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Developing National Systems of Innovation
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In 2006, the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) of
Canada opened a competition on “searching for paths to support the
changing role of universities in the South.” This competition provided an
opportunity for collaboration between research teams from 12 different
countries from three continents. The objective was to fill the gap in knowledge
about interactions between firms, universities, and research institutes
at the periphery.
Universities, research institutes, and firms are key parts of a National
System of Innovation (NSI). The interactions between these key components
of the NSI are starting points for a dynamic interpretation of the
importance, role, and nature of science and technology. The comparative
study published by Nelson (1993) is a product of previous work by
Christopher Freeman, Bengt-Åke
Lundvall, and Richard Nelson (see
Dosi et al. 1988, Part V). Nelson and Rosenberg (1993) summarized
the concept of an NSI and set the framework of the comparative study.
They stressed that the “intertwining of science and technology” (p. 5)
was a complex feedback process that resulted in mutual positive feedback
between science and technology – “science as leader and follower” (p. 6).
Nelson and Rosenberg (1993, pp. 9–13) also present “the major institutional
actors,” which are “firms and industrial research laboratories” and
“other institutional actors” – universities and public laboratories. Those
lessons shaped our initial views: investigations of interactions between
firms, universities, and public laboratories were now seen as investigations
of NSIs – zooming in on specific but important components
Eduardo Albuquerque - Personal Name
1st Edition
978 1 78471 110 8
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Developing National Systems of Innovation
Management
2015
1-312
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