How Relevant and Useful is the Concept of National Systems of Innovation?

This paper aimed to provide an analytical and theoretical discussion of the national innovation systems perspective. In doing so, first, we sketched out some of the economists' main endeavours in theorizing about the relationship between technological development and economic progress over the...

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Autores principales: Woojin,Yoon, Eunjung,Hyun
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios 2009
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spelling oai:scielo:S0718-272420090003000012009-11-11How Relevant and Useful is the Concept of National Systems of Innovation?Woojin,YoonEunjung,Hyun National innovation systems knowledge-intensive economy technological development innovation policy This paper aimed to provide an analytical and theoretical discussion of the national innovation systems perspective. In doing so, first, we sketched out some of the economists' main endeavours in theorizing about the relationship between technological development and economic progress over the past several decades. Second part of the presentation was concerned with identifying and describing the driving forces behind innovations; that was, an economic actor's desire to gain and sustain competitive advantages. In the third part of the discussion, we presented major theoretical accounts put forward by the authors of national systems of innovation focusing on the question of which institutional elements shape the behaviours and interactions of economic actors in terms of innovative performance. Then we reflected on some of the major policy implications enshrined in the study of national innovation systems.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessUniversidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y NegociosJournal of technology management & innovation v.4 n.3 20092009-10-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-27242009000300001en10.4067/S0718-27242009000300001
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topic National innovation systems
knowledge-intensive economy
technological development
innovation policy
spellingShingle National innovation systems
knowledge-intensive economy
technological development
innovation policy
Woojin,Yoon
Eunjung,Hyun
How Relevant and Useful is the Concept of National Systems of Innovation?
description This paper aimed to provide an analytical and theoretical discussion of the national innovation systems perspective. In doing so, first, we sketched out some of the economists' main endeavours in theorizing about the relationship between technological development and economic progress over the past several decades. Second part of the presentation was concerned with identifying and describing the driving forces behind innovations; that was, an economic actor's desire to gain and sustain competitive advantages. In the third part of the discussion, we presented major theoretical accounts put forward by the authors of national systems of innovation focusing on the question of which institutional elements shape the behaviours and interactions of economic actors in terms of innovative performance. Then we reflected on some of the major policy implications enshrined in the study of national innovation systems.
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Eunjung,Hyun
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Eunjung,Hyun
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title How Relevant and Useful is the Concept of National Systems of Innovation?
title_short How Relevant and Useful is the Concept of National Systems of Innovation?
title_full How Relevant and Useful is the Concept of National Systems of Innovation?
title_fullStr How Relevant and Useful is the Concept of National Systems of Innovation?
title_full_unstemmed How Relevant and Useful is the Concept of National Systems of Innovation?
title_sort how relevant and useful is the concept of national systems of innovation?
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