Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 13.

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Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 13, edited by Josh Lerner and Scott Stern, is available from the University of Chicago Press. This NBER volume reports on the proceedings of an annual conference that is held in Washington which serves as an ongoing forum for the presentation of research on the interactions among public policy, the innovation process, and the economy. The papers in this volume include a consideration of the complex set of innovation-policy challenges that arise in managing publicly funded research, an examination of the increasingly visible role of philanthropic funding for science, a look at the increasingly contentious issue of public funding of growth-oriented entrepreneurship, and two papers that turn their attention to the evaluation of recent federal policy changes as the result...