National Innovation Policies in the EU: A Fuzzy-Set Analysis

Configurational conditions of national innovation capability: A fuzzy set analysis approach

“…A country's innovation capability is the result of a learning process evolving over time and largely depends on how all five of these conditions interact (Lundvall et al, 2002;Nelson and Winter, 1982). This evolutionary process does not necessarily lead to one uniform configuration of conditions for innovation capability (Pustovrh and Jaklič, 2014). This means that there is no single path leading to innovation capability, but there are complementarities between conditions that influence innovation capability (Lundvall, 2007).…”

“…Despite substantial research on national innovation capability using the national innovation system perspective, little is known about which specific configurations of conditions lead to higher levels of national innovation capability (Fagerberg and Srholec, 2008;Pustovrh and Jaklič, 2014). The first reason is that the literature on national innovation capability is fragmented-various theoretical studies have been developed-and an integrating framework is lacking (Fagerberg and Srholec, 2008;Lundvall et al, 2002).…”

“…The second reason for the lack of knowledge about configurations of conditions is that research on national innovation capability suffers from a mismatch between theory and methods (Fagerberg and Srholec, 2008). This is because theory suggests that the explanation of national innovation capability is best understood in terms of combinations of conditions, also known as configurational conditions, whereas methods primarily use individual and 'independent' conditions (Pustovrh and Jaklič, 2014). Proponents of the configurational approach take a systemic view (Fiss, 2007(Fiss, , 2011.…”

“…Proponents of the configurational approach take a systemic view (Fiss, 2007(Fiss, , 2011. By reducing national innovation capability to a small number of individual conditions, a large number of studies do not grasp the complex interaction effects between various conditions that influence innovation capability (Pustovrh and Jaklič, 2014).…”

Determinants of Country-Level Employee Overqualification: A Configurational Approach

“…The configurational (set-theoretic) approach seems to be superior to the correlational approach in accomplishing this. Indeed, while the net effects/correlation statistics approach focuses on the independent effects of causal conditions on the outcome and cannot unravel the causally complex nature (Pustovrh & Jakli c, 2014), the configurational approach establishes clear links between specific combinations of conditions and the outcome (Ragin, 2009).…”