Description:
First published in 2003, this book examines the 1990s shift in Research and Technological Development policies from problem-solving to a systemic innovation approach. It analyzes innovation policies in 12 industrialized nations, exploring the transition's causes, effects, and institutional changes through a multidisciplinary framework.
Review Quotes: 'Biegelbauer and Borras provide a particularly worthwhile and insightful overview of the shift in science and technology policy towards innovation in a number of Western countries. The various cases written by leading scholars in the field are invaluable in providing a detailed account of the policy shift which took place over the nineties in each of these countries. A must for readers interested in the shifting boundaries of science, technology and innovation policy.' Professor Luc Soete, Maastricht University, The Netherlands 'This book brings a new, important, input into the process of international policy learning and its characterization of innovation policy as constituted by the promotion of policy co-ordination, learning and knowledge appropriation, functional flexibility and organizational change is very much to the point. I strongly recommend readers to study carefully the different cases presented in this book.' Professor Bengt-Ã...ke Lundvall, Aalborg University, Denmark