Innovation policy and the regulatory framework- making innovation an integral part of the broader structural agenda - Innovation is not just based on research, or science and technology. Innovation depends on organisational, social, economic, marketing and other knowledge. The nature of innovation is changing in the knowledge-based economy. We cannot assume that established policies for encouraging innovation are adequate to the new conditions. Nor can we assume that the ways in which other policy areas have taken innovation into account are still adequate. The purpose of the study was to synthesise the new approaches to innovation policy required by, and being implemented within, a knowledge-based and creative society to identify and review the links between innovation policy and other policies, in particular those policies relating to the legal and regulatory framework for innovation, with a view to providing analytical pointers for further co-ordinatio