An introduction to innovation and policy / Louise Earl and Fred Gault -- What do we know about innovation and socio-economic change? : lessons from the TEARI Project / Jan Fagerberg -- The role of benchmarks and targets in Canadian innovation policy / Surendra Gera, Richard Roy and Thitima Songsakul -- Innovation in enterprise clusters : evidence from Dutch manufacturing / Bert Diederen, Pierre Mohnen, Franz C. Palm, Wladimir Raymond and Sybrand Schim van der Loeff -- Innovation and other components of growth in Canadian technology firms / Michael Bordt, Frances Anderson, Louise Earl, Charlene Lonmo and Toms Gabriel Bas -- Large and small firms and intellectual property : protecting software / Norhne Chabchoub and Jorge Niosi -- Innovation and creativity in city-regions : what do we know, and where do we go next? / Meric S. Gertler and David A. Wolfe -- Innovation in human-social guise / Susan A. McDaniel -- Rethinking science and technology indicators for innovation policy in the twenty-first century / Anthony Arundel, Alessandra Colecchia and Andrew Wyckoff -- Knowledge, policy and innovation / Luc Soete -- Insights into innovation, indicators and policy / Fred Gault and Louise Earl.