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For most researchers and policy makers, the importance of science and technology to industrial development is unchallenged — the focus in the last half of the 20th century has been to understand the process of technological progress and industrial development, the better to manage it. Science and technology is an activity embedded in a complex system. In coming to grips with this, the discussion has shifted from science and technology to “innovation” and to “systems of innovation.”
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Holbrook, J.A.D., Hughes, L.P. (1998). Innovation in Enterprises in British Columbia. In: de La Mothe, J., Paquet, G. (eds) Local and Regional Systems of Innovation. Economics of Science, Technology and Innovation, vol 14. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5551-3_9
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