Public agencies for innovation-led growth and transformation

Dan Breznitz and Steven Samford

Chapter 9 in The New Role of the State for Transformative Innovation, 2026, pp 147-162 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: In this chapter, the authors argue that public innovation agencies are associated with distinct manners of promoting innovation, and extend this argument by identifying affinities between types of agencies and the type of innovation their regional economy specializes in. The chapter begins with a discussion of the distinction between four general stages of innovation, each of which can serve as a basis for innovation-led growth. The authors then lay out their typology of innovation agencies and describe how their organizational features give them an affinity or a suitability for a particular stage of innovation. Two descriptive cases of each of the four types of agencies from very different regions show how the agencies’ particular features allow them to promote activities appropriate to a particular kind of innovation-led growth.

Keywords: Innovation; Economic Growth; Industrial Policy; Government Agencies; Regions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781839100253
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