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Innovation, policy and economic growth: Theory and cases

The origin for this special issue goes back to June 2004, when a group of economic geographers at Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, organized an international conference on “Governance and Places”, or GaP. GaP can be understood in two different ways. First, it refers to the research group on Governance and Places from the Faculty of Management Sciences at Radboud University, the group that organized the conference. One of the teams of the GaP group researches the knowledge-based economy and innovation. Secondly, GaP refers to the real meaning of the word, in the sense that there is a gap between knowledge, on the one hand, and innovation, on the other hand. Both scientists and practitioners are searching for ways to close this gap in order to boost our economies. One of the sessions in the conference was dedicated to this knowledge gap. Scientists from a variety of disciplines (i.e. economic geography, sociology and business economics) presented and discussed their work in this session. Their papers are the basis of the current special issue.