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The choice of innovation policy instruments
Abstract
The purpose of this chapter is to discuss the different types of instruments of innovation policy, to examine how governments and public agencies in different countries and different times have used these instruments differently, to explore the political nature of instrument choice and design (and associated issues), and to elaborate a set of criteria for the selection and design of the instruments in relation to the formulation of holistic innovation policy. The chapter argues that innovation policy instruments must be designed and combined into mixes that address the problems of the innovation system. These mixes are often called ‘policy mixes’, though we prefer the term ‘instrument mix’. The wide combination of instruments into such mixes is what makes innovation policy ‘holistic’.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Borrás, S., & Edquist, C.
- Venue
- Technological Forecasting and Social Change
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2013-10
- Volume
- 80
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 1513-1522
- ISSN
- 0040-1625 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2047016160
- Cited by
- 890
- References
- 28
- FWCI
- 97.75
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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