Governance Quality, Market Structure and Innovation: An International Conference

The relationship between innovation and economic governance institutions is a relatively under-studied area of research. This has been the case despite extensive work on the relationship between governance quality and other economic outcomes such as growth, investment, and income distribution. In addition, potential synergies that may result from combining economic governance, market structure (i.e., level of competition), relational governance and network structures remain to be explored. Given this state of affairs, we aim to bring together innovative research papers that explore the relationship between innovation (measured through inputs or outputs at macro- or micro-level), economic/corporate/relational governance, and networks structures. We hope that the work to be presented at the conference could contribute to the literature in two ways: (i) bringing an economic/corporate/relational governance perspective into the analysis of innovation at macro- or firm-level; and (ii) exploring the ways in which governance quality/structures may interact with networks to influence innovation at macro- or firm-level.