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Up one levelNew Report on Innovation Policy in a Time of Crisis
How can the Obama administration use a new stimulus package to enhance federal innovation policies - thus pushing the American economy forward in a time of economic crisis? A new White Paper, written by Fred Block and Matthew R. Keller, addresses how to implement "stim-novation" policies that foster economic recovery as well as longer-term economic growth.
Where do Innovations Come From?
In a working paper released by the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation, Fred Block and Matthew Keller use a unique data set of award-winning innovative technologies to argue that the nature of the U.S. innovation system has changed dramatically over the last 40 years. While in the 1970s winners of the R&D 100 awards were dominated by large corporations acting alone, in recent years over two-thirds of the winners have come from collaborations involving business and government, including federal labs and federally-funded university research.
America's Stealth Industrial Policy
In a new article posted on the Miller-McCune website, Prof. Fred Block argues that the dominant political rhetoric on the value of "free markets" has helped to obscure the key role of the U.S. government in stimulating innovative technologies and economic development.
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