---
title: "Rationales and Instruments for Public Innovation Policies"
authors:
  - name: "Takalo, Tuomas"
date_published: "2009-05-11"
series: "Discussion Papers no."
series_number: "1185"
language: "en"
publisher: "ETLA Economic Research"
pdf_url: "https://www.etla.fi/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/dp1185.pdf"
identifier: "https://www.etla.fi/julkaisut/id/Discussion-Papers-no.-1185"
---

# Rationales and Instruments for Public Innovation Policies

**Published:** 2009-05-11  
**Categories:** Publikationer  
**Tags:** Diskussionsämnen  
**URL:** https://www.etla.fi/sv/publikationer/dp1185-en/

Economic interest in innovation policy largely arises from the fundamental importance of innovation to social welfare and from well-known inefficiencies in innovation in a competitive market environment. As a result, a wide variety of public innovation policies are used in practice. This report reviews the economic justifications for public innovation policies and compares the existing policy tools, paying particular attention to the Finnish innovation policy environment.

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