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• Policy from ideas to implementation : essays in honour of Professor G. Bruce Doern / Leslie A. Pal, Michael J. Prince, and Glen Toner
• Bruce the builder / John A. Chenier
• The accidental theorist : key themes in G. Bruce Doern's approach to the policy process / Leslie A. Pal -- The policy roles of central agencies : Bruce Doern's original ideas / Peter Aucoin
• Self-regulation, exhortation, and symbolic politics : gently coercive governing? / Michael J. Prince
• New directions and old dilemmas : taxation as an instrument of public policy / Allan M. Maslove
• Science advisory mechanisms in Canada : an institutional analysis / Jeffrey S. Kinder
• Policies of culturing science and technology in Canada / Markus Sharaput
• Digital state 2.0 / Sanford Borins
• Canada-United states energy relations : from domestic to North American energy policies / Monica Gattinger
• Policy making in the indeterminate world of energy transitions : carbon capture and storage as technological transition or enhanced carbon lock in / James Meadowcraft and Matthew Hellin
• Growing the children of Brundtland : the creation and evolution of the NRTEE, IISD, CESD, and SDTC / Serena Boutros, Lillian Hayward, Anique Montambault, Laura Smallwood, and Glen Toner.

Assembling an informed group of scholars, this volume focuses on the study and practice of central agencies, regulation, budgeting, energy and science policy, and governing instruments. A overview that looks beyond Doern's tremendous body of work, Policy: From Ideas to Implementation is also a survey of the methods and central issues of the Canadian and international public policy disciplines.
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Across Asia there is a keen interest in the potential advantages of America's market-led system of voluntary standards and its contribution to US innovation leadership in complex technologies. For its proponents, the US tradition of bottom-up, decentralized, informal, market-led standardization is a "best practice" model for innovation policy. Observers in Asia are, however, concerned about possible drawbacks of a standards system largely driven by the private sector. This study reviews the historical roots of the American system, examines its defining characteristics, and highlights its strengths and weaknesses. A tradition of decentralized local self-government has given voice to diverse stakeholders in innovation. However, a lack of effective coordination of multiple stakeholder strategies constrains effective and open standardization processes. Asian countries seeking to improve their standards systems should study the strengths and weaknesses of the American system. Attempts to replicate the US standards system will face clear limitations--persistent differences in Asia's economic institutions, levels of development, and growth models are bound to limit convergence to a US-style market-led voluntary standards system.

• Introduction-- M.A.Heldeweg & E.Kica PART I: GENERAL ANALYSIS OF THE REGULATION AND TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION RELATIONSHIP Regulation for Innovation: a Comparative Inquiry into a Regulatory Pair of Twins-- A.Brack Regulation, Technological Innovation and the Roots of Comparative Advantage-- S.Donnelly Legal Design of Smart Rules & Regimes: Regulating Innovation-- M.Heldeweg Regulating Technological Innovation Through Informal International Law: the Exercise of International Public Authority by Transnational Actors-- R.Wessel PART II: SPECIFIC EXEMPLARY AREAS AND CONNECTED ISSUES OF REGULATING TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION The Unlikely Emergence of Next Generation Networks in the Light of Prevailing Tele-com Regulation-- L.Broos Deutsche Telekom and Pacific Bell v LinkLine: Does Competition Law Have a Place in Regulated Industries? M.Holterman Is Europe Turning into a 'Technological Fortress'? Innovation and Technology for the Management of EU's External Borders: Reflections on FRONTEX and EUROSUR-- L.Marin Regulating Public-private Modalities for Organising Technological Innovations in the Energy Sector-- M.Sanders PART III: EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES AND TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION: REGULATORY ISSUES, ACTORS AND PATENTS Transnational Regulation of Nanotechnology: Institutional Diversity in Agenda Setting and State Support-- N.Chowdhury The European Patent System: Emerging Technologies, the Patent Quality Challenge and Mechanisms to Deal with it-- E.Kica Regulatory and Policy Impact on the Use of Existing Patents to Enhance Technological Innovation in the Single Market of the European Union-- V.Rodriguez Conclusion-- M.Heldeweg & E.Kica.
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Acollection of essays concerning the relationship between regulation and technological innovation. It represents an academic exchange of ideas on the realities and challenges of regulating technological innovation and examines the regulatory issues of fostering technological innovation and its applications. The authors combine this with legal, economic and administrative science perspectives. The book provides answers to important questions including the following. * What type of regulatory framework would best fit the needs of technology and innovation developments? * What competences or authorities should be given to the regulatory actors and other stakeholders to shape the future paths of technology innovation? * What lessons can we distil from other regulatory fields and how we can apply what we have learnt to further enhance the development of technology innovation?
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• Overall assessment and recommendations
• Performance and framework conditions for innovation
• Main features of the innovation system
• Government innovation policy.

