Instruments for Innovation Support and Their Classification: an Example of Instruments used in European Countries

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Authors

FRÁNKOVÁ Šárka

Year of publication 2016
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on European Integration 2016
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Economics and Administration

Citation
Field Economy
Keywords Innovation Innovation Tools Regional Development Regional Innovation System
Description In the present time it is already clear that innovation is going to play a bigger and bigger role in the national and regional development. Both scholars and gover nments agree that innovation needs to be supported by the public sector and innovation policy becomes one of the most important public policies. There is however a discussion about the best way of creating and implementing innovation policy. Across countri es and regions there are a great number of instruments for innovation support and new ones are still emerging. It is important to summarize and classify them in order to further use them as inspiration for policy makers. The aim of this paper is to make su ch a summarization. It presents a classification of innovation instruments where several viewpoints were considered. It also shows an example of concrete instruments often used in European countries categorized in accordance with the used classification.
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