"This book highlights the concepts of technology financing, technology and innovation management, technology … innovation management and public policy strategies aimed at achieving an innovative economy with effective technology financing … investments and commercialization. It relies on three main approaches: National Innovation Systems (NIS), the Triple Helix Model …

This paper studies the problem of incentivizing an agent in an innovation project when the progress of innovation is … known only to the agent. I assume the success of innovation requires an intermediate breakthrough and a final breakthrough …, conditional on the total level of financing, optimal contracts induce efficient actions from the agent. Second, the reward for …

-- The Framework -- Explaining History -- Systematic Evolutionary Theory -- A Viable Methodological Alternative -- New … Research Directions -- References -- Chapter 2:DEVELOPING INNOVATION CAPABILITY: MEETING THE POLICY CHALLENGE -- Introduction … -- Developing Absorptive Capacity -- Learning to Innovate -- Helping Firms Develop Innovation Capability -- Broadcast Mode -- Agent …