Publications de Dominique Foray

Innovation Economics for Future Times

The innovation economy of the 20th century was admirable. It triggered a spectacular improvement in daily life conditions and sustained an incredible growth of the standards of living. But this economics of innovation was also disappointing. It has produce ...

2024

The Economics of Incomplete Plan - on Conditions, Procedures and Design of Future Mission - Oriented Innovation Policies

Dominique Foray

The buzzword in industrial policy and innovation policy circles is mission-oriented innovation policy (MOIP) -which means a policy to encourage innovation intended to accomplish a certain missionwhether it be a societal challenge (climate change, global he ...

INST ESTUDIOS FISCALES2022

The formation of Coasean institutions to provide university knowledge for innovation: a case study and econometric evidence for Switzerland

Dominique Foray

"Coasean" institutions are an alternative institutional form that provides a solution to some market and coordination failures. As such they can weaken considerably the case for public subsidies in a vast range of context. They are "market-based" and an in ...

SPRINGER2021

Smart specialization strategies – insights gained from a unique European policy experiment on innovation and industrial policy design

Dominique Foray

This paper aims to develop a coherent vision and detailed methodology of the policy approach that is evoked by the term “smart specialisation strategy” (S3), and to explore and elaborate the requirements and implications in terms of design and implementati ...

2021

Six additional replies - one more chorus of the S3 ballad

Dominique Foray

This paper has been written as a response to 'Six additional questions about smart specialization: implications for regional innovation policy 4.0' by M. Benner. The paper starts with the argument that recent academic work has enabled considerable progress ...

ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD2020

COVID-19 : Insights from innovation economists

Dominique Foray, Gaétan Jean A de Rassenfosse, Charles Chadi Ayoubi, Gabriele Pellegrino, George Abi Younes, Omar Ballester Gonzalez, Gabriele Cristelli, Ling Zhou, Matthias David van den Heuvel

The present document provides the take of innovation economists on the COVID-19 pandemic. It targets the general public and focuses on questions related to the Science, Technology, and Innovation ecosystem. It provides a reading of current real-world devel ...

2020

On the economics of social innovation - a conceptual framework and its policy implications

Dominique Foray

Social innovation addressing social, economic and environmental challenges are increasingly recognized as crucial drivers of social changes. However, the concept of social innovation remains vague. This paper builds a conceptual framework from an economic ...

2020

On sector-non-neutral innovation policy: towards new design principles

Dominique Foray

2019

In response to ‘Six critical questions about smart spezialisation’

Dominique Foray

This paper has been written as a response to « Six critical questions about smart specialization » by R. Hassink and H. Gong. The paper starts with a reminder of what has not changed in terms of the basic principles and raison d’être of smart specializatio ...

2019

Smart specialization strategies as a case of mission-oriented policy – a case study on the emergence of new policy practices

Dominique Foray

This article involves a conceptual evaluation of a large-scale innovation policy experiment—so-called smart specialization strategies (S3s)—that took place within the framework of the European regional cohesion programs between 2011 and the present. The go ...

2018

Smart specialization strategies and industrial modernization in European regions – theory and practice

Dominique Foray

Based on a seminal policy paper (Foray et al., 2009), the Smart Specialisation Strategies (S3) approach was integrated into the reformed cohesion policy of the European Union for 2014-20. This large-scale European experience provides a unique case study of ...

2018

Does inventor centrality foster regional innovation? The case of the Swiss medical devices sector

Dominique Foray, Monica Coffano, Michele Pezzoni

Does inventor centrality foster regional innovation? The case of the Swiss medical devices sector. Regional Studies. This paper contributes an empirical analysis to the discussion of the impact of inventors' collaboration networks on regional innovation. M ...

Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd2017

On the policy space of smart specialization strategies

Dominique Foray

This paper is about smart specialization strategies' as an innovation (or industrial) policy approach. Being a sector non-neutral policy, while promoting a bottom-up principle of entrepreneurial initiative and dynamics, smart specialization strategies' occ ...

2016

Can medical products be developed on a non-profit basis? Exploring product development partnerships for neglected diseases

Dominique Foray, Patrick Gaulé, Viviana Carolina Munoz Tellez de Kieffer, Fabiana Visentin

Reliance on market forces can lead to underinvestment in social welfare enhancing innovation. The lack of new medical products in the area of neglected diseases is a case in point. R&D for neglected diseases has increased with new funding and collaboration ...

Oxford University Press2015

Common Innovation (how we create the wealth of nations) in the light of reflections on Mass Flourishing (how grassroots innovation created jobs, challenge, and change)

Dominique Foray

2015

Should we let the Genie out of the bottle? On the new industrial policy agenda and the example of smart specialisation

Dominique Foray

2015

Transition economics meets new structural economics

Dominique Foray

Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd2015

An assessment of the Innovation Union Scoreboard as a tool to analyse national innovation capacities: The case of Switzerland

Dominique Foray

This article investigates the Innovation Union Scoreboard (IUS) as a tool to carry out case studies about national innovation capacities in the case of given countries. It clarifies what this statistical framework can offer in terms of information and insi ...

Oxford University Press2015

The emergence of an educational tool industry: Opportunities and challenges for innovation in education

Dominique Foray, Julio Diego Salvador Raffo

The paper addresses two issues. One concerns the general conditions and procedures involved in the emergence of a tool industry. Tool industries emerge and evolve as a collection of capital goods and tool inventors and manufacturers. One of our goals is to ...

2014

From smart specialisation to smart specialisation policy

Dominique Foray

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to focus on the distinction between smart specialisation and smart specialisation policy and it studies under what conditions a smart specialisation policy is necessary. Design/methodology/approach – A conceptual fram ...

2014