Making innovation policy work : learning from experimentation

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Publisher: OECD
Year: 2014
Tongue: English
Leaves: 288
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book explores emerging topics in innovation policy for more inclusive and sustainable growth, building on concrete examples. It develops the notion of experimental innovation policy - which integrates monitoring and feedback at the policy design stage, and occurs continuously to improve impact and implementation. This approach should help improve the quality and efficiency of public expenditures supporting Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Foreword --
Abbreviations and acronyms --
Executive summary --
Making innovation policy work: The benefits and lessons of experimental innovation policy --
New open economy industrial policy: Making choices without picking winners --
"Bottom of the pyramid" innovation and pro-poor growth --
Innovation for the "base of the pyramid": Developing a framework for policy experimentation --
Incubating the incubation cycle: Two approaches to promoting techno-entrepreneurship in weak institutional environments --
Supporting affordable biotechnology innovations: Learning from global collaboration and local experience --
Fostering innovation for green growth: Learning from policy experimentation --
Making evaluations count: Toward more informed policy --
Scaling up and sustaining experimental innovation policies with limited resources: Peripheral Schumpeterian development agencies.

✦ Subjects

Technological innovations -- Economic aspects -- Congresses;Technological innovations -- Economic aspects

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