Emergence of a societal challenges based innovation policy in market-based innovation systems: lessons from Estonia

Erkki Karo and Veiko Lember

The Other Canon Foundation and Tallinn University of Technology Working Papers in Technology Governance and Economic Dynamics from TUT Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance

Abstract: The societal challenges based approach to STI policy is currently one of the key ways the EU seeks to break away from the linear and since-push driven policy thinking. This seems to raise complex challenges of policy legitimization, rationalization and institutionalization especially in countries that have tried to build market-based innovation systems. Based on the case study of Estonia, we show that in addition to developing new policy mixes and coordination instruments, such policy shift may also require re-thinking of core STI policy rationales and legitimization practices; and these may have to be further supported by experimental policy approaches and institutional innovations for changing the habits and routines of key STI system actors.

Pages: 34 pages
Date: 2016-01
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