Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Bartzokas, Anthony
Author-Email: bartzokas@intech.unu.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: United Nations University, Institute for New Technologies
Title: Policy Relevance and Theory Development in Innovation Studies 
Abstract: This paper presents a brief review of the evolution of ideas of the
	 Economics of Technological Change in the broad area of industrial structure,
	 innovation dynamics and economic performance. Our emphasis is on contributions
	 which might have policy relevance when it comes to the design and implementation
	 of innovation-related policy. This review provides the general context for the
	 discussion of some of the research findings of the European Commission Targeted
	 Socio-Economic Research (TSER) Programme in the area of national systems of
	 innovation. Finally, the paper explores a number of directions for further work in
	 the area of innovation-related policy oriented research. As a result of recent
	 empirical and analytical work, the institutional and economic aspects that theory
	 and empirical research ought to address are much more clearly defined 
Keywords: Innovations, Technological Change, Economic Theory, Economic Policy 
Series: Discussion Paper
Creation-Date: 2000
Number: 2000-06
File-URL: https://www.merit.unu.edu/publications/discussion-papers/2000-6.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 217 Kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unuint:200006