Public R&D and social challenges: What lessons from mission R&D programs?

By Dominique Foray, David C. Mowery, Richard R. Nelson. 2012

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► Explains the context and the motivations for this Special Issue. ► Provides a summary of each paper of the Special Issue. ► Draws on the papers some guidelines for policy design.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality

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Innovation Policy for Grand Challenges. An Economic Geography Perspective (2015, background): “…consideration: “the global nature of technological solutions means that the institutional, economic and/or industrial settings within which these solutions are deployed will be enormously diverse, requiring a great deal of ‘localized’ adaptation of these solutions” (Foray et al. 2012, p. 1701).”
Mission-oriented innovation policies: challenges and opportunities (2018, positive): “—governments have the opportunity to determine the direction of growth by making strategic investments throughout the innovation chain and creating the potential for greater spillovers across multiple sectors, including low-tech sectors (Foray et al., 2012).”
From smart specialisation to smart specialisation policy (2014, background): “This is consistent with Foray (2009) and Foray et al. (2012) arguing that much of the discourse of economic policy making has been radically out of step with reality.”
Financing Renewable Energy: Who is Financing What and Why it Matters (2018, positive): “…by the public sector also beyond the R &D stage (Mazzucato, 2013) in areas like space, health and low carbon technology has resulted in the creation of whole new sectors, often through mission-oriented projects that were actively decided upon by those who provided the finance (Foray et al., 2012).”
How do business model and health technology design influence each other? Insights from a longitudinal case study of three academic spin-offs (2014, background): “Considering that innovation is key to the sustainability of ealthcare systems, which arguably falls among today’s “Grand hallenges” (Foray et al., 2012), policymakers may revisit whether ostering academic entrepreneurship in healthcare can, in practice, eliver the long-term economic benefits they ar”
Demand, challenges, and innovation. Making sense of new trends in innovation policy (2018, background): “In dealing with grand societal challenges, policymakers often seem to regard large-scale, centralised R&D projects as archetypes of instruments (Foray et al. 2012).”
Next-Generation Innovation Policy and Grand Challenges (2018, background): “This point has been made before (Foray et al. 2012; Joint Institute for Innovation Policy 2012), but we want to pursue it further.”
Agglomeration, clusters, and industrial policy (2013, background): “Foray et al. (2012, p. 67) suggest that ‘due to their inherent capability to support cooperation . . . clusters are powerful instruments to foster industrial competitiveness, innovation and regional growth’.”
Three frames for innovation policy: R&D, systems of innovation and transformative change (2018, background): “Public investment on its own will not bring about the necessary system transformation (Kuhlmann and Rip, 2014; Foray et al., 2012).”
The impact of environmental policy instruments on innovation: A review of energy and automotive industry studies (2014, background): “One implication of this definition is that we, in contrast to Foray et al. (2012), focus on policies implicitly or explicitly aiming at the development, commercialization and early adoption of new technologies (including further performance enhancement and process development), rather than on policy”
Beyond market failures: the market creating and shaping roles of state investment banks (2016, neutral): “innovation (STI) studies that looked at mission-oriented policies (see, for instance, Mowery, 2010; Foray et al., 2012).”