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...

Executive Summary Information and communication technologies now enable firms to collect detailed and potentially intrusive data about their customers both easily and cheaply. Privacy concerns are thus no longer limited to government surveillance and public figures' private lives. The empirical literature shows that privacy regulation may affect the extent and direction of data-based innovation...

Unpredictability has two main sources: epistemic uncertainty and ontological unpredictability. When disruptive and downstream innovation become frequent, ontological unpredictability becomes increasingly important for innovation policy and strategy. The analysis of the nature of ontological unpredictability explains why future-oriented technology analysis and foresight frequently fails to grasp...

The article addresses the problem of how to create sustainable change in health care. It builds on two on-going case studies which examine endeavours to develop system innovations for delivering high quality services more efficiently. The early stages of these innovation processes are studied through the lens of multiple-level model of change. The model suggests that change takes place as the o...

An increased emphasis on the role of innovation as a primary driver of economic growth in contemporary knowledge-based economies has put the politics of innovation processes on the front burner. But just what exactly one thinks should be done depends crucially on the theory of innovation that is adopted. In this contribution, we explore how a view of innovation inspired by complexity theory can...

Grassroots innovations for sustainability are attracting increasing policy attention. Drawing upon a wide range of empirical research into community energy in the UK, and taking recent support from national government as a case study, we apply three distinct analytical perspectives: strategic niche management, niche policy advocacy, and critical niches. Whilst the first and second perspectives ...

Net neutrality is the focus of an important policy debate that is tied to technological innovation, economic development, and information access. We examine the role of human values in shaping the Net neutrality debate through a content analysis of testimonies from U.S. Senate and FCC hearings on Net neutrality. The analysis is based on a coding scheme that we developed based on a pilot study i...

Evaluation studies of the Bayh-Dole Act are generally concerned with the pace of innovation or the transgressions to the independence of research. While these concerns are important, I propose here to expand the range of public values considered in assessing Bayh-Dole and formulating future reforms. To this end, I first examine the changes in the terms of the Bayh-Dole debate and the drift in i...

Small businesses occupy a signifi cant role in policy debates. This paper reviews evidence relating to tax policy, small businesses, innovation, and entrepreneurship. We provide background information on the small business sector and alternative business defi nitions. We examine evidence suggesting that job growth and innovation tends to occur in young fi rms, which typically start off small, r...