Too many handbooks?

Yes there are definitely already too many handbooks but perhaps there is still a gap to be filled… 

As far as I can see the existing handbooks cover either the dynamics of innovation (i.e. innovation studies) or are prescriptive handbooks of "what should be in innovation policies in an ideal world". Such books have not nearly enough in them about innovation policy problems/challenges in the world we all actually live in, the difficulty of making, implementing and evaluating innovation policies in the real world, and the politics with a small "p" that all this involves. I would particularly like to see some honest discussion about the limitations of innovation policy which in turn would encourage us to look at where innovation policy analysis can actually be usefully focused in the real world. I've written a bit about this myself (with colleagues):

https://www.escholar.manchester.ac.uk/uk-ac-man-scw:119191