Can the National Innovation Systems of the New EU Member States Be Improved?

Urmas Varblane, David Dyker, Dorel Tamm and Nick von Tunzelmann

Post-Communist Economies, 2007, vol. 19, issue 4, 399-416

Abstract: This article outlines the main directions of the development of national innovation systems in the new EU member states as catch-up economies emerging from a period of systemic change. Attempts simply to copy the experience of the high-income economies in building national innovation systems are misconceived. That experience needs to be adapted to the specific conditions of catch-up countries with a unique systemic heritage. The dominant linear innovation model should be replaced as a basis for thinking and policy making by an interactive, learning-based approach. Catch-up economies such as these need to improve significantly their levels of innovation diffusion management and networking. A symbiotic approach to the balance of high- and low-tech industries is needed. Managerial and organisational competence is at least as important as technological competence.

Date: 2007
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