Innovation Policies

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Institute of Public Administration and Regional Studies

Synopsis:

Technological, entrepreneurial, social, and institutional innovationes are a key factor helping societies to adapt to quickly changing external conditions. The ability to innovate depends on a number of slow-to-change factors like education, institutional quality, research infrastructure, entrpreneurial spirit. Policy framing offers a much more flexible, yet also vital, point of intervenstion. This entails ensuring good communication channels between various sectors (triple/quadruple helix model), regulatory environment, and prioritization of results. The latter can aim to foster competitiveness and regional development (smart specialization), societal missions (Mariana Mazzucato) or wellbeing and quality of life (regionak value theory). There are both synergies and tensions among those approaches so innovation policies at both national and local level can bring very different results.

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Syllabus of lectures:

Introduction to innovation policies and defining the main approaches (6 weeks)

Working with real world policies and their results (5 weeks)

Case studies, interaction with other policies, project preparation and presentation (3 weeks)

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Study Objective:

Upon successful completion, students will be able to:

Differentiate between current approaches to innovation policies and discuss their strengths and weaknesses

Compare possible approaches and strategies of various institions and firms

Compare policies of various national and regional governments

Analyze results of the policies beyond basic generic indicators like number of patents

Connect thinking about innovations with other public interests like development, competitiveness, green transition

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No time-table has been prepared for this course

The course is a part of the following study plans:

• B-EM-P prezenční studium od 20/21 (compulsory elective course)
• B-EM-P prezenční studium od 21/22 (compulsory elective course)