Regional Innovation Systems - Science topic

All the best. CI

Dear Xina,

In a nutshell, innovation networks are the actors in the system and their various connections identified by critical functions in the system such as fund, goods, information flows. Innovation systems cover not only the innovation networks but also actor independent environmental parameters, such as international markets, policies .

Figure 1 in of the first poster (with circles) theory of change in the second poster can give you an idea and. Also both posters provide examples of innovation networks and their broader environments, i.e. innovation systems,

You can also find examples of evidence on innovation networks and systems from twitter.

Thank you very much for all the suggestions. I found them very useful because I have heard about the main role of innovative culture to reach innovation, but It would be great to show the relationship between that.  I will tell you about my findings. 

I wish to thanks for the citations. I think that the reading of the mentioned paper could be so useful to better understand the real effects produced by a Science Parks 

Adding to what Laura is suggesting, if you fail to find information on the projects you can also work with 'outputs' of these pojects. Such as papers (indexed in Web of Knowledge or SCOPUS), Patents or similar.

Also, if you feel like it, you could compare the stages (imput vs. output) to see different dinamics working on the network.

Krzysztof is right, I am afraid that asking for basic literature does not reflect a good researcher habit.

My advise is for you to utilize google scholar with some keyword (e.g "innovation systems energy" ... or replace energy with other industry) relating to the topic you are looking for. If you need help in downloading paid articles.. let me know, I should be able to help with that (just the major ones - because i don't have the a lot of time to download articles).

Good luck with your research.

Here's a short summary of Glaser and Strauss (1967). Would be of help.

It is important do not forget that RIS, and NIS too, is a theoretical concept. It is an observation instrument (like a microscope) and not an object itself. Such concept allows us to understand the relationships system established (between the mentioned actors) e.g. in the considered region. Such instrument can be used to observe the region at all, an industrial sector within that region (e.g. automobile, agrifood, biotech, etc.), etc. This does not mean that there are one, two or more RIS; the observer is using the instrument for looking at different places.