Edited by Charles Edquist, Professor, CIRCLE, Lund University, Sweden, Nicholas S. Vonortas, Professor, Center for International Science and Technology Policy and Department of Economics, The George Washington University, US, Jon Mikel Zabala-Iturriagagoitia, Researcher, Deusto Business School, University of Deusto, Spain and Jakob Edler, Managing Director, Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI, Germany and Professor of Innovation Policy and Strategy, University of Manchester, UK