Innovation Policies in Europe and the US : The New Agenda (Paperback)

Contents: Introduction: ideas and the transition from technology to innovation policy; The UK experiment - science, technology and industrial policy in Britain 1979-2000, Margaret Sharp; Public venture capital: the secret life of US science policy, Henry Etzkowitz; On the French system of innovation: between institutional inertia and rapid changes, Dominique Foray; Innovation policy in Finland, Tarmo Lemola; Changes in Danish innovation policy - responses to the challenges of a dynamic business environment, Jesper Lindgaard Christensen; Technology policy learning in The Netherlands 1979-1997, Marianne van der Steen; The internationalization of science and technology policy: Malta case study 1988-1996, Jennifer Cassingena Harper; Running after the international trend: Keynesian power balances and the sustainable repulsion of the innovation paradigm in Austria, Kurt Mayer; Evolution and revolution in policy-making: Hungarian industry, science and technology policy-making, Peter S. Biegelbauer; Socio-economic transition and new challenges for the science and technology policy in Slovenia, Franc Mali; The Italian system of innovation: the gradual transition from a weak ’mission-oriented’ system to a regionalized learning system, Fiorenza Belussi; How do economic ideas become relevant in RTD policy-making? lessons from a European case study, Jakob Edler; Conclusion: policy changes, actors, institutions and learning; List of authors; Index.