Recent Trends in the Research on National Innovation Systems

Markus Balzat and Horst Hanusch ()

No 254, Discussion Paper Series from Universitaet Augsburg, Institute for Economics

Abstract: In this paper, we give an overview on recent developments in the research on national innovation systems (NIS). Essentially, we identify three development lines of the concept. These are policy-oriented studies that frequently combine the NIS approach with the terminology of corporate benchmarking, contributions to formalize the concept of NIS through descriptive or analytical models, and NIS studies of countries beyond the group of highly industrialized economies. It follows from the analysis of these research trends that the concept has developed in distinctive directions. In international comparisons of innovation systems, heterogeneity in the structure of the systems is only marginally taken into account, an aspect that may reduce the explanatory power of such system-level comparisons. Contrary to this, historically grown organizational and institutional structures are extensively described and considered in NIS studies of industrializing countries, a characteristic which ties up with early studies of national innovation systems.

Keywords: innovation; national innovation systems; comparative studies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O11 O31 O50 P51 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2003-11
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