Innovation, Path Dependency, and Policy: The Norwegian Case by Jan Fagerberg, David Mowery, Bart Verspagen

By Jan Fagerberg, David Mowery, Bart Verspagen

The idea that of nationwide Innovation structures is definitely demonstrated in educational examine and enthusiastically followed by way of policymakers. but there are fairly few in-depth reports of person nationwide innovation systems.This e-book presents simply that, a version for the applying of the concept that to a person economic climate. prime students offer an in depth research of the actual conditions of Norway--a excessive source of revenue, excessive productiveness, source wealthy economic climate, with really modest funding in R&D, and a striking music list of social fairness. The authors argue that funding in human capital can be extra major than any formulation for R&D funding. The ebook contains contributions from historians, economists, and political scientists, and gives an unheard of account of the improvement of 1 of the world's so much profitable economies. it is going to be crucial interpreting fro lecturers and policymakers taken with innovation and progress.

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6. Percentage of Population with tertiary education (age 25–64), Norway and a reference group, 2000–2004. Source: OECD (2006), Education at a Glance. 6). Norway and other Nordic countries have substantially higher shares of tertiary-education degreeholders than is true of many other European economies. Another indicator of absorptive capacity is the level of adoption of important new technologies within an economy. 7 compares the level of Norwegian adoption in 2005 of one such “general purpose technology,” personal computers, with that of other European nations, revealing that the Nordic countries, including Norway, display the highest rates of adoption for PCs.

Arguably, innovations of this type, which affect the entire production system of natural-resource industries, may not be classified as innovations by the CIStype surveys that focus on technological (product and process) innovations (Smith 2004). The contributions in this volume emphasize the contributions of institutions and politics to the path-dependent development of innovation systems. Indeed, the path-dependent character of the evolution of the Norwegian national innovation system is a product of politics, as well as institutional development.

Nelson, R. R. ) (1993) National Innovation Systems: A Comparative Study, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Nelson, R. R. and S. G. : Harvard University Press. North, D. C. (1990) Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. OECD (2007) Economic Surveys: Norway, Paris: OECD. Pavitt, K. (1984) “Sectoral Patterns of Technical Change: Towards a Taxonomy and Theory,” Research Policy, 13, pp. 343–73. Pierson, P. (2000) “Increasing Returns, Path Dependence, and the Study of Politics,” The American Political Science Review, 94 (2), pp.

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