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The purpose of the research is to gain insight into foreign experiences with knowledge and innovation policies focused on freight transport and logistics, and to identify lessons learned from these experiences for the Dutch policy practice. The results will serve as input for further development of the program "Netherlands Innovation Country". Additionally, the research aims to identify where relevant knowledge is present in the foreign knowledge infrastructure, with a view to potential future collaborations.
The following benchmark countries are included in the comparison: Belgium (B), Germany (D), Finland (FI), France (F), Taiwan (TW), Sweden (S) and Switzerland (CH). In conducting the country studies, the innovation system approach has been used as a starting point. This approach views innovation processes as interactive learning processes between different (companies and other types of) actors that depend on each other to bring innovations about. Freight transport and logistics are - according to this approach - considered as a cluster or innovation system.