The book of abstracts for The 2015 Annual Conference of the EU-SPRI Forum: Innovation policies for economic and social transitions: Developing strategies for knowledge, practices and organizations

This Book of Abstracts contains the accepted extended abstracts of the 2015 annual conference of the EU-SPRI Forum (http://www.euspri-forum.eu). The 2015 conference titled "Innovation policies for economic and social transitions: Developing strategies for knowledge, practice and institutions" showcases the work of leading European and international scholars and policy makers interested in the study of policies for research and innovation. The 2015 conference follows the tradition and organization of EU-SPRI Annual conference realized in Manchester in 2014, Madrid in 2013, and Karlsruhe in 2012. A key objective of the conference is to enable research and innovation policy scholars to exchange views across their usual disciplinary boundaries and engage with policy makers. The theme of the conference addresses the role of innovation policies in supporting broader economic and societal transformation, a theme well timed in the European context but one that allows us to integrate in a novel way also other world regions, such as emerging economies and developing countries struggling to solve economic modernization and pressing social challenges.