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Dynamising national innovation systems / [prepared by Svend Remoe in collaboration with Jean Guinet].

LIBRA HD45 .R375 2002
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Format:
Book
Government document
Author/Creator:
Remøe, Svend.
Contributor:
Guinet, Jean.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Committee for Scientific and Technological Policy.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Working Party on Technology and Innovation Policy.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Technological innovations.
Creative ability in technology.
Business networks.
Inventions.
Strategic alliances (Business).
Economic development.
Industrial policy.
Genre:
Conference papers and proceedings.
Physical Description:
96 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Place of Publication:
Paris : OECD, 2002.
Contents:
Intermediary findings of the NIS project 10
Part II Innovation Through Dynamic Systems 13
Towards a dynamic, innovation-driven economy 13
The NIS approach: Managing knowledge, interactions and institutions 14
What are interactions? 15
Providing dynamism in innovation systems 16
Dimensions of growth in innovation systems 16
Implementing the NIS approach 18
Part III Dynamism and Growth in Innovation Systems 19
The building block: Innovative firms 19
Firms grow through transitions 19
Firms have degrees of freedom in innovation 21
Reinventing the firm 23
Non-technological innovation is important 24
Clustering of innovative firms 25
The cluster concept 25
Different innovation patterns in different clusters 26
Key factors in cluster development 28
Networking in uncertain and rapidly changing environments 29
Collaboration is pervasive but the intensity and patterns of collaboration patterns are country-specific 30
Domestic and foreign networks reinforce each other 31
Networking extends to the science system 32
Government-induced international networking generates national and industry-specific spillovers 37
Competing for skills: Flows of human resources in innovation systems 37
The importance of skills and know-how 38
Labour mobility and economic performance 41
International mobility of human resources in science and technology 45
Complex interactions create resilient, dynamic and adaptive innovation systems 51
Part IV Dynamising Innovation Systems Through Comprehensive Policy 55
The need for coherent and comprehensive policy-making 55
Structuring and dynamising the innovation process 55
Enhancing firms' innovative capacities 55
Exploiting further the power of markets 56
Securing investment in knowledge 58
Promoting the commercialisation of publicly-funded research 58
Promoting cluster development 63
Promoting internationally-open networks 66
From public support to system management 70
Comprehensive, coherent and customised innovation policies 71
Prioritising and sequencing policies 71
Policy co-ordination to improve governance of the NIS 72
Policy learning 74
Concluding Remarks: NIS as a Benchmarking Tool 79
Annex the NIS Project 83
The OECD project on National Innovation Systems 83
The Focus Groups 84.
Notes:
"This report presents a synthesis of the main findings of the OECD project on National Innovation Systems. This project ... was carried out under the auspices of the Committee for Scientific and Technological Policy (CSTP) and its working party on Technology and Innovation Policy (TIP)"--P. 7.
"Synthesising the results of a multi-year OECD project on national innovation systems (NIS), this publication demonstrates how the NIS approach can be implemented in designing and implementing more efficient technology and innovation policies"--P. [4] of cover.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 87-96).
ISBN:
9264197834
OCLC:
50031810

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