Convergence in Innovation

Jani Saarinen and Robert Have

Chapter 8 in Changes in Innovation, 2009, pp 145-164 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In the literature of economics and innovation, the concept of convergence has been approached from a plurality of perspectives. Most commonly, convergence has been understood in technological terms or in the context of regional economic development within or between nations. In the past, the innovation concept, however, has not been linked explicitly to convergence. During the last decades, by contrast, innovation has emerged in the discussions related to national and sectoral systems of innovations, as well as in the growth and development policy of EU. Here, innovation has become very prominent as a means of convergence. Despite of the emerging role of innovation in these discussions, innovations and innovativeness has always been analyzed with help of some proxies (like patents, R&D investments, etc.). Characteristics of innovations and innovation processes have not been taken more systematically into account when new policies are planned and executed.

Keywords: Innovation Policy; Technology Policy; Product Class; National Innovation System; Herfindahl Index (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230248625_8

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