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Evaluating Evaluations of Innovation Policy: Exploring Reliability, Methods, and Conflicts of Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

157 Elias Collin, Christian Sandström, and Karl Wennberg Do Targeted R&D Grants toward SMEs Increase Employment and Demand for High Human Capital Workers? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

175 Sven-Olov Daunfeldt, Daniel Halvarsson, Patrik Gustavsson Tingvall, and Alexander McKelvie

Part IV The Entrepreneurial State and Sustainability Transitions Third-Generation Innovation Policy: System Transformation or Reinforcing Business as Usual? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

201 John-Erik Bergkvist, Jerker Moodysson, and Christian Sandström Less from More: China Built Wind Power, but Gained Little Electricity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

219 Jonas Grafström The Failures of the Entrepreneurial State: Subsidies to Renewable Energies in Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

233 Carlo Amenta and Carlo Stagnaro Directionality in Innovation Policy and the Ongoing Failure of Green Deals: Evidence from Biogas, Bio-ethanol, and Fossil-Free Steel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

251 Christian Sandström and Carl Alm

Part V From the Entrepreneurial State Towards Evidence-Based

Innovation Policy Policy Instruments for High-Growth Enterprises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

273 Alex Coad, Péter Harasztosi, Rozália Pál, and Mercedes Teruel Public-Steering and Private-Performing Sectors: Success and Failures in the Swedish Finance, Telecoms, and City Planning Sectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

299 Klas A. M. Eriksson and Rasmus Nykvist The Digital Platform Economy and the Entrepreneurial State: A European Dilemma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

317 Zoltan J. Acs Collaborative Innovation Blocs and Mission-Oriented Innovation Policy: An Ecosystem Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

345 Niklas Elert and Magnus Henrekson

ixContributors

Zoltan Acs School of Public Policy and Director Center for Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA University of Pecs, Pécs, Hungary Carl Alm Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden Carlo Amenta University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy Institute Bruno Leoni, Milan, Italy John-Erik Bergkvist House of Innovation, Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm, Sweden Anna Brattström Lund University School of Economics and Management, Lund, Sweden House of Innovation, Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm, Sweden Alex Coad Waseda Business School, Tokyo, Japan Elias Collin School of Economics and Management, Lund University, Lund, Sweden Sven-Olov Daunfeldt Institute of Retail Economics (Handelns Forskningsinstitut), Stockholm, Sweden Sinclair Davidson Blockchain Innovation Hub, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia Niklas Elert The Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Stockholm, Sweden Klas A. M. Eriksson Department of Economic History and International Relations, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

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