퍼지셋 질적비교분석(fs/QCA)을 적용한 국제비교

Abstract

S&T innovation capacity pertains to a country's capability in generating valuable outcomes at the final stage, which implies economic and social impact through innovation and progress in science and technology. Its assessment encompasses the components of the national innovation system alongside their interactions. There are numerous approaches suggested for evaluating S&T innovation ability, but in reality, 31 indicators are utilised to gauge and evaluate capacity in five categories encompassing 14 items; performance, resources, activities, networks, and environment. This study seeks to pinpoint the primary sectoral determinants of S&T innovation capability utilising the outcomes of yearly national S&T innovation capability tests. The study examined 18 countries, encompassing major developed nations and leading S&T innovators, using the results of the most recent five-year assessments of S&T innovation capabilities. Fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fs/QCA) was employed as the analytical method to identify the determinants of S&T innovation capabilities.
 The fs/QCA aims to integrate case-centred qualitative analysis and variable-centred quantitative analysis into social science methodology for determining factors affecting S&T innovation capabilities. The fs/QCA results identified the combinations influencing each of the four factors of S&T innovation capability and revealed similarities by grouping countries into the same category for each combination.