Innovation policy can be a powerful tool to navigate our economies through the twin transition towards a sustainable and digital society. It encompasses a range of strategies and regulations designed to foster innovation by, e.g., incentivizing R&D, enabling university-industry collaborations, or facilitating cross-industry knowledge transfer. Innovation Policy hence plays a critical role in addressing pressing societal challenges, such as climate change, healthcare, poverty, and inequality by creating the framework conditions for a successful innovation system.

The lecture covers the following aspects:

• Development, economics and governance of science, technology and innovation (STI) policies at national, international and supranational level
• Counteracting market and system failures through innovation policy
• Analysis of supply-side policy instruments, e.g. entrepreneurship, R&D financing, and technology transfer
• Analysis of demand-side instruments, e.g. education, regulation, and public procurement

The first lecture is open and does not require registration. Click here to enroll to the ISIS course and retrieve the details for the first lecture. All relevant information regarding the first lecture, course organization as well as lecture material will be available via ISIS in the first week of the semester. Course registration will take place in the first week of the semester. The procedure will be explained in the first lecture and the ISIS course.