investment, Ireland scores high in international innovation scoreboards. Overall, policies to boost innovation and … jobs. While Ireland has made good progress towards building up its scientific capabilities, innovation capacity remains … effective, the innovation strategy should be simplified, with a drastic reduction in the number of government agencies involved …

(innovation) with easy to measure activities (routine) is particularly costly, since it will either lead to misallocation of … and to financial constraints imposed by capital markets, both of which are hostile to innovation. …

of highly valued products. In so doing, we suggest an innovation policy framework based on two pillars: (i) the … economy. We argue that the latter area has been overlooked in the policy discussion and that a coherent innovation policy …

A good framework for investment in innovation can contribute to increasing Chile’s growth potential. Spending on R&D is … currently low in relation to GDP and heavily reliant on government financing. Innovation activity in the business sector is also … mining tax introduced in May 2005, and to create a National Innovation Council. The effectiveness of these measures will …

The Hungarian government has recently been focusing on innovation policy as part of a wider campaign to improve the … and informal R&D activity as well as ensuring Hungary benefits from the international diffusion of innovation. In … examining specific innovation policies, the new National Innovation System is described and an assessment is made of the …