Recent trends in the research on national innovation systems

Recent trends in the research on national innovation systems

In this paper, we give an overview on recent developments in the research on national innovation systems (NIS). Essentially, we identify three development lines of the concept. These are policy-oriented studies that frequently combine the NIS approach with the terminology of corporate benchmarking,...

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Published in:Journal of evolutionary economics Vol. 14; no. 2; pp. 197 - 210
Main Authors: Balzat, Markus, Hanusch, Horst
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Heidelberg Springer Nature B.V 01-05-2004
Subjects:
Best practice
Economic growth
Economic models
Economic theory
Evolutionary economics
Innovation
Innovations
International comparisons
International organizations
Learning
National economy
R&D
Research & development
Studies
Trends
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Summary:In this paper, we give an overview on recent developments in the research on national innovation systems (NIS). Essentially, we identify three development lines of the concept. These are policy-oriented studies that frequently combine the NIS approach with the terminology of corporate benchmarking, contributions to the formalization of the concept of NIS through descriptive or analytical models, and NIS studies of countries beyond the group of highly industrialized economies. It follows from the analysis of these research trends that the concept has developed in distinctive directions. In international comparisons of innovation systems, heterogeneity in the structure of the systems is only marginally taken into account, an aspect that may reduce the explanatory power of such system-level comparisons. Contrary to this, historically grown organizational and institutional structures are extensively described and considered in NIS studies of industrializing countries, a characteristic which ties up with early studies of national innovation systems. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
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ISSN:0936-9937
1432-1386
DOI:10.1007/s00191-004-0187-y