Industry and Innovation is an international refereed journal presenting high-quality original scholarship of the dynamics of industries and innovation. Interdisciplinary in nature, Industry and Innovation is informed by, and contributes in turn to, advancing the theoretical frontier within economics, organization theory, and economic geography. Theoretical issues encompass:

• What are the institutional underpinnings for different organizational forms?
• How are different industrial structures and institutions related to innovation patterns and economic performance?

The journal hence adds to a “new generation of industrial organization theory”, drawing upon the institutional turn within economics in a broad sense: transaction cost economics; economics of organization; and new economic sociology.

Industry and Innovation dedicates special attention to depicting tendencies in industrial dynamics, such as the emergence of new industries; restructuring of existing industries; rise of new institutional and organizational forms; globalization; and other aspects of geographical organization. Empirical studies include:

• Performance differences among and within industries
• The increasing incidence of particular organizational forms in industries; such as clusters; networks; inter-firm projects; and online communities
• The dynamics of vertical integration and disintegration, modularity, systems integration, and “open innovation”
• The impact upon economic performance of institutions such as property right regimes; open source, industrial/science/regional policies; and social capital/social conventions/trust
• The growth of new consumer industries; for example, Cultural Industries such as film, music, computer games, and the interplay between these industries and “old” industries
• The growth of new service industries, such as Knowledge-Intensive Business Services and design
•  The restructuring; globalization; or decline of “old” industries
•  New trends in industrial and technological policies

Peer Review Policy:

All articles have undergone rigorous editorial screening and double-blind peer review by a minimum of two recognized scholars.