In the literature on National Innovation Systems (NIS),the role of country specific institutional framework in the light of technological capabilities has been discussed at length. However, the analysis of an innovation system in the light of emerging technologies is a rather new phenomenon. Bartholomew (1997) and Senker (2001) have attempted to analyze such an innovation system for biotechnolo...

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) States are in the transition toward a new, knowledge-based economy. As these states diversify from a petroleum-based economy to knowledge-based industries, the countries’ competitiveness and performance increasingly will depend on their abilities to foster an indigenous capacity for technological innovation. This paper presents a broad framework for a national...

The innovation systems approach is almost a quarter of a century old, if we start counting from Chris Freeman’s seminal book on the Japanese national innovation system (NSI) (Freeman, 1987). With the publication of the reader edited by Dosi et al. (1988), incorporating the chapters by Freeman, Lundvall, and Nelson, the approach gained theoretical ground even if two slightly different perspectiv...

this article discusses the influence of policies on the development of biopharmaceuticals. we choose the experiences of taiwan for our empirical study and focus on the evolution between 2000 and 2008; in the period of time the country provides an interesting example for further exploration of biopharmaceutical policies. among all the policies, the two national programs (national research progra...

It is widely acknowledged that innovation is a key factor for competitiveness and that output growth and productivity depend on the development and diffusion of new technologies (OECD, 1997). However, the innovation process is not linear, but a complex and interactive one, involving business and non-business institutions. Kline and Rosenberg’s (1986) “chain-linked” interactive model is an examp...

National innovation systems are influencing the path of innovation diffusion like e-business. Important enablers of e-business diffusion are IT mature and innovation friendly enterprises. An indicator of IT maturity is the diffusion of former innovations like electronic data interchange (EDI). The innovation adoption behavior can be described as the adopting date after occurrence of an innovati...

The knowledge service platform is seen as the vital intermediaries in innovation cycle, and for users to locate, exchange and acquire knowledge in a systematic way. It is increasingly recognizing the powerful role that knowledge service platform provide in building a national innovation capacity. The knowledge service platforms in the China’s national innovation system, mostly based on the digi...

It has been shown that over a 20 year period of time the OECD countries have converged in terms of their aggregate technological effort, but this trend covers diverging patterns of sectoral innovative activities even for the countries at the forefront of the " convergence club " (Archibugi and Pianta 1994). This evidence supports the relevance of the National Systems of Innovation (NSI) perspec...

In the article innovation-reproductive and rent-generating function of national welfare is exposed, necessity and real ways of national welfare innovative potential look-ahead analytical estimates methodology and tools’ revision in a context of globalization trends are offered, complex analysis of the results of system parametristic indication of the strategy of national welfare development in ...