This report is an account of the relationship between the ERA development and German research and innovation policy (R …&I policy. In the last decade, and accelerated in the recent years, the European research policy and subsequently the innovation … at European level research is no longer a stand-alone approach. Instead, innovation has gained rapidly in importance as a …

The paper discusses demand and demand conditions for innovation as well as demand based policies for innovation in the … demand for innovation – rather than focusing on supply side conditions. This could at the same time be linked to a better … policy mix that tackles the bottlenecks of demand for innovation and supports the articulation of demand can link …

If innovation is to be subsidized, a natural place to start is to increase the quantity and quality of human capital …. Innovation, after all, begins with people. Simply stimulating the "demand side" through R&D subsidies and tax breaks may only … can both directly increase innovation and reduce its cost. This paper examines the evidence on human capital policies for …

Does regulation affect the pace and nature of innovation and if so, by how much? We build a tractable and quantifiable … sharp reduction in the firm's innovation response to exogenous demand shocks for firms just below the regulatory threshold …. We then quantitatively fit the parameters of the model to the data, finding that innovation at the macro level is about 5 …