Making Innovation Policy Work: Learning from Experimentation

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 innovation policy.

Contents:

+ Foreword

+ Contributors

+ Acknowledgements

+ Abbreviations and acronyms

+ Executive summary
-Key findings
-Key policy recommendations

+ Chapter 1. Making innovation policy work: The benefits and lessons of experimental innovation policy

+ Chapter 2. New open economy industrial policy: Making choices without picking winners
-Examples of new industrial policy
-Framework programmes that help scale up micro changes to the macro level
-Contrasts with previous generations of industrial policy
-Conclusion: Hayek meets List
-References

+ Chapter 3. ‘Bottom of the pyramid’ innovation and pro-poor growth
-The need for a pro-poor growth agenda
-What do we mean by innovation?
-In what way has innovation contributed to exclusive growth?
-Why has innovation been exclusive?
-A response to marginalisation: The rise (and fall) of the AT movement
-The world is changing: Forces of disruption
-Promoting pro-poor innovation: Market or state and policy implications
-References

+ Chapter 4. Innovation for the ‘base of the pyramid’: Developing a framework for policy experimentation
-Definitions and rationale for BOP innovation
-The changing sources of innovation and new challenges
-The different categories of BOP innovation
-BOP innovations and public goods
-Relevant policy issues for BOP innovation
-A framework for BOP innovation
-China’s and India’s strategies for BOP innovation
-Conclusion
-References

+ Chapter 5. Incubating the incubation cycle: Two approaches to promoting techno-entrepreneurship in weak institutional environments
-Policy making as an endogenous process
-Emergence of techno-entrepreneurship and its institutional infrastructure: Twin problems of critical mass
-Incubation cycle and its stages
-The traditional approach to the incubation cycle
-Emerging proactive search approach: Initiation and institutionalisation of search networks
-Illustration of the search approach: Creation of institutional infrastructure for venture funding
-Conclusion
-References

+ Chapter 6. Supporting affordable biotechnology innovations: Learning from global collaboration and local experience
-Policies to foster technology adaptation
-Learning from performance measurement
-References

+ Chapter 7. Fostering innovation for green growth: Learning from policy experimentation
-The role of innovation for green growth
-The rationale for innovation policies in a green growth strategy
-Policies for more radical green innovation
-Toward increased global learning from policy experimentation
-References

+ Chapter 8. Making evaluations count: Toward more informed policy
-What is evaluation?
-The promise unfilled
-Putting results to use
-Increasing the prospect of utilisation
-Using programme theory
-Burden of proof: The attribution conundrum
-Implications
-References

+ Chapter 9. Scaling up and sustaining experimental innovation policies with limited resources: Peripheral Schumpeterian development agencies
-Schumpeterian development agencies and rapid-innovation-based competition
-Schumpeterian development agencies in small states
-Constructing a portfolio of high-technology research projects in Finland
-Israel’s ICT evolution
-Conclusion
-References

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