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Transformations in Research, Higher Education and the Academic MarketContemporary Research and Innovation Policy: A Double Disservice?

Transformations in Research, Higher Education and the Academic Market: Contemporary Research and... [The background of this chapter is the frustration of some European policy practitioners over the contemporary governmental commission on innovation policy. The policy practitioner’s dilemma is this: how are we to attain national effects through policy investments when the business landscape is characterised by interdependent, transnational business networks? The commissioners expected the policy practitioners’ actions to boost research and technological development (RTD), which would then result in innovation and industrial renewal within the investing nation or region. The best scenario, sketched by the governmental commission, was that the policy practitioners’ actions in terms of research and technological support would lead to innovation, new or renewed companies, increased investments, employment, tax income and growth. It was taken for granted that these benefits would occur within the borders of the community that made the policy investments. But when the policy practitioners started work on implementing this policy, problems arose. The companies and the research environments they faced daily were involved in business networks that by no means stop at any national, regional or local community borders.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Transformations in Research, Higher Education and the Academic MarketContemporary Research and Innovation Policy: A Double Disservice?

Part of the Higher Education Dynamics Book Series (volume 39)
Editors: Rider, Sharon; Hasselberg, Ylva; Waluszewski, Alexandra
Waluszewski, Alexandra
Transformations in Research, Higher Education and the Academic Market — Nov 4, 2012
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Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Copyright
© Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
ISBN
978-94-007-5248-1
Pages
71 –95
DOI
10.1007/978-94-007-5249-8_5
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Abstract

[The background of this chapter is the frustration of some European policy practitioners over the contemporary governmental commission on innovation policy. The policy practitioner’s dilemma is this: how are we to attain national effects through policy investments when the business landscape is characterised by interdependent, transnational business networks? The commissioners expected the policy practitioners’ actions to boost research and technological development (RTD), which would then result in innovation and industrial renewal within the investing nation or region. The best scenario, sketched by the governmental commission, was that the policy practitioners’ actions in terms of research and technological support would lead to innovation, new or renewed companies, increased investments, employment, tax income and growth. It was taken for granted that these benefits would occur within the borders of the community that made the policy investments. But when the policy practitioners started work on implementing this policy, problems arose. The companies and the research environments they faced daily were involved in business networks that by no means stop at any national, regional or local community borders.]

Published: Nov 4, 2012

Keywords: Innovation Policy; National Border; User Network; Policy Investment; National Innovation System

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