Beyond the "Charmed Circle" of OECD. New directions for studies of national innovation systems.

Autor/inn/en	Delvenne, Pierre; Thoreau, Francois
Titel	Beyond the "Charmed Circle" of OECD. New directions for studies of national innovation systems.
Quelle	In: Minervaa : review of science, learning and policy, 50 (2012) 2, S. 205-219 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0026-4695; 1573-1871
DOI	10.1007/s11024-012-9195-5
Schlagwörter	Hochschulsystem; OECD (Organisation für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung); Ausland; Lateinamerika
Abstract	In this paper, we engage with the widespread and influential approach of National Innovation Systems (NIS). We discuss its adequacy to non-OECD countries, especially in Latin America where it tends to be reified. Although the NIS approach is meant to address the most pressing needs of the economies it applies to, we argue that it would benefit from developing a more encompassing scope, allowing integration of greater diversity and complexity. By retracing the history of regimes of science, technology and innovation in Latin America, we explore the following paradox: whereas numerous Southern scholars urge the pressing need to develop an innovation agenda for Southern countries with a "Southern framework of thought", they continue to heavily rely on a reductionist version of the NIS-approach that prevents such a "Southern perspective" to fully emerge. This creates problems for actors willing to use NIS more reflexively, and it also affects the effectivity of science, technology and innovation (STI) policies in non-OECD countries. We formulate a research agenda with three suggestions for further engaging NIS both conceptually and practically. Using such analytical perspectives, we argue, might benefit both to scholarly work about NIS, but could also allow for a better articulation with STI regimes in Southern countries. (HRK / Abstract übernommen).
Erfasst von	Hochschulrektorenkonferenz, Bonn
Update	2012/4