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Handbook of Innovation and Regulation

9781800884465 Edward Elgar Publishing

Edited by Pontus Braunerhjelm, Professor of Economics, Department of Industrial Economics and Management, KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Blekinge Institute of Technology, and Research Director, The Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum, Martin Andersson, Professor, Department of Industrial Economics, Blekinge Institute of Technology and CIRCLE, Lund University, and Research Director, The Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum, Sweden, Knut Blind, Professor of Innovation Economics, Faculty of Economics and Management, Technische Universität Berlin and Head of the Business Unit Innovation and Regulation, Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI, Karlsruhe, Germany, and Johan E. Eklund, Chief Economist, Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Southern Sweden, Professor of Economics, Jönköping International Business School and Professor of Industrial Economics, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden

Publication Date: 2023 ISBN: 978 1 80088 446 5 Extent: 428 pp

This comprehensive Handbook presents thoughtful analysis on how regulations can impact innovation within a number of regulatory fields and markets, and provides a greater understanding of regulatory complexity and the challenging task it presents for future research.

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This comprehensive Handbook presents thoughtful analysis on how regulations can impact innovation within a number of fields and markets, and provides a greater understanding of regulatory complexity and the challenging task it presents for future research.

The Handbook of Innovation and Regulation embraces some of the key policy areas such as the regulation of markets, critical sectors, and global and regional aspects, focussing particularly on those regulations which target innovation. Reviewing these often interconnected policy areas in terms of both macroeconomic and microeconomic issues, this Handbook expertly studies how regulations in differing fields can affect innovative activities. By placing innovation centre stage, the contributors emphasise the direct and indirect effects of imposed regulations. Further, they illustrate the critically important overall impact of innovation to make firms competitive, promote economic growth and increase societal welfare.

Addressing research and policy challenges, this Handbook would be an excellent resource for academics in regulatory economics, innovation and entrepreneurship, international trade, regional economics as well as environment and digitisation and policymakers in both national and international organisations.

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‘This Handbook offers new insights into the important question of how policy officials can best encourage welfare-enhancing innovation. Relying on rigorous theory, research, and evidence, it provides a nuanced but applied and accessible evaluation of how regulations can support or hinder emerging products and practices in a range of sectors and areas.’
– Susan Dudley, The George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center, US

‘This book provides a thoughtful examination of the complicated and sometimes unexpected relationships between regulation and innovation. It is an excellent read for policy makers and scholars who must weigh the forms, design, and trade-offs of regulation for an innovative society.’
– Sameeksha Desai, Indiana University, US

Contributors

Contributors: Carlo Altomonte, Martin Andersson, Pierluigi Angelino, Ezgi Ari, David Audretsch, Jeremy de Beer, Pontus Braunerhjelm, Knut Blind, Kenneth J. Button, Dirk Czarnitzki, Robert Eberhart, Håkon Endresen Normann, Johan Eklund, Jan Fagerberg, Kun Fu, Mads Greaker, Malcolm Harbour, Birgitte Hovdan, Maurice Kugler, Oishee Kundu, Stephanie Lang, Hans Lind, Maria Luisa Mancusi, Martin Mandorff, Maria Minniti, Sten Nyberg, Raquel Ortega-Argiles, Almantas Palubinskas, Jacques Pelkmans, David C. Popp, Andrea Renda, Andreas Pyka, Nikolaus Thumm, Elvira Uyarra, Sacha Wunsch-Vincent

Contents

Contents:

1 Handbook of Innovation and Regulation: introductory chapter 1
Pontus Braunerhjelm, Martin Andersson, Knut Blind and Johan E. Eklund

PART I MARKETS, REGULATIONS AND INNOVATION
2 Innovation and market structure: policy implications 22
David B. Audretsch
3 The influence of regulation on technological innovation and entry 33
Maria Minniti and Almantas Palubinskas
4 Testing the envelope: the unanticipated effects of regulations on entrepreneurship 57
Robert Eberhart
5 Labor market regulations, innovation and technological change 70
Pontus Braunerhjelm, Johan E. Eklund and Maurice Kugler
6 Innovation in the informal economy 93
Jeremy de Beer, Kun Fu and Sacha Wunsch-Vincent

PART II REGULATION OF KEY SECTORS: DIGITIZED PLATFORMS, CLIMATE CHALLENGES AND INNOVATION
7 Innovation and competition on digital platforms 119
Martin Mandorff and Sten Nyberg
8 Environmental economics, regulation and innovation 141
Mads Greaker and David Popp
9 Innovation policy, regulation and the transition to net zero 163
Jan Fagerberg and Håkon E. Normann

PART III REGULATION OF KEY INDUSTRIES: URBAN TRANSPORT, BUILDING AND INNOVATION
10 Innovative urban transportation and economic regulation 193
Kenneth Button
11 Innovation and building-related regulations 213
Hans Lind

PART IV GLOBAL AND REGIONAL ASPECTS ON REGULATION, KNOWLEDGE FLOWS AND INNOVATION
12 The overall impact of economic, social and institutional regulation on innovation: an update 230
Knut Blind
13 EU regulation: hindering or stimulating innovation? 263
Andrea Renda and Jacques Pelkmans
14 Barriers to trade and innovation 294
Carlo Altomonte and Maria Luisa Mancusi

PART V SPECIFIC REGULATIONS TARGETING INNOVATIONS
15 R&D tax credits: a review and an econometric study on efficient policy mixes 318
Birgitte Hovdan, Dirk Czarnitzki and Pierluigi Angelino
16 Regulation of patents and the impact on innovation 346
Nikolaus Thumm
17 Innovation-promoting impacts of public procurement 373
Elvira Uyarra, Oishee Kundu, Raquel Ortega-Argiles and Malcolm Harbour
18 Dedicated regulation: translating missions into regulation 396
Andreas Pyka, Ezgi Ari and Stephanie Lang

Index 410