Abstract
Innovation enhances human prosperity and well-being and is considered a major driver of economic growth. Yet, the innovation process varies in different countries and regions. Understanding the ‘how’ can help both policy makers and practitioners to facilitate innovation. We contribute to such understanding by comparing the development of two small, contrasting innovation systems in Finland and Alberta, Canada in their historical, economic, and social contexts – a type of research that has been called for but is rare in the systemic innovation research. Instead of describing components and outcomes only but change over time in innovation systems, we capture how they work. This and the comparison of systems with different rates of innovation and change offer a more grounded basis for policy and practice recommendations than comparisons to an abstract ideal, and also reveal some implications for the notion of path dependence in innovation systems.
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