Experimental Innovation Policy
Chapter in NBER book Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 20 (2020), Josh Lerner and Scott Stern, editors (p. 191 - 232) Experimental approaches are increasingly being adopted across many policy fields, but innovation policy has been lagging. This paper reviews the case for policy experimentation in this field, describes the different types of experiments that can be undertaken, discusses some of the unique challenges to the use of experimental approaches in innovation policy, and summarizes some of the emerging lessons, with a focus on randomized trials. The paper concludes describing how at the Innovation Growth Lab we have been working with governments across the OECD to help them overcome the barriers to policy experimentation in order to make their policies more impactful. This chapter is no longer available for free download, since the book has been published. To obtain a copy, you must buy the book.Order from Amazon.com in hardcover or paperback
You may be able to access the full text of this document via the Document Object Identifier. Machine-readable bibliographic record - MARC, RIS, BibTeX Document Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1086/705644 This chapter first appeared as NBER working paper w26273, Experimental Innovation Policy, Albert Bravo-Biosca |
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