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Author-Name: Bartzokas, Anthony
Author-Email: bartzokas@intech.unu.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: United Nations University, Institute for New Technologies
Author-Name: Teubal, Morris
Author-Workplace-Name: Hebrew University
Title: A Framework for Policy-Oriented Innovation Studies in Industrialising Countries
Abstract: This paper argues that there is increasing need for the integration of policy
	 considerations in the formulation of research questions and in the development of
	 analytical work in policy-oriented innovation studies. Despite the fact that
	 Evolutionary and Innovation Studies theories have offered new ways of incorporating
	 policy, little explicitness in this regard has yet been achieved and there is a
	 risk that academic research following the new perspectives will be of little
	 relevance for policy. Rather than a 'linear process' starting with empirical
	 research aimed at linking competitiveness and economic performance to technological
	 capabilities (in a comparative perspective and aimed at identifying 'best
	 practice'), followed by very abstract and un-grounded 'policy implications', a new
	 type of link between positive and normative economics in the field is required. Our
	 approach suggests a new structure for policy-oriented and policy-relevant research,
	 i.e. the integration of research on technological change and industrial
	 transformation, with research on policy and the development of a conceptual
	 framework for the design and implementation of innovation policies
Keywords: Technological Change, Research, Innovation Policy, Industrial Policy
Series: Discussion Paper
Creation-Date: 2001
Number: 6
File-URL: http://www.intech.unu.edu/publications/discussion-papers/2001-6.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 286 Kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unuint:200106