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What's new in the economics of innovation?
Theory, empirics and public policy
International Conference
GAEL organized its second
International Conference on the Economics of Innovation
December 1-2, 2016
World Trade Center. Grenoble
GAEL, Grenoble Applied Econ Lab,, is a joint research unit of INRA, the
University of Grenoble Alpes, CNRS and Grenoble INP. One of its main research
topics is the economics of innovation. GAEL’s researchers use econometrics,
experimental economics, industrial economics and game theory to deal with
issues related to innovation and develop contributions in specific fields such as
the energy or agri-food sectors.
Scientific Report
https://colloque.inra.fr/economics-innovation
What's new in the economics of innovation?
Theory, empirics and public policy
Summary
The International Conference What’s new in the economics of innovation? Theory, empirics and public policy that
took place at the Grenoble World Trade Center on December 1-2, 2016, was the second of the starting series of
GAEL Conference on the economics of innovation. This event brought together more than one hundred scholars
coming from 16 different countries.
The previous conference organized by GAEL in 2013 focused more particularly on « Product differentiation and
innovation in related markets ». This second conference covers more broadly the recent scientific contributions
to the different facets of the economics of innovation that may support policy decisions. The 20 members of the
international scientific committee selected 45 papers for oral presentation organized in 13 parallel sessions. The
program also included 4 keynote lectures by invited speakers and 3 special sessions organized by GAEL
researchers on Innovation in Low carbon technologies, Vertical Relationships, as well as Innovation and the
Evaluation of innovation policies. This program has been shaped to provide theoretical as well as applied
contributions on a wide range of topics that are currently at the frontline of research on innovation and all
constitute new challenges for R&D and innovation public policies.
Several special sessions were devoted to the evaluation of innovation public policies, in connection with the ANR
project « Renewal » coordinated by GAEL. This topical issue was also at the core of the panel discussion (“Round
table”) that concluded the conference and reflected the wish of the GAEL organisers to not only offer thorough
economic analyses based on high quality academic works but also develop exchanges between scholars as well as
public and private practitionners.
The quality of the presentations and discussions that took place during these two days and the numerous messages
received after the conference show the great satisfaction of participants and testify of the scientific success of this
event. This confirms the need in the economics of innovation community for this type of “not too big” and highly
interactive events. The organization of a third conference is expected by most of the presenters.
Tour of the CEA Tech showroom and a presentation of the GIANT innovation campus. The MINATEC Showroom, a catalyst for business innovation.
This visit has been organised on Wednesday November 30 as a pre-conference event. It started with a short presentation of GIANT and MINATEC, followed by a tour of the showroom
of technological transfer.
What's new in the economics of innovation?
Theory, empirics and public policy
What they thought about
« It was a good workshop and I learned many
interesting things. Plus we have some new
ideas »
Maryann Feldman
« Ce fut un plaisir ! Merci de m'avoir donné l'occasion
de parler de ce thème important avec une audience
pleine d'idées ! Il semble bien que l'UGA soit sur le
chemin de devenir un pôle important pour l'analyse
de l'innovation! » Dominique Guellec
« Vous avez réussi à réunir une belle
palette de chercheurs. C'était
stimulant, et je vous encourage à
refaire cet exercice, peut-être pas
chaque année, éventuellement tous les
deux ans » Pierre Mohnen
« Thank you again for organizing a very interesting conference. I found it most interesting. » Asher Lessels
« Je suis très heureux du Colloque sur l'innovation. Les papiers étaient beaux, l'organisation parfaite et la ville de Grenoble agréable. » Luigi Filippini
« I was really impressed by the high level of organization and especially the keynote speakers who were invited. I appreciated a lot the possibility to share my
research with other people and to establish new contacts during the Conference ». Taras Hrendash
« …Pour moi c’était très intéressant ». Yassine Laknech
« J'ai moi-même trouvé la discussion stimulante et riche.. » Claus Habfast
« Intéressant colloque. C'était une bonne occasion d'échanger sur ces nombreux sujets. Et aussi de nouer quelques nouveaux contacts intéressants. » Rémi Lallement
« Sur la table ronde, je suis très content de voir le dialogue se créer entre les chercheurs, les représentants institutionnels, les politiques et les évaluateurs. C’était très intéressant »
Patrick Eparvier
What's new in the economics of innovation?
