Mapping National Innovation Systems in the OECD Area
Markus Balzat () and
Andreas Pyka
No 279, Discussion Paper Series from Universitaet Augsburg, Institute for Economics
Abstract:
The purpose of this paper is to present new findings about the structure and the organization of innovative activities in selected OECD countries. By using the approach of national sys-tems of innovation as a conceptual framework and by applying multivariate data analysis techniques, this paper aims to add new insights into the specific structures of the eighteen national systems of innovation under study. A central result from this comparative study is a categorisation of national systems of innovation into different clusters, with each cluster rep-resenting distinctive cross-national structural similarities. By accounting for sectoral specif-ics, the commonly taken perspective on national innovation systems is extended. Thereby, a more precise picture of the structural composition of the analyzed national innovation sys-tems accrues. Also, a new linkage between the two approaches of national and sectoral inno-vation systems is created.
Keywords: national innovation systems; comparative study; classification (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C33 O11 O31 P51 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005-09
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