The Choice of Innovation Policy Instruments

By S. Borrás, Charles Edquist. Holistic Innovation Policy, 2013

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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’.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Law, Strategy and Management

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The co-evolution of policy mixes and socio-technical systems: Towards a conceptual framework of policy mix feedback in sustainability transitions (2019, background): “, 2009), the elements of the mix (Borrás and Edquist, 2013), the policy strategy (Quitzow, 2015a), as well as overall characteristics of mixes (Howlett and Rayner, 2013; Reichardt and Rogge, 2016) and policy processes (Flanagan et al.”
Innovation policy: What, why, and how (2017, background): “To assist policy-makers, particularly in Europe (European Commission, 2013), a number of different typologies of innovation policy instruments have been suggested (Edler and Georghiou, 2007; Borrás and Edquist, 2013; Edler et al. , 2016 b ; Gök et al. , 2016).”
Conceptual and empirical advances in analysing policy mixes for energy transitions (2017, background): “Finally, the interdisciplinary field of innovation studies has also relatively recently taken a specific interest in questions around the role of policy mixes in promoting technological and other kinds of innovations, with several contributions published over the last decade in Research Policy [39,4”
Innovation Policy: Rationales, Lessons and Challenges (2017, background): “Hence, a policy mix that works in one context is not necessarily equally well suited to another (Flanegan et al., 2011; Borras and Edquist, 2013).”
Innovation and productivity in formal and informal firms in Ghana (2017, neutral): “Innovation should be supported by coordinated multi-sector policy actions that look at firms’ needs (Borrás and Edquist, 2013).”
Public-private partnerships as systemic agricultural innovation policy instruments – Assessing their contribution to innovation system function dynamics (2019, background): “Solving potential systemic problems require appropriate policy mixes and the orchestration of these policy mixes so that individual policies become aligned and may reinforce each other (Borrás and Edquist, 2013; Flanagan et al., 2011; Reichardt and Rogge, 2016).”
Demand, challenges, and innovation. Making sense of new trends in innovation policy (2018, background): “Policy interventions, in principle, are associated with a problem or opportunity that justifies that the state intervenes (Borrás and Edquist 2013).”