. Digital technologies offer opportunities to raise firms’ productivity and the population’s well-being. However, wide … productivity gaps between large firms and SMEs and between manufacturing and services weigh on economy-wide productivity, which is … adequate skills and awareness of digital benefits or dangers (online security, cyberbullying, addiction). Promoting innovation …

Innovation policy can be a crucial component of governments' responses to crises. Because speed is a paramount … objective, crisis innovation may also require different policy tools than innovation policy in non-crisis times, raising … distinct questions and tradeoffs. In this paper, we survey the U.S. policy response to two crises where innovation was crucial …

The COVID-19 crisis has starkly illustrated both the strengths and limitations of U.S. biomedical innovation … institutions as deployed to fight a pandemic. These innovation institutions include not just intellectual property law, but also … 2021 through June 2022. While each technology brings its own challenges, we find a number of common innovation …

What is the return to COVID-19 vaccine innovation? This paper seeks to quantify both private and social returns, using … economic costs of containment measures. The calculations reveal high returns to innovation. In the baseline scenario, the … social benefit of vaccine innovation amounts to 70.5 trillion United States (U.S.) dollars globally, exceeding its private …

This paper discusses how countries’ vision for science, technology and innovation (STI) priorities has evolved through …

Research and innovation are widely agreed to be major driving forces behind long-term productivity and economic growth … the impact of publically financed R&D on productivity. The conclusions have implications for government innovation … policies, providing insight into possible productivity gains from funding reallocations. Specifically, the findings suggest …

innovators from high-productivity firms. These findings suggest that innovation subsidies contribute to economic renewal and the …The bulk of innovation subsidies in Finland are allocated to firms in industries where the employment share of … among young firms. At the firm level, an increase in innovation subsidies is typically associated with an inflow of …

ultimately affect innovation and productivity in Uruguayan service firms compared to manufacturing firms. The results show that …Several studies have highlighted information and communications technology (ICT) as a driver of firm productivity in …-technological (e.g., organizational or marketing) innovations. ICT and other innovation investments are positively associated with …