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Title Innovation and public policy / edited by Austan Goolsbee and Benjamin F. Jones
Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (259 p.)
Series National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report
National Bureau of Economic Research conference report.
Contents Frontmatter -- National Bureau of Economic Research -- Relation of the Directors to the Work and Publications of the NBER -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 A Calculation of the Social Returns to Innovation -- 2 Innovation and Human Capital Policy -- 3 Immigration Policy Levers for US Innovation and Start- Ups -- 4 Scientific Grant Funding -- 5 Tax Policy for Innovation -- 6 Taxation and Innovation What Do We Know? -- 7 Government Incentives for Entrepreneurship -- Contributors -- Author Index -- Subject Index
Summary Using the latest empirical and conceptual research for readers in economics, business, and policy, this volume surveys the key components of innovation policy and the social returns to innovation investment. In advanced economies like the United States, innovation has long been recognized as a central force for increasing economic prosperity and human welfare. Today, the US government promotes innovation through various mechanisms, including tax credits for private-sector research, grant support for basic and applied research, and institutions like the Small Business Innovation Research Program of the National Science Foundation. Drawing on the latest empirical and conceptual research, Innovation and Public Policy surveys the key components of innovation policy and the social returns to innovation investment. It examines mechanisms that can advance the pace of invention and innovative activity, including expanding the research workforce through schooling and immigration policy and funding basic research. It also considers scientific grant systems for funding basic research, including those at institutions like the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation, and investigates the role of entrepreneurship policy and of other institutions that promote an environment conducive to scientific breakthroughs
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Technological innovations -- Economic aspects -- United States
Technological innovations -- Government policy -- United States
Science and state -- United States
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / General.
Science and state
Technological innovations -- Economic aspects
Technological innovations -- Government policy
United States
Form Electronic book
Author Goolsbee, Austan, editor
Jones, Benjamin F., editor
ISBN 022680559X
9780226805597