ABSTRACT
Technological change is a challenge for policy makers as well as for industry. On the one hand, policy is expected to be market- and technology-neutral, at least to a large extent (cf. Nelson and Winter, 1982). But on the other, policy should encourage the development of new technologies (Carlsson and Jacobsson, 1997; Dosi, 1982; Dosiet al., 2006). Policy research provides several potential areas for policy makers to target, predominantly at the national level. The proposed degree of public involvement varies considerably between different strands of research. In the evolutionary tradition and the innovation system approach, which is the main theoretical framework for this study, the multifaceted role of government to address systemic failures and bottlenecks is acknowledged (cf. Bergeket al., 2008; Freeman, 1987; Nelson, 1993).
