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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