Markus Balzat, Horst Hanusch
Recent Trends in the Research on National Innovation Systems
Abstract:
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 formalize 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.
JEL: O110,
O310, O500, P510
Paper:
Paper available as pdf-file.
Beitrag Nr. 254, Volkswirtschaftliche Diskussionsreihe, Institut
für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Augsburg
Contact:
Markus Balzat, University of Augsburg, Department of Economics,
Universitätsstr. 16, D-86159 Augsburg, Phone +49-821-598-4179, Fax
+49-821-598-4229
Horst
Hanusch, University of Augsburg, Department of Economics,
Universitätsstr. 16, D-86159 Augsburg, Phone +49-821-598-4179, Fax
+49-821-598-4229
E-Mail: horst.hanusch@wiwi.uni-augsburg.de
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K., 14.11.2003