Political aspects of innovation

Courvisanos, Jerry

doi:10.1016/j.respol.2009.04.001

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“…During periods of decline the willingness and even desire to try something different may be a key factor to ensuring resilience both in terms of resistance and also re-orientation, where previously accepted rules are not necessarily fully applicable (Courvisanos, 2009). In terms of wider social values, it is unclear whether a more individualistic or collective cultural approach is more conducive to resilience, with there being potentially benefits from both cultural systems.…”

Section: Community Culture and Entrepreneurial Resiliencementioning

confidence: 99%

Local entrepreneurial resilience and culture: the role of social values in fostering economic recovery

Huggins¹,

Thompson²

2015

Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society

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This paper examines localities in terms of the impact of community culture on the resilience of their entrepreneurial activity. Drawing on a regression analysis of data covering localities in Britain for the period 2004-2011, it is found that an open and diverse culture is likely to aid the renewal and re-orientation of local entrepreneurial activity. Overall, the study indicates that local social values play an important role in fostering entrepreneurial resilience. It is suggested that future policy intervention may be best targeted at the education system, where the tolerance and skill-sets underpinning entrepreneurial resilience can be most effectively developed.

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Section: Community Culture and Entrepreneurial Resiliencementioning

confidence: 99%

Local entrepreneurial resilience and culture: the role of social values in fostering economic recovery

Huggins¹,

Thompson²

2015

Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society

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“…Courvisanos (2009) reinterpreted that innovation and R&D activities over a business cycle are strongly connected with political decisions such as public investment, following Kalecki's work.…”

Section: Political Correlates Of Technological Innovationmentioning

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Cultural correlates of national innovative capacity: a cross-national analysis of national culture and innovation rates

Jang

Kim

2016

Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity

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Although it is conventional wisdom that innovation requires free mind, diversity, or creativity all of which are closely associated with political and organizational decentralization, it is in fact more politically centralized countries in East Asia that successfully capitalized on innovation to catapult their economies onto the growth trajectory. Scholars have thus wondered if this is an exception rather a rule. Are more centralized countries innovative? Existing empirical research has produced mixed results. This study introduces a new perspective on this issue. Rather than the degree of centralization found in formal institutions, we focus on non-institutional or informal dimensions of centralization particularly associated with culture. Using Hofstede's cross-national dataset capturing national culture, we explore how different dimensions of national culture are linked to national innovative capacity as proxied by patents. Our preliminary findings from the analysis of 34 OECD member states based on the patent data extracted from the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) database suggest that non-institutional dimensions of centralization account more for the variations in national rates of patents per capita than more formal aspects of centralization measured by traditional political datasets such as POLCON. While cultural aspects have been examined in technology management at the individual and the firm level, this study fills a gap in the existing literature by exploring their relationship at the national level. More research is clearly needed to explore the roles of non-institutional features facilitating or hampering innovation.

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“…So, the "Schumpeterian hypothesis" links the size of the firm, the market power and the innovation. Given this association between the market power and innovation through profits, Courvisanos (2009) focused on the political aspects of innovation by mentioning that these aspects do affect the competitive structure of a given market. If competition level is high under a given political environment, super-profits due to innovation will be dissipated rapidly.…”

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“…Moreover, Courvisanos (2010) expanded his point of view, which is still based on Kalecki"s political economy approach by mentioning the need to move to another wave of innovations which allow the clearly recognised unsustainable technology systems to be replaced by eco sustainable technologies. However, political environment still puts barriers to these types of innovation in different ways across the globe.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Representation of the History of the Technical Progress in the Literature about Economic Growth: A Comment

Samet¹

2018

Asian Development Policy Review

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Political aspects of innovation

Cited by 40 publications

References 27 publications

Local entrepreneurial resilience and culture: the role of social values in fostering economic recovery

Local entrepreneurial resilience and culture: the role of social values in fostering economic recovery

Cultural correlates of national innovative capacity: a cross-national analysis of national culture and innovation rates

Representation of the History of the Technical Progress in the Literature about Economic Growth: A Comment

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