Public support for private R&D and innovation is part of most national and regional innovation support regimes. In this paper we estimate the effect of public innovation support on innovation outputs in Ireland and Northern Ireland. Three dimensions of output additionality are considered: extensive additionality, in which public support encourages a larger proportion of the population of firms ...

Pre-publication draft 11 15 2010 (to be revised) Executive Summary Introduction – Objectives, Arguments, Findings I. Standards, Innovation and Economic Development – A Conceptual Framework II. China’s Strategy – Standards as a Tool for Indigenous Innovation III. China’s Dilemma: Globalization and Rising Complexity Constrain National Policies IV. Toward Greater Pragmatism? China’s Recent Policy ...

This report sets out to describe indicators on environmental technological innovation and their usefulness for environment-related STI policy and innovation study. Environmental technological innovations consist of new or modified processes, techniques, systems and products that help to reduce environmental damage. This is a new area for indicator research. In this report we will examine how en...

This is a report from the project Services In Innovation, Innovation In Services – Services in European Innovation Systems (SI4S). This project has been funded by the European Commission, through the Targeted Socio-Economic Research Programme (TSER), within Area I: Evaluation of science and technology policy options in Europe under contract no. ERB-SOE1-CT-96-1015. Contributions of the TSER pro...

Innovation and Drug Reimportation: Cost, Value, and Tradeoffs – Economic, Legal, and Public Policy Implications Based on the proceedings of a University of Michigan Center for Medication Use, Policy and Economics symposium, April 18–20, 2004,Washington, D.C. HIGHLIGHTS • Legislation and Pharmaceutical Reimportation • Price Regulation and Innovation • Price Differentials Between Canada and the U...

How does patent policy affect innovation when patent licensing is crucial for firms? To address this question, the present paper incorporates voluntary patent licensing between an innovator and followers, which has been discussed in the literature of industrial organization, into a dynamic general equilibrium model. Unlike in existing studies, both the licensing fee and the number of licensees ...

Arts (NESTA)-an independent body with the mission to make the UK more innovative. The compendium is organised around 20 innovation policy topics categorised primarily according to their policy objectives. Currently, some of these reports are available. location is an online strategic intelligence tool with an extensive list of references that present evidence for the effectiveness of each parti...