Correction to: Innovation policy mix: mapping and measurement

Innovation surveys and innovation policy

The Fiscal-monetary Policy Mix

In the early postwar years, during the heyday of fiscal fine-tuning, monetary policy was not widely considered a particularly interesting or important topic. The predominant view was that the main function of monetary policy was to “stimulate” debt-financed purchases by keeping interest rates low. Inflation was first considered a useful lubricant to be traded for lower unemployment, and inflati...

science, technology and innovation policy

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Competition Policy and Innovation

The question addressed by the paper is whether standard procedures and widely accepted insights of competition policy remain valid when one deals with potentially anti-competitive conduct in innovative industries. The question of appropriateness arises because competition in these industries displays features that are radically different from those encountered in traditional sectors of the econ...

Industry Policy as Innovation Policy

Many innovation policy programs of both national and state governments in Australia are implicitly or explicitly directed at seeking to transform the industrial structure of the economies to which they are applied, so that some types of industries gain prevalence (i.e. grow or create jobs) relative to other types of industry. Queensland’s Smart Queensland: Smart State Strategy 20052015, for exa...