study with Specific Focus on Egyptian Technology Transfer and Innovation Centres (2008)
- Understanding Regional Transformation Processes – New Instruments for Regional Strategy Development: iit perspektive 43 (2019)