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Mission-oriented policies and the 鈥淓ntrepreneurial State鈥 at work: An agent-based exploration

This paper assesses the impact of different innovation policies on the short and long-run performance of the economy, as well as on the public budget.

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14 June 2021

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香港六合彩 Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP) Working Paper Series: IIPP WP 2021/10

Authors

  • Giovanni Dosi |听Institute of Economics and EMbeDS, Scuola Superiore Sant鈥橝nna, Pisa, Italy
  • Francesco Lamperti | Institute of Economics and EMbeDS, Scuola Superiore Sant鈥橝nna, Pisa, Italy; RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment, Milan, Italy
  • Mariana Mazzucato | 香港六合彩 Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose
  • Mauro Napoletano | GREDEG, CNRS, Universit 听C te d鈥橝zur and SKEMA Business School, Nice, France; and Sciences Po, OFCE, France; and Scuola Superiore Sant鈥橝nna, Pisa, Italy
  • Andrea Roventini | Institute of Economics and EMbeDS, Scuola Superiore Sant鈥橝nna, Pisa, Italy; and Sciences Po, OFCE, France

Reference

Dosi, D., Lamperti, F., Mazzucato, M., Napoletano, M. and Roventini, A. (2021). Mission-oriented policies and the 鈥淓ntrepreneurial State鈥 at work: An agent-based exploration. 香港六合彩 Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, Working Paper Series (IIPP WP 2021/10). Available at: /bartlett/public-purpose/wp2021-10

Abstract

We study the impact of alternative innovation policies on the short- and long-run performance of the economy, as well as on public finances, extending the Schumpeter meeting Keynes agent-based model (Dosi et al., 2010). In particular, we consider market-based innovation policies such as R&D subsidies to firms, tax discount on investment, and direct policies akin to the 鈥淓ntrepreneurial State鈥 (Mazzucato, 2013), involving the creation of public research-oriented firms diffusing technologies along specific trajectories, and funding a Public Research Lab conducting basic research to achieve radical innovations that enlarge the technological opportunities of the economy. Simulation results show that all policies improve productivity and GDP growth, but the best outcomes are achieved by active discretionary State policies, which are also able to crowd in private investment and have positive hysteresis effects on growth dynamics. For the same size of public resources allocated to market-based interventions, 鈥淢ission鈥 innovation policies deliver significantly better aggregate performance if the government is patient enough and willing to bear the intrinsic risks related to innovative activities.