Innovation in services, performance and public policy

Innovation dans les services, performance et politique publique

Faïz Gallouj and Faridah Djellal ()

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Abstract: This work is devoted to an analysis of the innovation-performance relationship in contemporary developed economies. It reveals a double « gap » relating to innovation and performance. The « innovation gap » reflects the difference between the reality of innovation produced in an economy and what traditional innovation indicators (R&D, patents) capture. As for the « performance gap », this measures the difference between the reality of performance in an economy and the performance assessed by traditional economic tools (mainly productivity and growth). It reflects a hidden performance, invisible to these tools. These two « gaps » blur the innovation-performance relationship. They are behind a certain number of paradoxes which this work intends to explain, and they lead one to question the legitimacy of some public policies which support innovation.

Keywords: productivity; performance; growth; public policy; innovation; services; services; productivité; performance; croissance; politique publique (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-06
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Published in Économie appliquée : archives de l'Institut de science économique appliquée, 2011, LXIV (2), pp.53-89

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