Systems and Innovation Research in Transition

Prof. Jakob Edler is the Executive Director of Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI (Karlsruhe, Germany), and Professor of Innovation Policy and Strategy at the University of Manchester (UK). His main areas of research are analysis and design of governance and policy in science and innovation, and the role of the state in influencing social and economic transformations.Prof. Rainer Walz is the Deputy Director of Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI (Karlsruhe, Germany). His prior employment includes the Enquête Commission on "Protecting the Earth's Atmosphere" of the German Bundestag. His main areas of research are lead markets and competitiveness of industry, sustainability innovations, and interaction between economic development, globalization, and industrial policy.

• Introduction.- Understanding paradigm change in science, technology and innovation policy: Between science push and policy pull.- Development of innovation monitoring and innovation indicators in the past 50 years.- Foresight. Fifty years to think your futures.- Evaluating public research and innovation policies. A short history of co-evolution.- Assessing technological innovations. From early warning to the governance of socio-technical transformations.- Industry in a changing era. Production paradigms during the last 50 years.- From Niche to Mainstream: Exploring innovation and progress of renewable energy development.- Energy Demand and Modelling of Energy Systems. Five Decades from Little Knowledge to Differentiated Know-how.- Understanding the co-evolution of research and water protection policies: from single technologies to systemic integrated approaches for the sustainable use of water.- Drivers and patterns of change in systems and innovation research.