The Discursive Construction of Innovation Policy in Peripheralising Estonia

Schulz Sebastian ()
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Schulz Sebastian: Public Economics and Policy, School of Economics and Business Administration, University of Tartu, Juhan Liivi 4–214, 50409 Tartu, Estonia

European Spatial Research and Policy, 2017, vol. 24, issue 2, 77-91

Abstract: An innovation-driven agenda in regional development policy has emerged in the European Union against the backdrop of peripheralisation, especially in Central and Eastern Europe. Using a discursive analytical framework, the article investigates the ways in which peripheralisation is manifested through language, practices and power-rationalities in Estonian innovation policy discourse. The analysis is footed on key strategic policy documents and semi-structured expert interviews. Findings suggest that Estonian innovation policy’s main narrative of the ‘knowledge-based economy’ accepts growing disparities on sub-national level in order to overcome peripherality at European scale and narrows the range of policy solutions perceived as suitable.

Keywords: discourse; innovation policy; Estonia; peripheralisation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1515/esrp-2017-0010

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