This book examines dynamics between demand and innovation and provides insights into the rationale and scope for public policies to foster demand for innovation.

This first policy brief presents an overview of the wide set of demand and supply side innovation policies both within the EU and elsewhere in order to identify, classify and characterize the various measures implemented in different contexts and their combination. It is based on a detailed literature review of demand and supply-side innovation policies and the analysis of 20 international cases of innovation policies, instruments and tools selected as representative of good practices to address demand side and/or to combine or interact with supply side approaches. The cases studies have been selected to cover a large number of countries (in and outside Europe) and sectors (including Health and Energy) and depending on the availability of information (especially of evaluation reports).

This book examines dynamics between demand and innovation and provides insights into the rationale and scope for public policies to foster demand for innovation.

This study examines trends in and key features of policies and programmes used by governments to support innovation in the business sector.

This book focuses on Public Procurement for Innovation. Public Procurement for Innovation is a specific demand-side innovation policy instrument. It occurs when a public organization places an order for a new or improved product to fulfill certain need

There is wide consensus on the importance of knowledge for economic growth and local development patterns. This book proposes a view of knowledge as a collective, systemic and evolutionary process that enables agents and social systems to overcome the challenges of the limits to growth. It brings together new conceptual and empirical contributions, analysing the relationship between demand and supply factors and the rate and direction of technological change. It also examines the different elements that compose innovation systems. The Economics of Knowledge, Innovation and Systemic Technology Policy provides the background for the development of an integrated framework for the analysis of systemic policy instruments and their mutual interaction the socio-political and economic conditions of the surrounding environment. These aspects have long been neglected in innovation policy, as policymakers, academics and the business community, have mostly emphasized the benefits of supply side strategies. However, a better understanding of innovation policies grafted on a complexity-based approach calls for the appreciation of the mutual interactions between both supply and demand aspects, and it is likely to improve the actual design of policy measures. This book will help readers to understand the foundations and working of demand-driven innovation policies by stressing the importance of compent and smart demand.