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Dismissing industrial policy because ''governments cannot pick winners'' is counter-productive. This Element studying selected major innovations illustrates the fact that virtually all major new technologies have been developed by a synergetic cooperation between the public and the private sectors, each doing what it can do best. By examining how R&D is financed, rather than where it takes place, the authors show that the role of the public sector is much more pronounced than is often thought. The nature of the cooperation - who does what - varies with the nature of each innovation so that simple, one-size-fits-all, rules about what each sector should do are suspect. These results are particularly important because they challenge the scepticism in the United states and elsewhere about the importance of industrial policy, a scepticism that threatens to undermine the long-term, and necessary cooperation, between the public and private sectors in promoting growth-inducing innovations.

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1. Introduction; 2. Policy Implications Of Two Views Of The Economy; 3. Concepts and Definitions; 4. Case Studies; 5. General Lessons; 6. Summary; Appendix: Bell Labs; References.

Industrial Policy

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    A Paperback by Kenneth I. Carlaw, Richard G. Lipsey

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      Publisher Cambridge University Press
      Published 7/14/2022 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9781009227483
      978-1009227483
      ISBN-10 1009227483
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      Economics of industrial organization

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Dismissing industrial policy because ''governments cannot pick winners'' is counter-productive. This Element studying selected major innovations illustrates the fact that virtually all major new technologies have been developed by a synergetic cooperation between the public and the private sectors, each doing what it can do best. By examining how R&D is financed, rather than where it takes place, the authors show that the role of the public sector is much more pronounced than is often thought. The nature of the cooperation - who does what - varies with the nature of each innovation so that simple, one-size-fits-all, rules about what each sector should do are suspect. These results are particularly important because they challenge the scepticism in the United states and elsewhere about the importance of industrial policy, a scepticism that threatens to undermine the long-term, and necessary cooperation, between the public and private sectors in promoting growth-inducing innovations.

      Table of Contents
      1. Introduction; 2. Policy Implications Of Two Views Of The Economy; 3. Concepts and Definitions; 4. Case Studies; 5. General Lessons; 6. Summary; Appendix: Bell Labs; References.

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