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Introduction: Making sense of innovation policy

In: Handbook of Innovation Policy Impact

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  • Jakob Edler
  • Abdullah Gök
  • Paul Cunningham
  • Philip Shapira

Abstract

This chapter introduces the reader to the wealth of evidence in this Handbook, and provides guidance for the interpretation of its findings. It first presents the basic definitions and delineations of innovation policy and discusses innovation policy rationales and their limitations. The chapter then reflects on the different understandings of policy instruments and on the nature of policy impact, highlighting the benefits, value and limits of impact analysis. Against this background, a typology of innovation policy instruments is presented which has been developed for this Handbook to systematise the evidence and which allows distinct entry points for readers interested in different kinds of instruments. After providing an explanation of the methodology applied throughout the Handbook, the chapter closes with reflections on how to interpret the findings of the book.

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  • Jakob Edler & Abdullah Gök & Paul Cunningham & Philip Shapira, 2016. "Introduction: Making sense of innovation policy," Chapters, in: Jakob Edler & Paul Cunningham & Abdullah Gök & Philip Shapira (ed.), Handbook of Innovation Policy Impact, chapter 1, pages 1-17, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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    1. Jakob Edler & Jan Fagerberg, 2017. "Innovation policy: what, why, and how," Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Oxford University Press and Oxford Review of Economic Policy Limited, vol. 33(1), pages 2-23.
    2. Jürgen Janger & Thomas König, 2020. "Forschungspolitik in Österreich. Zentrale Ansatzpunkte für eine Leistungssteigerung in der Grundlagenforschung," WIFO Studies, WIFO, number 66625, April.
    3. Auboin, Marc & Koopman, Robert & Xu, Ankai, 2021. "Trade and innovation policies: Coexistence and spillovers," Journal of Policy Modeling, Elsevier, vol. 43(4), pages 844-872.
    4. Stryjek, Joanna, 2018. "Interwencja państwa za pomocą instrumentów polityki innowacyjnej: wprowadzenie bodźców podatkowych w celu zwiększenia nakładów na działalność badawczo-rozwojową w Polsce," Studia z Polityki Publicznej / Public Policy Studies, Warsaw School of Economics, vol. 5(3), pages 1-18, July.
    5. Grashof, Nils, 2021. "Putting the watering can away –Towards a targeted (problem-oriented) cluster policy framework," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 50(9).
    6. Joanna Stryjek, 2021. "Counteracting the COVID-19 Crisis with Innovation Policy Tools: A Case Study of the EU’s Supranational Innovation Policy," European Research Studies Journal, European Research Studies Journal, vol. 0(3), pages 450-468.
    7. Torregrosa-Hetland, Sara & Pelkonen, Antti & Oksanen, Juha & Kander, Astrid, 2019. "The prevalence of publicly stimulated innovations –A comparison of Finland and Sweden, 1970–2013," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 48(6), pages 1373-1384.
    8. Steven Denney & Travis Southin & David A Wolfe, 2023. "Do winners pick government? How scale-up experience shapes entrepreneurs’ assessments of innovation policy mixes," Science and Public Policy, Oxford University Press, vol. 50(5), pages 858-870.
    9. Nils Grashof & Alexander Kopka, 2023. "Widening or closing the gap? The relationship between artificial intelligence, firm-level productivity and regional clusters," Bremen Papers on Economics & Innovation 2304, University of Bremen, Faculty of Business Studies and Economics.

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