Economics of innovation seminar презентация

Essays: 8 groups
Innovation-based growth and the innovation imperative
Innovation at company level
Types of innovation
Innovation in the larger enterprises
Knowledge production and R&D sector
Innovation in industries
Framework conditions
Social dimension of innovation

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

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

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

4. Innovation and the larger enterprises
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4.1. Multinationals and their “localized” roles
4.2. State-owned companies
4.3. Cooperation with smaller actors: technology spin-offs, networking, etc.
4.4. Business associations and their role in innovation processes
4.5. Large-scale public innovation projects:
grand challenges, security, exploration

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
5. Knowledge production

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

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

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.)

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
Groups 1-4: October, 14
Groups 5-8: October, 17