Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Gu, Shulin
Author-Email: Gu@intech.unu.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: United Nations University, Institute for New Technologies
Title: Implications Of National Innovation Systems For Developing Countries: Managing Change And Complexity In Economic Development
Abstract: This paper develops implications of National Innovation Systems (NIS) from the
	 perspective of developing countries. A review of the development of NIS in the OECD
	 context reveals that the notion of national innovation systems is a synthesis made
	 at the national and other societal levels, of the insights about technological
	 innovation and institutional change. Its strong policy orientation came from the
	 need to manage change and complexity for economic growth and development. It should
	 be adapted as one of the most relevant policy instruments for knowledge based
	 development in developing countries.
	 The paper identifies gaps which may impede possible applications of the innovative
	 policy approach of NIS, mainly in the preparation of people for change, and in the
	 development of a knowledge basis for the learning intensive policy approach of NIS.
	 The paper also illustrates how to make efforts to narrow the gaps.
Keywords: Technology Policy, National Policy, Developing Countries, Economic Development
Series: Discussion Paper
Creation-Date: 1999
Number: 1999-03
File-URL: https://www.merit.unu.edu/publications/discussion-papers/9903.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 242 Kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unuint:199903