Obama's Innovation Policy: Can the New Directions Hold?

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Notes

¹ As noted, US policy makers frequently use the term ‘industrial policy’ in a pejorative sense to imply favouritism for certain sectors for firms. I define industrial, or innovation policy as those policies ‘that explicitly aim to promote the development, spread, and efficient use of new products, processes, services, and business or organizational models’ (see Ezell and Atkinson, 2010).

² http://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/technology (accessed 25 October 2010).

³ http://www.whitehouse.gov/open (accessed 25 October 2010).

⁴ http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/02/04/grand-challenges-21st-century (accessed 25 October 2010).

⁵ http://www.engineeringchallenges.org (accessed 25 October 2010).