Innovation Policies

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Institute of Public Administration and Regional Studies

Synopsis:

Technological, entrepreneurial, social, and institutional innovations 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 intervention. 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 (regional 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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Upon successful completion, students will be able to:

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

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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The course is a part of the following study plans:

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