Economics of innovation seminar

1. Economics of innovation Seminar

Vitaliy Roud,
ISSEK HSE
[email protected]
Moscow, 6 October 2016

2. Essays: 8 groups

1. Innovation-based growth and the innovation
imperative
2. Innovation at company level
3. Types of innovation
4. Innovation in the larger enterprises
5. Knowledge production and R&D sector
6. Innovation in industries
7. Framework conditions
8. Social dimension of innovation
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3. 1. Innovation-based growth and the innovation imperative

1.1. Macroeconomic approaches and their modern
rethinking: from endogenous growth towards new growth
theory
1.2. Evolutionary perspective
1.3. Technological progress in the planned economy (case
of Soviet Union)
1.4. «Empirical pragmatism»: National innovation systems
and the OECD framework for sustainable growth
1.5. Innovation and the Development Studies
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4. 2. Types of innovation in companies

2.1. Shumpeter’s types of innovation
2.2. Radical vs. incremental innovations
2.3. Imitation vs. novelty
2.4. Technological innovations: new products vs. new
processes
2.5. Nontechnological innovations
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5. 3. Innovation as an activity

3.1. Innovation-active companies and innovation activities
activities
3.2. Innovation vs. R&D
3.3. Incentives for innovation at the company level
3.4. Innovation and competition
3.5. Models of innovation: linear, chain-linked and beyond
3.6. Technology push vs. demand pull
3.7. Openness of innovation: collaboration with other
organisations/actors
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4. Innovation and the larger enterprises
4.1. Multinationals and their “localized” roles
4.2. State-owned companies
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4.3. Cooperation with smaller actors: technology spin-offs,
networking, etc.
4.4. Business associations and their role in innovation
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processes
4.5. Large-scale public innovation projects:
grand challenges, security, exploration
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5. Knowledge production
5.1. Diversity of university roles
5.2. R&D institutions
5.3. Modern science: global vs. national
5.4. Industry-science linkages
5.5. Corporate R&D
5.6. Global knowledge and technology flows
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6. Sectoral variety of
innovation
6.1. Sources of heterogeneity of innovation in different
sectors
6.2. High-technology sectors as locomotives of growth
6.3. Innovation in low-tech and the “high-tech myopia”
6.4. Innovation in services
6.5. Innovation in agriculture
6.6. Innovation in mining
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7. Framework conditions
7.1. Business environment and innovation climate
7.2. Intellectual property legal framework
7.3. Financial institutions
7.4. Innovation infrastructure
7.5. Political environment and innovation
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8. Social dimension of
innovation
8.1. Public awareness of science, technology and
innovation
8.2. Innovation behavior of population
8.3. User innovation and grassroots innovation
8.4. Social effects of innovation and inclusive
innovation
8.5. Social innovations: architecture of social practices
(e-governance, self-organisation, etc.)
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By October 14-17:
Choose your groups and topics
Submit the list
Be ready to present the key ideas you plan to write
about/ask questions
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Groups 1-4: October, 14
Groups 5-8: October, 17
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Thank you!
[email protected]
Office 443
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