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    Innovation intermediaries as a response to system failures: creating the right incentives

    Russo, M. and Caloffi, A. and Rossi, Federica and Righi, R. (2018) Innovation intermediaries as a response to system failures: creating the right incentives. In: Gråsjö, U. and Karlsson, C. and Bernhard, I. (eds.) Geography, Open Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, pp. 19-42. ISBN 9781786439895.

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    Abstract

    Policymakers worldwide increasingly rely on the funding of innovation intermediaries in order to remedy failures in their innovation systems, including firms’ lack of information about sources of external knowledge and opportunities, lack of adequate competences and skills, lack of productive connections and the lack of formal and informal institutions in the system. To induce intermediaries to satisfactorily address the system failures they are called to confront, policymakers often make their funding conditional on their performance. Building on a case study of publicly funded innovation intermediaries in Tuscany (Italy), we identify several challenges in setting up appropriate performance-based incentives for intermediaries. These involve (i) failure to clearly articulate policy objectives in terms of system failures; (ii) failure to measure the achievement of all policy objectives; and (iii) failure to clearly link performance indicators with policy objectives. Based on the lessons learned from this case, we derive some implications for policy design.

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    Item Type: Book Section
    Additional Information: This draft chapter has been published by Edward Elgar Publishing in 2018
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Business and Law > Birkbeck Business School
    Research Centres and Institutes: Innovation Management Research, Birkbeck Centre for
    Depositing User: Federica Rossi
    Date Deposited: 06 Jun 2019 06:03
    Last Modified: 02 Aug 2023 17:43
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/23225

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