Environmental regulations have consistently been found to spur innovation in ‘clean' technologies, with one significant … effect on innovation. Several explanations have been offered, including secondary market failures and a lack of polluter …, contrary to past experience, encouraged innovation rather than adoption. I discuss how these contrasting findings can be …

This book develops new theoretical perspectives on the economics and politics of innovation and knowledge in order to … how each of them builds and controls its own corporate innovation system. It presents an analysis of a new form of … governments trying to regulate intellectual monopolies and attempting to build stronger national innovation systems. It is within …

Contents: 1. Technology and innovation policy: Setting the stage -- 2. Technology policies to enhance private-sector r … policy environment -- 6. Technology policies to leverage public-sector r&d -- 7. Global innovation systems -- 8. Toward a … technology/innovation policy ecosystem -- Index. …