There is nothing in the logic of innovation that leads to emphasizing the supply of or the demand for novel ideas. Arguing for either side is misguided. The two sides are complementary. Thus, we welcome the balanced view implied in Finland’s new innovation strategy (Aho et al., 2008), although...

Despite the fact that the distributional impact of innovation has been recognized in the social science literature, hardly any work has been done on the distributional politics of innovation policy. This study offers a first step in this direction as well as asking whether a government’s...