Economics of Innovation. Advanced

2024/2025

Academic Year

ENG

Instruction in English

3

ECTS credits

Delivered at:

Department of Educational Programmes

Course type:

Elective course

When:

1 year, 4 module

Instructors

Dranev, Yury

Miriakov, Mikhail

Ochirova, Elena

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The interplay between innovations, economic transformation, and economic growth is studied with an emphasis on the relationship between the STI discourse and the general agenda of development studies, considering the link between innovation and productivity, technological upgrading, and catch-up. The course is delivered to master students of The National Research University – Higher School of Economics/HSE. The course length is 114 academic hours in total of which 32 hours are class room hours and 82 hours are devoted to self-study. Academic control forms are in-class quizzes and presentations, a written project (structured literature review), and a written exam.

Learning Objectives

• Understanding the agenda of Economics of Innovation, as well as contemporary views on the interrelations between technological change and economic development
• Using quality academic texts to develop and support argumentation

Expected Learning Outcomes

• Knowledge of the contemporary multiactor perspective on innovation; Knowledge of the core macroeconomic dimensions of innovation and its link with economic development; Knowledge of the key insights of the microeconomics of innovation
• understanding the key insights of the microeconomics of innovation

Course Contents

• Innovation and economic growth advanced
• Sustainable development and transformative change
• Digitalization and innovation
• Innovation and economic shocks

Assessment Elements

• Project
• Final exam

Interim Assessment

• 2024/2025 4th module
  0.3 * Final exam + 0.7 * Project

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• Soete, L., Muldur, U., & Delanghe, H. (2009). European Science and Technology Policy : Towards Integration or Fragmentation? Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=305367
• The Oxford handbook of innovation, Fagerberg J., 2006

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• Fred Gault. (2013). The Oslo Manual. Chapters, 41. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsrep&AN=edsrep.h.elg.eechap.14427.2
• Gault, F. (2013). Handbook of Innovation Indicators and Measurement. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=602821
• The economics of industrial innovation, Freeman, C., 1997

Authors

• OCHIROVA ELENA SERGEEVNA
• DRANEV YURIY YAKOVLEVICH
• Терегулова Адель Анваровна
• Зинченко Екатерина Андреевна