THE RELEVANCE OF INTERACTIONS IN INNOVATION SYSTEMS: HOW TO CONSOLIDATE THE FRAMEWORK

Jon Mikel Zabala-Iturriagagoitia and Fernando Jimenez-Saez ()
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Jon Mikel Zabala-Iturriagagoitia: Department of Education, Universities and Research of the Basque Country
Fernando Jimenez-Saez: Ciudad Politécnica de la Innovación (Spain)
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Jon Mikel Zabala Iturriagagoitia

Romanian Journal of Economics, 2007, vol. 25, issue 2(34), 22-46

Abstract: Innovation Systems constitute an analysis framework which tries to identify the agents, and the interactions produced among them within an innovation system, endowing thus authorities of a tool for the definition of innovation policies. Accordingly, cooperation or interaction related practices become crucial. However, there is a need for the development and implementation of a more sophisticated measures and indicators as regards these interactive patterns, both from a theoretical and a quantitative approach. This papers aims at empirically contributing to highlight the relevance of these interactions. In order to do that, we first start by offering a clear taxonomy of the Spanish regions concerning R&D and innovation activities, to then analyse the extent to which interactions are relevant or not by considering in this case Spain as the unit of analysis between 1995-2002.

Keywords: Innovation Systems; Interactions; Innovation Networks; Measures (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O18 O32 O38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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