In light of its importance of innovation on the political agenda it is necessary to provide guidance to decision makers … how innovation can effectively be fostered in practice and to disentangle and evaluate the effects of the determinants … suggested by the literature. This thesis focuses on the causal evaluation of three determinants of innovation that can all be …

appraisal of how far current economic analysis and theory can deal with this key policy issue. The Economics of Technology and … innovation and technical change …