Theory, empirics and public policy
Keynote speakers at plenary sessions
Robin Cowan
Maryann Feldman
(University of North Carolina):
Regional Entrepreneurial
Pathways.
Matthieu Glachant
(Mines Paris-Tech):
Is green innovation specific?
Dominique Guellec
(Head of the Science and
Technology Policy (STP) Division,
OECD):
Science innovation policies at
the age of digitalization.
Robin Cowan is Professor of the
Economics of Technical Change at the
University of Maastricht, and Professor of
Management at the Faculty of Economics
and Management at the University of
Strasbourg.
Maryann P. Feldman is the Heninger
Distinguished Professor in the
Department of Public Policy at the
University of North Carolina. Her
research and teaching interests focus
on the areas of innovation, the
commercialization
of
academic
research and the factors MF Picture
that promote technological change
and economic growth.
Professor of economics at MINES
ParisTech Director of CERNA - Centre
for industrial economics Visiting
Professor, London School of Economics
and Political Science
Dominique Guellec is Head of the
Science and Technology Policy (STP)
Division, within the Directorate for
Science, Technology and Innovation
(DSTI) of the Organization for
Economic
Co-operation
and
Development (OECD).
(UNU-MERIT, Maastricht and Beta,
Strasbourg):
Organization, affect and
innovation performance:
Interactions between formal and
informal network structures.
What's new in the economics of innovation?
Theory, empirics and public policy
Special sessions
Three special sessions have been organized by GAEL researchers, reflecting some of the main research topics of GAEL.
Special Sessions
Innovation in Low carbon technologies
Contributions to the session were very complementary on the analysis of innovation in green and low carbon
technologies. Two papers on green innovation dealt with the Porter hypothesis:
one claims that what matters is not the type of the policy instrument but rather the perception of the instrument by
firms. The second estimates the impact of the environmental regulation on innovation patterns of upstream firms.
Two other papers were more focused on low carbon technologies but on different issues:
one addressed the potential of low-carbon technologies for future growth and jobs in Europe;
the other computes an index that measures the qualities of low carbon technologies
Vertical Relationships and Innovation
The focus of this session was to provide some theoretical developments on innovation and business relationships.
It aims at showing how the business relationships drive the firms’ incentives to innovate.
It highlights two topics in particular:
the rule of the bargaining over the vertical contract and the rule of the R&D networks.
In this way, two papers clearly showed how the individual power of bargaining of partners impact
both the level of innovation and the level of exclusivity and of contingency of the corresponding contract.
Another paper emphasizes the effect of potential entry on the formation and stability of R&D networks.
Evaluation of innovation policies (ANR Renewal)
This session gathered a dozen papers and offered theoretical contributions
on the rationale for R&D and innovation public policies as well as empirical evaluation studies.
The impact analyses covered various policy instruments (e.g., subsidies programs or tax incentives)
and diverse countries: The Netherlands, Belgium, China, Spain UK and France.
A particular focus was placed on clusters policies
which pertain to the spatial and networking dimensions of innovation
and thereby create methodological challenges for their evaluation.
What's new in the economics of innovation?
Theory, empirics and public policy
Parallel sessions
During the two days of the conference, other communications have been presented, dealing with the following themes:
Normal Sessions
Finance and Innovation;
New drivers of innovation and public policies;
Market, Competition and Innovation;
Collaborative networks and regional dynamics;
Patent and licensing strategies;
Econometrics of innovation;
Developing countries;
Technological dynamics;
Mobility, migration and agglomeration.
What's new in the economics of innovation?
Theory, empirics and public policy
Round table
The site policies and their evaluation: main challenges for research and public action
Concluding this conference, a panel discussion has been organized on the new challenges for the
evaluation of innovation policies, especially “sites policies” recently implemented in France and
elsewhere in the world.
The objective of these policies is to strengthen international visibility of research and improve the
innovation dynamics and its territorial impact on employment as well as other socio-economic factors.
The participants highlighted the importance of cooperation among the stakeholders of the research and
innovation process and the fact that this cooperation is specific to each site.
The multiplicity of the objectives requires multiple and complementary instruments. Participants
recognized that if all the necessary instruments exist, their impact should regularly be evaluated and the
results from these assessment made public. The multiplicity of the instruments and their possible
overlap was also discussed.
