Innovation Policy

Innovation is the product of intentional human endeavor. Countries seeking world-leading innovative enterprises and industries need to implement thoughtful and effective national innovation systems, and supporting policy instruments, to maximize their innovation potential. Reports here review the innovation systems/policies of GTIPA-member nations.

Supporting Financial Innovation Through Flexible Regulation

Policymakers should encourage financial innovation by using regulatory processes and approaches that promote flexible oversight, including stakeholder engagement, coordination, experimentation, alternative supervision, and regtech.

Information Technology and Innovation FoundationMon, 11/04/2019

Productivity and the Financial Services Sector – How to Achieve New Heights

Restrictive rules holding back innovation in the financial sector should be updated to bolster Canada’s productivity. The authors examine the contribution of the financial services sector to Canada’s productivity growth and find it has been underwhelming, considering its potential.

C.D. Howe Institute Thu, 10/17/2019

India Innovation Index 2019

The India Innovation Index examines the innovation ecosystem of Indian states and union territories. The objective of the Index is to help policymakers design policies aimed at driving innovation across regions. For a country as large as India, the state of innovation needs to be understood at the regional level for effective policy formulation.

Institute for CompetitivenessThu, 10/17/2019

Robotics and the Future of Production and Work

The use of robotics will increase productivity and has the potential to bring more manufacturing production work back to developed countries.

Information Technology and Innovation FoundationTue, 10/15/2019

A real innovation agenda for Canada

Canada lags behind other developed nations when it comes to innovation. From declining investments in research and development to a lack of competitive productivity, our economy seems to show clear symptoms of “innovation sickness.”

The Macdonald-Laurier Institute Fri, 10/11/2019

How to unleash Canadian creativity in the digital age

The advent of the digital age has radically changed the way Canadians create and consume cultural content. However, despite the radical changes in economic and technological forces, Canada’s broadcasting and cultural policy frameworks remain stuck in the 1960s.

The Macdonald-Laurier Institute Thu, 09/26/2019

Omission Innovation 2.0: Diagnosing the Global Clean Energy Innovation System

Despite concern over climate change, global carbon emissions continue to rise. Reversing the trend requires clean energy innovation. It is time for Mission Innovation member nations to make good on their commitment to double clean energy R&D.

Information Technology and Innovation FoundationMon, 09/23/2019

How digitisation can be used to educate the low-skilled

The training participation of the low-skilled has increased significantly in recent decades.In order to further strengthen the continuing education participation of semi-skilled and unskilled workers, all stakeholders are in demand: Companies should increasingly offer jobs on which workplace-oriented learning is possible and competences can be acquired.

German Economic InstituteWed, 09/18/2019

Green, Intelligent, and Creative Cities (VIC)

The Green, Intelligent, and Creative Cities (VIC) are living organisms that grow, develop, and evolve to the extent that its residents make them. They must be understood as complex social, economic, and political ecosystems --highly dynamic and subject to the accelerated transformations of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

TicTacMon, 09/02/2019

PIDS Annual Report 2018: Harnessing the Fourth Industrial Revolution

The Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) has released its annual report for 2018 detailing its accomplishments in research, policy recommendation, and collaboration in numerous fields effecting economic outcomes.

The Philippine Institute for Development StudiesWed, 07/10/2019

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