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AbstractAustralian government policy aims to exploit university–industry research collaboration to transform the nation from a 'lucky' country enjoying the riches of agribusiness and resource exploitation, to a 'clever' country, exporting ingenuity and innovation globally. The Cooperative Research Centres (CRC) program has operated for more than a quarter of a century, but successive modifications demonstrate an inherent tension between two governance narratives pertaining to university–industry collaboration. This brief discussion looks at how the gradual privileging of one of these two narratives over time could potentially compromise genuine innovation‐producing collaboration. Policy makers therefore need to find ways to reconcile these two narratives.

AbstractInclusive innovation remains an under-conceptualised and ambiguous concept despite garnering political and academic interest in recent decades. This paper explores the narratives of inclusive innovation that exist in literature and how these are framed in practice, using a case study of the Kenyan agricultural sector. Findings indicate that while there is significant similarity between the theoretical and empirical framing of the concept, there are also stark differences. In addition, different actors such as the state, development agencies, the private sector or universities do not fully ascribe to any of the existing theoretical narratives on inclusive innovation. Instead, they frame it based on their own contexts, mandate and interests using concepts borrowed from existing theoretical narratives. This indicates that instead of a grand theory of inclusive innovation that applies universally, there are several ways of enacting inclusive innovation. This also limits the transferability of a one-size-fits-all model of inclusive innovation.

The formation of a successful innovation system at the national level is impossible without the participation of human capital. As a result of the analysis of the narratives of the actors of the Russian innovation system (state, business, science), the authors identified failures of state regulation based on the expert opinions of respondents connected and devoted to the problem of the outflow of human capital and its influence on the formation of the Russian innovation system. The empirical basis for the analysis of the narratives of the actors of the Russian innovation system was 43 media sources contained in the electronic archive of information sources "Integrum" for the period from January 1, 2010, to July 1, 2021 The study identified 3 main reasons for the persistence of existing problems reproduction and outflow of scientific and academic personnel from Russia.

by Sarah Giest (Leiden University)   This article suggests changing the cluster narrative around the importance of locality, life cycles and the focus on one industry and instead looking at the underlying mechanisms of collaborative and absorptive capacity driving innovation dynamics in and beyond clusters. This enables government in collaboration with cluster organisations to facilitate … Continued