Beyond the “Charmed Circle” of OECD: New Directions for Studies of National Innovation Systems

Delvenne, Pierre; Thoreau, François

doi:10.1007/s11024-012-9195-5

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“…Application of the NIS to developing countries is also complicated by what they argue are the overly normative tendencies of the NIS concept that confer an innovation system as continually, and often rapidly correcting inefficient pathways toward the advancement and maturing of industries (i.e., there are good and bad NISs), and that the emphasis is on technology based manufacturing (e.g., automobiles and computer electronics) and high tech industries (e.g., ICT and biotech). In doing so, the application of the NIS concept to developing countries may very well miss existing innovation systems in these countries that are based on more slowly developing, less technology driven industries (e.g., agriculture and craft industries) -possibly hindering the application of the NIS concept as a development tool and strategy (see Delvenne and Thoreau, 2012).…”

Section: Moving Beyond the Oecd: Different Institutional Incentives Amentioning

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National innovation systems and the intermediary role of industry associations in building institutional capacities for innovation in developing countries: A critical review of the literature

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a b s t r a c tDeveloped over the past three decades, the national innovation system concept (NIS) has been widely used by both scholars and policy makers to explain how interactions between a set of distinct, nationally bounded institutions supports and facilitates technological change and the emergence and diffusion of new innovations. This concept provides a framework by which developing countries can adopt for purposes of catching up. Initially conceived on structures and interactions identified in economically advanced countries, the application of the NIS concept to developing countries has been gradual and has coincided -in the NIS literature -with a move away from overly macro-interpretations to an emphasis on micro-level interactions and processes, with much of this work questioning the nation state as the most appropriate level of analysis, as well as the emergence of certain intermediary actors thought to facilitate knowledge exchange between actors and institutions. This paper reviews the NIS literature chronologically, showing how this shift in emphasis has diminished somewhat the importance of both institutions, particularly governments, and the political processes of institutional capacity building. In doing so, the paper suggests that more recent literature on intermediaries such as industry associations may offer valuable insights to how institutional capacity building occurs and how it might be directed, particularly in the context of developing countries where governance capacities are often lacking, contributing to less effective innovation systems, stagnant economies, and unequal development.

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Section: Moving Beyond the Oecd: Different Institutional Incentives Amentioning

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National innovation systems and the intermediary role of industry associations in building institutional capacities for innovation in developing countries: A critical review of the literature

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“…This chapter builds heavily on a previous version of our work, published in Delvenne and Thoreau (2012). We wish to thank the reviewers of this version who forced us to further some of our arguments and to alleviate a couple of blind spots from other disciplinary perspectives.…”

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“…This section examines the trajectory of Latin American STI regimes (Delvenne and Thoreau 2012). There are the global and regional contexts, for instance the emergence of the US hegemonic power and the rise of the Third World's (geo)political claims, the impacts of the broad debates of dependency theory, the aftermath of the 1959 Cuban revolution and the rise of a Latin American movement for science, technology and development in the 1960s.…”

Section: Breaking the Oecd 'Charmed Circle' In Latin Americamentioning

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Dancing without listening to the music: learning from some failures of the ‘national innovation systems’ in Latin America

Delvenne¹,

Thoreau²

2017

Research Handbook on Innovation Governance for Emerging Economies

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“…This is mainly because it introduces and implements a descriptive and simplified conceptualization of innovation, which tends to ignore socio-political landscapes and the global context, and is reductionist in its focus on economic growth (Delvenne and Thoreau 2012). Nevertheless, some authors have argued that the NIS framework is useful in a developing country context, although it needs to (a) more explicitly integrate activities and functions beyond adaptation and adoption; (b) focus on the process of learning and the development of capabilities through which knowledge can be developed for the local context (Kraemer-Mbula and Wamae 2010; Wamae 2010).…”

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University-driven inclusive innovations in the Western Cape of South Africa: Towards a research framework of innovation regimes

Grobbelaar

Tijssen

Dijksterhuis

2016

African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Developm

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Inclusive innovation refers to the improvement of living conditions and creation of employment opportunities for the poor through the development or co-creation of new products, services, processes and business models aimed at resource poor communities. Based on an empirical study of 15 university-led inclusive innovation projects in the Western Cape Province in South Africa, using an inductive approach we apply an analytical framework that serves two purposes (1) to describe our empirical findings and (2) to develop a broader research agenda that identifies a number of key research questions on the role of inclusive innovation projects in developing countries, and ways of addressing those questions in future studies. The empirical findings reveal a wide variety of university departments and individual staff members engaging with low-income user groups or entrepreneurs to (co-)create, launch or operate inclusive innovations. Our analysis shows that unravelling the various structural components and functions can provide interesting new insights into the workings of inclusive innovation systems. The findings of our study illustrate the complexity of the subject matter and the urgent need for a 'system of innovation components' approach to enhance our understanding of inclusive innovation projects and to develop appropriate methodologies for measuring their impacts.

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Beyond the “Charmed Circle” of OECD: New Directions for Studies of National Innovation Systems

Cited by 22 publications

References 23 publications

National innovation systems and the intermediary role of industry associations in building institutional capacities for innovation in developing countries: A critical review of the literature

National innovation systems and the intermediary role of industry associations in building institutional capacities for innovation in developing countries: A critical review of the literature

Dancing without listening to the music: learning from some failures of the ‘national innovation systems’ in Latin America

University-driven inclusive innovations in the Western Cape of South Africa: Towards a research framework of innovation regimes

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