This report assesses the current status of Korea's innovation system and policies, and identifies where and how the government should focus its efforts to improve the country's innovation capabilities. It finds that Korea has one of the highest rates of spending on R&D in the world, much of which is performed by private firms. It also has a highly educated labor force - as signaled by its impressive PISA performance and exceptionally high rates of tertiary level graduation - with a strong interest in science and technology. However, a number of bottlenecks persist that hamper Korea's economic convergence with the leading OECD economies. These include a relatively weak SME sector and weak performance in services, as well as lagging capacities to conduct leading-edge research in many areas. Furthermore, Korea faces numerous threats in the mid term, notably increased levels of competition from China and other newly-industrializing economies, the lowest fertility rate in the OECD and an aging society, and a continuing high dependency on imports of natural resources, particularly hydrocarbons. In the shorter term, the economic crisis offers its own challenges, with the need for some policy adjustments to deal with expected falls in business investment in R&D and growing levels of unemployment among the highly skilled.--Publisher's description.

• Contents:IntroductionPART I: INFORMING INNOVATION POLICY: MEASUREMENT ISSUES1. Innovation Surveys and Policy: Lessons from the CISAnthony Arundel, Cati Bordoy, Pierre Mohnen and Keith Smith2. Innovation Scoreboards: Indicators and Policy UseAnthony Arundel and Hugo Hollanders3. Benchmarking Regions in the Enlarged Europe: Diversity in Knowledge Potential and Policy OptionsTheo Dunnewijk, Hugo Hollanders and Rene Wintjes4. How do Social Capital and Government Support Affect Innovation and Growth? Evidence from the EU Regional Support ProgrammesSemih Akcomak and Bas ter WeelPART II: IMPROVING INNOVATION POLICY: STRATEGIC ISSUES5. Innovation Governance in Dynamic Economies: Lessons from the OECD MONIT ProjectSvend Otto Remoe6. Innovation Policy for the Environment in the Netherlands and the EUAlbert Faber, Rene Kemp and Geert van der Veen7. Priority Setting in Technology Policy - Historical Developments and Recent TrendsHelmut Gassler, Wolfgang Polt and Christian Rammer8. Innovation Policy, Innovation in Policy: Policy Learning Within and Across Systems and ClustersClaire Nauwelaers and Rene Wintjes9. Innovation Policy in a Post-Lisbon Europe: Some ReflectionsLuc SoeteConclusionIndex.
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This book aims to increase our knowledge of innovation policy by combining quantitative and qualitative assessments of innovation systems, and by adopting a progressive outlook on the conditions for an innovative Europe of tomorrow. Based on the latest developments in innovation research, the authors aim to draw practical and workable conclusions for policymakers.The first part of the book discusses the use of indicators to inform policy- making, progressively shifting emphasis from traditional to less traditional measures and from the national to the regional dimension. The second part investigates the internal dynamics of policy-making and explores the conditions to improve the effectiveness of innovation policies in Europe. New developments and challenges for the future are identified throughout, including the crucial problem of how to align existing institutions with potential challenges. In this way the book clearly demonstrates how the quality of policy governance will become an increasingly important driver for innovation performance of knowledge societies in Europe. The book will have considerable appeal to innovation policymakers, and will also be of interest to academics and researchers working on innovation and knowledge systems.
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• Economic performance and framework conditions for innovation
• Innovation actors in Norway
• The role of government.

The strategic task ahead for the Norwegian government is to maintain high, sustainable growth even after the depletion of oil and gas reserves. Any foreseeable restructuring of the Norwegian economy compatible with this goal will entail a shift towards knowledge-based activities for which innovation is the key determinant of competitiveness. This report assesses the current status of Norway's innovation system and policies, and identifies where and how the government should focus its efforts to improve the country's innovation capabilities.--Publisher's description.