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Innovation, Democracy and Efficiency: Exploring the Innovation Puzzle within the European Union's Regional Development Policies (Palgrave Advances in Regional and Urban Economics)

Innovation, Democracy and Efficiency: Exploring the Innovation Puzzle within the European Union's Regional Development Policies (Palgrave Advances in Regional and Urban Economics)

Francesco Grillo
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Endogenous growth theory has significantly impacted most of the developing and developed countries, shifting priorities of industrial policies towards innovation. In line with this trend, the European Union significantly increased its budgetary allocation for R&D. However, statistical data show a weak correlation between R&D expenditure and the acceleration of economic growth. Regional innovation policies display divergent returns according to different institutional conditions and policy choices.

Grillo and Nanetti attempt to understand the reasons that lie behind differences in performance. Their results show that better performing innovation strategies require the following factors: clear choices of locally congruent smart specialization; strong capacity of public investment to stimulate additional private investment; clear distribution of responsibilities for decision-making and independence of policy implementation from political interference; and problem solving partnerships amongst innovators, universities, and governments that pre-exist the programmes. These factors point to a relationship between democracy and innovation which is explored throughout this book.
Pages
237
Format
Kindle Edition
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Release
April 08, 2016

Innovation, Democracy and Efficiency: Exploring the Innovation Puzzle within the European Union's Regional Development Policies (Palgrave Advances in Regional and Urban Economics)

Francesco Grillo
0/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
Endogenous growth theory has significantly impacted most of the developing and developed countries, shifting priorities of industrial policies towards innovation. In line with this trend, the European Union significantly increased its budgetary allocation for R&D. However, statistical data show a weak correlation between R&D expenditure and the acceleration of economic growth. Regional innovation policies display divergent returns according to different institutional conditions and policy choices.

Grillo and Nanetti attempt to understand the reasons that lie behind differences in performance. Their results show that better performing innovation strategies require the following factors: clear choices of locally congruent smart specialization; strong capacity of public investment to stimulate additional private investment; clear distribution of responsibilities for decision-making and independence of policy implementation from political interference; and problem solving partnerships amongst innovators, universities, and governments that pre-exist the programmes. These factors point to a relationship between democracy and innovation which is explored throughout this book.
Pages
237
Format
Kindle Edition
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Release
April 08, 2016

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