Innovation policy - Innovation systems failure
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Innovative system failure
The opposite of an 'innovative milieu'
- Infrastructural failures (actors/functions needed)
- Institutional failures (IP-rights know how to find them)
- Interaction failures (eachother)
- Capability failures ;; capability; badly trained
What kind of infrastructural failure?
- Lacking or deficient basic infrastructure (roads, telecommunication, business accomodations)
- Lacking or deficient knowledge infrastructure (education, R&D)
- Lacking or deficient financial infrastructure (capital)
What kind of institutional failures?
Bureaucracy, policy can make or break innovations
- hard institutional failures : intellectual property rights failure, short term planning horizons, legislation
- soft institutions failures: lacking entrepreneurial spirit, no innovation culture
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What kind of interaction failures?
- Strong network failure
No fresh look and group think lead to blind spots
No weak ties are exploited
Dominant partners lead to path-dependency and lock-in
- Weak network failure:
Not enough complementarities to learn effectively
Lack of shared vision
What is capabilities failure
- Lacking flexibility, learning potential, and resources to adapt to new challenges, technologies, market demands etc.
- Low 'absorptive capacity
What is rationale for government intervention?
- Public nature of knowledge- not easy to fully protect so low private investment.
- Uncertainty- on supply, consumption, funding, policies
- Complementary assets- but where?
- Network externalities, overcome 'lock-in'
- Market inflexibility- induce institutional change
What parts of innovation policy?
- Finance: equity support; fiscal measures;
- Support for public sector research; grants for industrial R&D
- Services: Information and brokerage support; networking measures
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