Catherine Beaudry is Full Professor in the Department of Mathematical and Industrial Engineering and Canada Research Chair at École Polytechnique Montréal, Canada. Thierry Burger-Helmchen is Professor of Innovation Management at the University of Strasbourg, France.Patrick Cohendet is Professor in the Department of International Business at HEC Montréal, Canada.

• Introduction: Innovation policies and practices within innovation ecosystems 1. Exploring regional innovation ecosystems: an empirical study in China 2. Entrepreneurship, complexity and the emergent order in the techno-economic scenario of the twenty-first century. Evidence from a field study in Tuscany 3. Local innovation ecosystem: structure and impact on adaptive capacity of firms 4. The evolution of knowledge-intensive innovation ecosystems: co-evolving entrepreneurial activity and innovation policy in the West Swedish maritime system

Catherine Beaudry is Full Professor in the Department of Mathematical and Industrial Engineering and Canada Research Chair at École Polytechnique Montréal, Canada. Thierry Burger-Helmchen is Professor of Innovation Management at the University of Strasbourg, France.Patrick Cohendet is Professor in the Department of International Business at HEC Montréal, Canada.

• Introduction: Innovation policies and practices within innovation ecosystems 1. Exploring regional innovation ecosystems: an empirical study in China 2. Entrepreneurship, complexity and the emergent order in the techno-economic scenario of the twenty-first century. Evidence from a field study in Tuscany 3. Local innovation ecosystem: structure and impact on adaptive capacity of firms 4. The evolution of knowledge-intensive innovation ecosystems: co-evolving entrepreneurial activity and innovation policy in the West Swedish maritime system

Catherine Beaudry is Full Professor in the Department of Mathematical and Industrial Engineering and Canada Research Chair at École Polytechnique Montréal, Canada. Thierry Burger-Helmchen is Professor of Innovation Management at the University of Strasbourg, France.Patrick Cohendet is Professor in the Department of International Business at HEC Montréal, Canada.

• Introduction: Innovation policies and practices within innovation ecosystems 1. Exploring regional innovation ecosystems: an empirical study in China 2. Entrepreneurship, complexity and the emergent order in the techno-economic scenario of the twenty-first century. Evidence from a field study in Tuscany 3. Local innovation ecosystem: structure and impact on adaptive capacity of firms 4. The evolution of knowledge-intensive innovation ecosystems: co-evolving entrepreneurial activity and innovation policy in the West Swedish maritime system