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Innovation policy is centrally concerned with stimulating, guiding and monitoring knowledge-based activities within a political jurisdiction, typically a nation or a region. The goals of innovation policy are economic, although they are widely stated in broad welfare terms (e.g. the advancement of knowledge, sustainable development, or social benefits). Its instruments are programs and institutions, as well as ideas. However, as a policy area, not only is it deeply knowledge intensive but its subject itself is knowledge. Hence, given the wide variation of knowledge - from the explicit to the tacit - knowledge management in innovation policy is a domain that is fraught with complexity, ambiguity, uncertainty, judgment, creativity and spontaneity.
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de la Mothe, J. (2001). Knowledge, Learning and Innovation Policy. In: Knowledge Management in the Innovation Process. Economics of Science, Technology and Innovation, vol 24. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1535-7_12
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