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.

LACK OF INNOVATION IS CRIPPLING MARITIME RECOVERY

Implementing changes to bolster a more entrepreneurial culture will take time, but less than the decades already wasted on government efforts to boost innovation through the supply of purported inputs, writes Philip Cross.

The Macdonald-Laurier Institute Mon, 09/21/2020

Learn to Code The Challenges of Creating Mass Employment in Our Digital World

In January 2019 internet trolls took to Twitter to taunt recently fired journalists with some advice: “Learn to Code!” It was a shot at American “elites” who were deemed dismissive of blue-collar workers whose jobs are disappearing. The trolls caustically suggested a more promising future could be found in other fields with more growth potential in the digital era.

The Bertelsmann Foundation (North America) Thu, 09/17/2020

Geneva Network Contribution to the EC’s Pharmaceutical Strategy Roadmap

This letter briefly elaborates four areas we believe the Roadmap should focus on in order to retain Europe’s competitiveness and ensure health-related innovation meets the future needs of Europe’s population.

Geneva NetworkWed, 09/16/2020

Digitalization of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the Mediterranean

Micro, Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) are the spine of Euro-Mediterranean economies. In the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean (SEMED) countries, they account for over 90-95% of all firms in absolute figures (OECD, 2018; IMF, 2019), of which the majority are micro-enterprises (e.g. in Tunisia, micro-enterprises represent 98% of all firms [World Bank, 2014]). Notwithstanding their contribution to private sector development, their role in job creation and upward mobility is much more limited.

Center for Social and Economic Research Wed, 09/16/2020

Assessing Colombian Government Websites

Citizens and businesses rely on government websites to access important information and services. Unfortunately, many Colombian government websites fail to meet basic website standards for security, speed, mobile friendliness, and accessibility.

Information Technology and Innovation FoundationWed, 09/16/2020

Assessing Colombian Government Websites

Citizens and businesses rely on government websites to access important information and services. Unfortunately, many Colombian government websites fail to meet basic website standards for security, speed, mobile friendliness, and accessibility.

TicTacWed, 09/16/2020

An Entrepreneurial Canada? Understanding Canada’s Chronic Lack of Innovation and How We Can Fix It”

As the Canadian economy recovers from the devastation wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown, Canada’s ability to return to normal quickly depends upon our ability to lead as innovators. Yet we also face a significant hurdle to achieving a full recovery – namely, Canada’s persistent lagging when it comes to innovation.

In MLI’s new report, titled “An Entrepreneurial Canada? Understanding Canada’s Chronic Lack of Innovation and How We Can Fix It,” Munk Senior Fellow Philip Cross makes the case that Canada’s failure to foster innovation comes down to a failure to embrace “creative destruction” – that is, the process of economic transformation whereby the old systems and structures of the economy are destroyed as new systems are introduced.

The Macdonald-Laurier Institute Tue, 09/15/2020

Regulating Wholesale Internet Rates: Let’s Stop

In Canada, if regulation doesn’t work, the answer always seems to be more regulation. And so it is now with wholesale internet rates.

C.D. Howe Institute Mon, 09/14/2020

The impact of governmental innovation aid with collaboration requirements

We have evaluated the impact of the Swedish Innovation Agency’s (Vinnova) innovation programs 2010-2012 with collaboration requirements on the turnover of smaller companies and the number of employees, during and after the program. The results show positive effects on the turnover of participating companies.

Swedish Agency for Growth Policy AnalysisWed, 09/09/2020

Industrial policy in Germany

Although the manufacturing industry forms the principal economic basis for the country’s prosperity and employment, the industrial policy does not have a good reputation in Germany. This is because the term is usually used to mean selective state intervention in individual markets and sectors, or on behalf of individual companies, rather than the creation of a general regulatory framework in which industry can flourish.

German Economic InstituteTue, 09/08/2020

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