Challenges to multi-agency and multi-stakeholder collaboration in innovation and enterprise policy

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Knox, Stephen and Arshed, Norin; Abdul-Rahman, Syahirah and Tuckerman, Lauren and Nelles, Jen and Vorley, Tim, eds. (2025) Challenges to multi-agency and multi-stakeholder collaboration in innovation and enterprise policy. In: Innovations in Innovation Policy. Edward Elgar, Northampton, MA, pp. 177-192. ISBN 9781035322206 (https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035322206.00019)

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Abstract

From a global perspective, enterprise and innovation policies are fundamental to governments in developing their economies. Enterprise policy encapsulates both entrepreneurship and small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) policy aimed at fostering business start-up and growth rates, which have long been associated with job creation and innovation (Arshed et al., 2014; Wapshott & Mallett, 2018). The popularity of the term ‘innovation policy’ is of relatively recent origin (Fagerberg & Hutschenreiter, 2020) and reflects growing recognition that knowledge and innovation are fundamental for national economic performance (Lundvall & Borrás, 2005). Innovation policies aim to explicitly link science, technology, and innovation with economic and employment growth. Recently, the traditional rationale for innovation policy has been expanded to contribute more explicitly to tackling societal challenges (Boon & Edler, 2018). Both enterprise and innovation policies have the common purpose of increasing economic growth while tackling societal challenges.

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Knox, Stephen and Arshed, Norin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6775-1840; Abdul-Rahman, Syahirah, Tuckerman, Lauren, Nelles, Jen and Vorley, Tim
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