R&D and Innovation Economics and Policy
- Smart specialisation –> Measuring smart specialisation (doc) –> Blog of Dominique Foray on Smart Specialisation
- Structuring a policy response to Grand Challenges –> Swissnex Boston
- Innovation in public services: a cure to the Baumol’s disease? –> Health care costs and the diffusion of medical technologies
- The impact of public funding to R&D
- The economic fundamentals of research evaluation (what are the basic problems?)
- Modeling GPTs for applied macroeconomics development
- Innovation in turbulent times –>GAC Report (Foray and Phelps)
University-Industry Relationships and Access to Knowledge
- The Economics of Technology Transfer Offices (TTOs)
- The role of users in corporate innovation
- Economics of science at EPFL
- Licensing university inventions to facilitate access to medicines
- Nanotech clusters
- What is behind scientific publications by firms?
Innovation for Development
- Exposure to foreign technology and development –> The TRIPS index
- Technology transfers towards the least of developed countries: The Lausanne Group
Indicator, Data and Methods for Empirical Research
- Technology measurement
- Tools & Data: PATSTAT
Economics of basic research