Evidence-based portfolios of innovation policy mixes: A cross-country analysis

In the past decade many papers have discussed innovation policies in terms of their design, assessment and impact. Drawing on those contributions, ECOECD STIP Compass suggests a detailed taxonomy with regard to themes, target groups beneficiaries instruments. Implemented web platform, that has promoted an extensive collection information policy initiatives across OECD member countries. Using dataset, this paper we employ identify mixes by referring all dimensions encompassed each initiative, i.e., targets, The evidence-based multidimensional analyses yield typology set topics use conduct cross-country analysis portfolios. Although results are statistically significant, caution is necessary when using them because three main fragilities current version Compass: absence at subnational level; classification largest group beneficiaries, i.e. intermediaries; quality some essential for enhancing analysis. proposed navigation data freely accessible online.