The limits of capital: Transcending the public financer–private producer split in industrial R&D

Beyond the “Innovation's Black-Box”: Translating R&D outlays into employment and economic growth

“…If the main goal is to improve overall RIS quality, mediumtechnology manufacturing has a much greater impact than hightech production because it supports the establishment of local synergies by increasing UniversityeIndustryeGovernment 'stickiness' within a cluster or geographical unit [17,33,36,100,140]. Hightech manufacturing, in contrast, does not provide 'structure' to local knowledge environments because, apart from being small-scale, it focuses on internal, centralised and 'globalised' production within multinational corporations, often taking the form of spin-offs of highly specialised research institutions and involving global markets more than local human capital or knowledge sources [10,100].…”

“…Based on this literature and theoretical framework a broad range of explanatory factors of the production of new knowledge could be defined. Furthermore, the innovation evolutionary approach underpins e besides the regional context e the institutional framework [33,85,128] and the fact that its outcomes depend on a broad heterogeneous number of constructs [14,15,113,114]. It is precisely these differential effects of specific RIS 'subsystems' that make it difficult to operationalise innovationenhancing programs, for policy purposes, as dynamic systems, such as those in question, tend to be highly interdependent, as noted by Uyarra [146, p. 116].…”

Mission critical: the ends, means, and design of innovation agencies

“…More recent work, however, suggests that these developments challenge private sector actors as well (Weiss, 1998). Policymakers thus retain an integral role, not only in the delivery of high-quality public goods but also by connecting actors and defining markets (Rodrik, 2007;Schrank and Whitford, 2009;Breznitz and Zehavi, 2010;Mazzucato, 2013). The literature on innovation studies, for example, suggests that government agencies have contributed constructively to the performance of leading innovators from Israel (Breznitz, 2007b) to the United States (Weiss, 2014).…”

Double Bind: Governing the Economy in an ICT Era

“…Often, governments invest in the stimulation of R&D projects by “their” national companies in the hope that these will translate to new jobs and industries created within the national borders. However, those same supposedly national firms then often locate the downstream activities, where job creation and economic growth benefits might be maximized, in other places, locations that offer unique advantages that have very little to do with novel product innovation (Breznitz 2007b; Breznitz and Zehavi 2010). To compete, places and firms must both develop competencies and assets that allow them to retain high value‐added activities and good jobs (Zysman et al.…”