Editorial: Innovation processes research implications for public policy

This volume can of necessity report only a few of the salient pieces of research in the tradition described in this introduction. Much of this research is still in process; other pieces have been reported in other media. We feel, however, that the effort to showcase a sample of innovation analyses, and thereby give some idea of the range of topics and approaches which the field requires, will ultimately improve the efficiency of both the research process and its utilization in the policy context. Comments, on both the specific research angles reported here and the research program direction generally, are cordially invited by the authors.