The New Economics of Technology Policy

Edited by Dominique Foray

in Books from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This book focuses on technological policies, in other words all public interventions intended to influence the intensity, composition and direction of technological innovations within a given entity (region, country or group of countries). The editor has gathered together many of the leading scholars in the field to comprehensively explore numerous avenues and pathways of research. The book sheds light on the theory and practice of technological policies by employing modern analytical tools and economic techniques.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Innovations and Technology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A2 I2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
ISBN: 9781848443495
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 General Introduction

Dominique Foray

Ch 2 Building Effective ‘Innovation Systems’ versus Dealing with ‘Market Failures’ as Ways of Thinking About Technology Policy

Richard Nelson

Ch 3 Technology Policy: The Roles of Industrial Analysis and Innovation Studies

W Steinmueller

Ch 4 Increase Learning, Break Knowledge Lock-ins and Foster Dynamic Complementarities: Evolutionary and System Perspectives on Technology Policy in Industrial Dynamics

Franco Malerba

Ch 5 Can we Link Policy Practice with Research on ‘STIG Systems’? Toward Connecting the Analysis of Science, Technology and Innovation Policy with Realistic Programs for Economic Development and Growth

Philippe Aghion, Paul David and Dominique Foray

Ch 6 Comments

Dietmar Harhoff

Ch 7 Critical Episodes in the Progress of Medical Innovation

Nathan Rosenberg

Ch 8 A Policy-shaped Research Agenda on the Economics of Science and Technology

Irwin Feller

Ch 9 Basic Research and Growth Policy

Hans Gersbach

Ch 10 Comments

Mark Schankerman

Ch 11 Comments on Nathan Rosenberg’s ‘Critical Episodes in the Progress of Medical Innovation’

Iain Cockburn

Ch 12 What Does Economic Theory Tell us About Mission-oriented R&D?

David C. Mowery

Ch 13 The Dismal Science, the Crown Jewel and the Endless Frontier

Bhaven Sampat

Ch 14 Comments

W Steinmueller

Ch 15 The ‘Funding Gap’: Financial Markets and Investment in Innovation

Bronwyn Hall

Ch 16 R&D Investment Under Uncertainty: The Role of R&D Subsidies and Patent Policy

Dirk Czarnitzki and Andrew A. Toole

Ch 17 Innovation Surveys and Innovation Policy

Jacques Mairesse and Pierre Mohnen

Ch 18 How Effective are the R&D-Promoting Activities of the Swiss Innovation Agency CTI? An Evaluation Based on Matched-pairs Analysis

Spyros Arvanitis and Nora Sydow

Ch 19 Characteristics of Foreign R&D Strategies of Swiss Firms: Implications for Policy

Heinz Hollenstein

Ch 20 Small and Medium-sized Enterprises: The Promotion of R&D and Innovation Behaviour in Switzerland

Beat Hotz-Hart

Ch 21 Nature of the European Technology Gap: Creative Destruction or Industrial Policy?

David Encaoua

Ch 22 Innovation, Growth and Structural Reforms: What Role for EU Policy?

Reinhilde Veugelers

Ch 23 Adapting Policy to User-centered Innovation

Eric von Hippel

Ch 24 Technology Policy, Cooperation and Human Systems Design

Yochai Benkler

Ch 25 Comments

David Encaoua

Ch 26 Innovation Policy for Development: An Overview

Manuel Trajtenberg

Ch 27 Discussion of Manuel Trajtenberg’s ‘Innovation Policy for Development: An Overview’

Richard R. Nelson

Ch 28 Research Without Frontiers

Luc Soete

Ch 29 The Rumblings of a Paradigm Shift: Concluding Comments

Manuel Trajtenberg

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