It is widely recognised today - and this was highlighted by the OECD Innovation Strategy -that innovation policy can contribute significantly to achieving these goals by harnessing an innovative, knowledge-based economy. With full recognition of the current policy initiatives across many EU and non-EU nations directed at what are termed demand-side innovation policies - public measures to increase demand for innovations, to improve conditions for the uptake of innovations or to improve the articulation of demand in order to spur innovations and allow their diffusion" - this review concentrates on supply-side factors. This concentration reflects a considered judgment concerning both sides of the supply-demand interface.