This book provides a comprehensive assessment of the innovation system of Peru, focusing on the role of government. It provides concrete recommendations and identifies good practices on how to improve policies that affect innovation performance, including R&D policies.
Table of contents:
Foreword Acronyms Overall assessment and recommendations -Sustaining the recovery: towards a stronger role for innovation in Peru’s economic development -Peru’s innovation system: Main weaknesses and policy challenges -Strategic tasks and guiding principles -Recommendations -Notes Evaluation globale et recommandations -Soutenir la reprise : vers un rôle plus puissant de l’innovation dans le développement économique du Pérou -Le système d’innovation péruvien : principales faiblesses et enjeux pour les pouvoirs publics -Tâches stratégiques et principes directeurs -Recommandations -Notes Evaluación general y recomendaciones -Mantener la recuperación: buscando fortalecer el rol de la innovación en el desarrollo económico de Perú -El sistema de innovación de Perú: principales debilidades y desafíos de política pública -Tareas estratégicas y principios orientadores -Recomendaciones -Notas Chapter 1. Economic performance and structural change: innovation as a key driver of sustainable growth -1.1. Impressive growth in the last decade -1.2. Sustainability of the development path: Emerging issues -1.3. Framework conditions for innovation -1.4. Innovation as a key driver of sustainable future growth -1.5. Peru’s innovation performance -Notes -References Chapter 2. Innovation: The main actors -2.1. The business sector -2.2. Public research institutes -2.3. The higher education sector -2.4. Intermediary institutions -Notes Chapter 3. The role of government -3.1. Peru’s STI system: Evolution of the institutional setting and policy orientations -3.2. Policy rationales, policy mix and governance: Concepts and experiences -3.3. Policy design institutions and implementation instruments -3.4. Policy mix issues and blind spots -3.5. Moving towards a more efficient STI policy -3.6. Improving the governance structure and institutional reforms -3.7. Concluding remarks -Notes -References