Caroline Paunov, Senior Economist and Head of Secretariat for the OECD Working Party on Innovation and Technology Policy (TIP) at the Directorate for Science, Technology, and Innovation of the OECD, at AQR.

In her current position at the OECD, Caroline Paunov oversees the Working Party’s work on digital and open innovation and on assessing the impacts of public research on innovation. She has been invited to the RUE Seminar series, presenting her latest contributions to Innovation Policies in the Digital Age.

The study, co-authored with Dominique Guellec, discusses in detail the characteristics of digital innovation (data-driven innovation, servitisation, increasing speed of innovation, concentration), the opportunities and challenges for the different agents involved, and the expected effects on, among others, the structure of the market, income distribution, and the geographic location of activities. It also pays particular attention to the role of innovation policies in a context in which the digital perspective is increasingly important. In that respect, innovation policies that strengthen opportunities of disadvantaged and excluded groups to innovate can help support more inclusive role.