The Role of Innovation Knowledge Networks in Higher Education: Experiences of the Development of a Power-to-Gas Innovation Ecosystem

Abstract

Building on the fundamentals of network theories, our research analyses the role of higher education institutions  as network nodes of the innovation ecosystem that create  connections among basic research, practical corporate  innovation and regulatory institutions. The legislator should incite the “flow” of the evolving knowledge within an innovation network that means benefit for the society.  Through a concrete case study, it is presented how these  processes (could) work in practice.