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Industrial Policy

Industrial Policy

Industrial Policy

The Coevolution of Public and Private Sources of Finance for Important Emerging and Evolving Technologies
Kenneth I. Carlaw, University of British Columbia, Okanagan
Richard G. Lipsey, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia
July 2022
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    Dismissing industrial policy because 'governments cannot pick winners' is counter-productive. This Element studying selected major innovations illustrates the fact that virtually all major new technologies have been developed by a synergetic cooperation between the public and the private sectors, each doing what it can do best. By examining how R&D is financed, rather than where it takes place, the authors show that the role of the public sector is much more pronounced than is often thought. The nature of the cooperation − who does what − varies with the nature of each innovation so that simple, one-size-fits-all, rules about what each sector should do are suspect. These results are particularly important because they challenge the scepticism in the United states and elsewhere about the importance of industrial policy, a scepticism that threatens to undermine the long-term, and necessary cooperation, between the public and private sectors in promoting growth-inducing innovations.

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    July 2022
    Paperback
    9781009227483
    75 pages
    230 × 152 × 4 mm
    0.16kg
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Policy Implications Of Two Views Of The Economy
    • 3. Concepts and Definitions
    • 4. Case Studies
    • 5. General Lessons
    • 6. Summary
    • Appendix: Bell Labs
    • References.
      Authors
    • Kenneth I. Carlaw , University of British Columbia, Okanagan
    • Richard G. Lipsey , Simon Fraser University, British Columbia