Innovation and Public Policy

Austan Goolsbee is the Robert P. Gwinn Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Benjamin F. Jones is the Gordon and Llura Gund Family Professor of Entrepreneurship and a professor of strategy at Northwestern University and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

• Preface  IntroductionAustan Goolsbee and Benjamin F. Jones1. A Calculation of the Social Returns to InnovationBenjamin F. Jones and Lawrence H. Summers2. Innovation and Human Capital PolicyJohn Van Reenen3. Immigration Policy Levers for US Innovation and Start-UpsSari Pekkala Kerr and William R. Kerr4. Scientific Grant FundingPierre Azoulay and Danielle Li5. Tax Policy for InnovationBronwyn H. Hall6. Taxation and Innovation: What Do We Know?Ufuk Akcigit and Stefanie Stantcheva7. Government Incentives for EntrepreneurshipJosh Lerner  ContributorsAuthor IndexSubject Index

"As advanced economies worldwide experience slowing productivity growth, the time is ripe for new research on innovation policy. This book is therefore timely, collating seven new papers on the topic from renowned scholars. These papers build on well-established literature to offer a rich menu of policy prescriptions, evaluate large swathes of recent empirical work and provide new frameworks for approaching old problems in innovation policy."