The New Role of the State for Transformative Innovation

Edited by Uwe Cantner, Dirk Fornahl and Stefan Kuhlmann

in Books from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This comprehensive Handbook explores the multifaceted and evolving role of the state in driving innovation, with a view to addressing the grand societal challenges, including sustainability, social inclusivity and economic transformation.

Keywords: Transformative Innovation Policy; Role Of The State In Innovation; Challenge-Oriented Innovation; Innovation Governance; Public Policy And Innovation; Socio-Technical Transformation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781839100253
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Towards a new role of the state for transformative innovation

Uwe Cantner, Dirk Fornahl and Stefan Kuhlmann

Ch 2 The political economy of capabilities accumulation: from catching-up lessons to transformative industrial policies

Mario Cimoli, Giovanni Dosi and Joseph E. Stiglitz

Ch 3 MNEs, innovation, capitalism, and democracy

Eva Dantas and Elisa Giuliani

Ch 4 Innovation and economic well-being

Luc Soete and Bart Verspagen

Ch 5 Innovation commons: new innovation policy for a digital economy

Jason Potts

Ch 6 The rediscovery of mission orientation in research and innovation policy in Europe: in need of new state capacities

Wolfgang Polt and Matthias Weber

Ch 7 Innovation policy as an instrument for driving transformation: lessons from practice

Sofia Avdeitchikova and Sylvia Schwaag Serger

Ch 8 From technological to transformative missions: institutional capacities and capabilities for contemporary mission-oriented policies

Caetano C.R. Penna, Diana Velasco, Johan Schot and Jordi Molas-Gallart

Ch 9 Public agencies for innovation-led growth and transformation

Dan Breznitz and Steven Samford

Ch 10 Reframing innovation policy: social innovation and a new innovation paradigm

Jürgen Howaldt

Ch 11 Innovation (policy) and the climate turn

Till Requate

Ch 12 Mobilizing innovation policy in the pursuit of net zero emissions: an evolutionary perspective

Jan Fagerberg

Ch 13 The state as the “shield of the weak”: innovation policy as an inclusive strategy

Judith Sutz

Ch 14 Disentangling the multilevel roles of the state in transformative innovation policy in the Global South: nested governance configurations in the case of Uruguay and Colombia

Mario A. Pinzón-Camargo, Isabel Bortagaray, Alejandro Balanzó-Guzmán, Juan Pablo Centeno, Gonzalo Ordóñez-Matamoros and Stefan Kuhlmann

Ch 15 Persistent problems in China's innovation system: institutions and politics

Douglas B. Fuller and Ricardo Lopes Kotz

Ch 16 States and markets in innovation research and innovation policy: achievements and challenges

Charles Edquist

Ch 17 Green innovation policy in transition

Reinhilde Veugelers

Ch 18 States of innovation: a critical perspective

Joakim Juhl, Erik Aarden and Sebastian Michael Pfotenhauer

Ch 19 Creative corporatism: how the state supports transformative innovation in Nordic Europe

Darius Ornston

Ch 20 Demand, public procurement, and transformation

Jakob Edler

Ch 21 The role of regulation for socio-technical transformations

Knut Blind

Ch 22 Technological sovereignty of an economy: mastery and availability of key enabling technologies

Uwe Cantner, Helge Dauchert, Lukas Dreier, Patrick Figge and Carolin Häussler

Ch 23 Evaluating transitions and missions: it's all about the theory

Erik Arnold and Emily Wise

Ch 24 Transformations need resilient policy designs: a multi-level analysis of policy mix coherence and regional resilience during the COVID-19 crisis in Western Norway

Saeed Moghadam-Saman, Lars Coenen and Elvira Uyarra

Ch 25 Smart specialisation strategies

Dominique Foray

Ch 26 Policy mixes for new place-based innovation policies: the role of regions in addressing grand societal challenges

Edurne Magro and James R. Wilson

Ch 27 Building regional (transformative) resilience by regional innovation policy?

Huiwen Gong and Robert Hassink

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