With regards to the evaluation process, the multiplicity of the objectives requires a methodology which
captures the degree of cooperation between stakeholders, the measurement of global territorial effects,
the consideration of site specificities, the identification of specific effects of each of the various research
and innovation policies that are superimposed on the territory. Such methods already exist but they
should be enriched with the participation of academics with good expertise in the economics of
innovation as well as the assessment of public policies. There is room for a better coordination between
the administration and the academic researchers in order to share data and implement new evaluation
method.
Animated by Patrick Eparvier, Senior consultant at Technopolis and specialist in the evaluation of research program and plans. With the participation of
Jean-Luc Baudouin, is the director of Research and Development at Adeunis, SME from Grenoble specialised in the IoT (Internet of Things).
Maryann P. Feldman, is the Heninger Distinguished Professor in the Department of Public policy at the University of North Carolina, and acts at the National Science Foundation as
the Science of Science and Innovation Policy (SciSIP) Program Director.NSF).
Claus Habfast, Conseiller municipal de Grenoble, vice-président de Grenoble Alpes Métropole délégué à l'enseignement supérieur, la recherche, l'Europe.
Sacha Kallenbach, is General inspector for education and research administration specialized in public policy evaluation.
Yassine Lakhnech, is the research and valorization executive director at the IdeX University Grenoble Alpes.
Rémi Lallement, is analyst in the Economics Department of France Stratégie, a research-based advisory institution under the authority of the French Prime Minister..
What's new in the economics of innovation?
Theory, empirics and public policy
Participating organizations
INSTITUTION
Austrian Institute of Economic
Research
IWEPS
Bruegel
Université Saint-Louis Bruxelles
Shanghai Institute of Technology
CERGE-EI
University of Economics Prague
Adeunis
CEA LETI
Chaire Economie du Climat
CNRS
Conseiller CESER
Departement Isere
Floralis - UGA
Education and research
administration
France Stratégie
GATE-LSE
Grenoble School of Management
Grenoble-Alpes Métropole
INPG
COUNTRY
AUSTRIA
BELGIUM
CHINA
CZECH
REPUBLIC
FRANCE
INSTITUTION
INRA
COUNTRY
LEREPS - Science Po Toulouse
Université Grenoble Alpes
Université Savoie Mont Blanc
University Lumière - Lyon 2
University of Strasbourg
University of Toulouse Capitole
Ville de Meylan
Tbilisi State University
Max Planck Institute for Innovation and
Competition
United Nations Climate Change
Secretariat
University of Crete
Jawaharlal Nehru University
Università Cattolica del Sacro cuore
IRD
Metropole
MINATEC
MINES ParisTech
Ministère de l'Education Nationale, de
l'Enseignement Supérieur et de la
Recherche
Nanterre Paris Ouest La Défense
Sciences Po Grenoble
Technopolis
Université Côte d'Azur
Université de Bordeaux
Université de Lorraine
Université Jean Monnet Saint-Etienne
INSTITUTION
University of Bologna
FRANCE
University of Ferrara, Italy
University of Torino
University of Turin
Dialogic / Utrecht University
Maastricht University
London School of Economics
University of Oxford
Cardiff University
University of St Andrews
European Commision - Joint Research
Centre
EPFL
Social Sciences
UNC
COUNTRY
GEORGIA
GERMANY
GREECE
INDIA
ITALY
NETHERLANDS
UNITED
KINGDOM
SPAIN
SWITZERLAND
TURKEY
USA
What's new in the economics of innovation?
Theory, empirics and public policy
Partners
The French National Research Agency Projet RENEWAL
50, avenue Daumesnil - 75012 PARIS
http://www.agence-nationalerecherche.fr/?Project=ANR-14-CE29-0005
Région Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes
1 esplanade François Mitterrand
CS 20033 - 69269 LYON CEDEX 02
http://www.auvergnerhonealpes.eu/
Université Grenoble Alpes
CS 40700
38058 GRENOBLE CEDEX 9
http://www.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/en/
National Institute of Agricultural Research
147, rue de l'université
75338 PARIS CEDEX 07
http://www.inra.fr/en/Scientists-Students
Faculté d'Economie de Grenoble
Site de Grenoble
CS 40700
38058 GRENOBLE CEDEX 9
http://economie.upmf-grenoble.fr/
INRA - Social Sciences, Agriculture and Food,
Rural Development and Environment
4 allée Adolphe Bobierre - CS 61103
35011 RENNES CEDEX
http://www.sae2.inra.fr/en