The Demand for Innovation: PICK-ME

Starting in January CASE will implement under the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Commission, PICK-ME: Policy Incentives for the Creation of Knowledge: Methods and Evidence.

For a period of three and a half years, CASE is part of a consortium with Fondazione Collegio Carlo Alberto Centro Superiore di Ricera e Formazione Economico - Finanziaria (Leader), Universiteit Utrecht, Universite de Nice - Sophia Antipolis, London school of economics, Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Universitaet Hohenheim and The Samuel Institute for Advanced Studies in Science and Technology of the Tecchnion ltd.

The project analyses the role played by demand in the generation and exploitation of technological knowledge, introduction of technological and organizational innovation, and in fostering productivity growth, at a theoretical and especially at an empirical level. To do this the project will consider the network structures and the connectivity linkages among the different institutional actors (research infrastructure, business community, policymakers) involved in the generation and exploitation of technological knowledge in the firm, sectoral and geographical dimensions in which these processes take place. This will be done in order to give scientific support to demand-oriented innovation policies coupled with knowledge generation policies and to identify best practices for national and regional innovation systems.