In this chapter, we focus on the policy implications of the theoretical approach to understanding innovation outlined in the previous contributions in this volume. How can this approach help policymakers to implement effective interventions, foster innovation processes and create structures to sustain them over time? To address this question, we first discuss the problematic relationship between innovation theory and policy objectives and implementation; we illustrate this issue, in Section 11.2, by discussing the example of current European innovation policy. In Section 11.3, we explore the rationale for innovation policy provided by our complexity-based perspective to innovation
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Rossi, F., Russo, M. (2009). Innovation Policy: Levels and Levers. In: Lane, D., Pumain, D., van der Leeuw, S.E., West, G. (eds) Complexity Perspectives in Innovation and Social Change. Methodos Series, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9663-1_12
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