Abstract
In 1998 the first competence centre programme was introduced to Austria. The programme was a major policy innovation for the country, not only due to its novel instruments and goals, but also because it was created in a new way, breaking with the policy style dominant in the RTD policy field before. The paper looks into the question why this major policy innovation could take place. This analysis applies a policy learning approach, and considers the knowledge resources utilized for the programme creation, implementation and evaluation as well as the forms of learning which took place.
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The programme was a major policy innovation for the country, due to its novel instruments and goals, and because it was created in a new way, breaking with the policy style dominant in the RESEARCH and technological development (RTD) policy field before
IN 1998 A NEW RESEARCH and technological development (RTD) policy programme was created in Austria, which was radically different from previous policy measures
Summary
In 1998 the first competence centre programme was introduced to Austria. The programme was a major policy innovation for the country, due to its novel instruments and goals, and because it was created in a new way, breaking with the policy style dominant in the RTD policy field before. IN 1998 A NEW RESEARCH and technological development (RTD) policy programme was created in Austria, which was radically different from previous policy measures This initiative, the competence centre programme Kp-us, was not new by international standards - it was strongly influenced by predecessors in other Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries, such as Canada and Sweden. This paper tries to answer the question why a major policy innovation such as the Kplus Programme was possible in an RTD system, which before re jected changes for a prolonged period of time (Mayer, 2003). It is interested in the question how the programme developed in the following years, marked by frequent and encompassing changes in the Austrian RTD system. In an attempt to answer these questions the paper analyses the pol icy process leading up to the Kplus Programme beginning from the mid 1990s, when the idea of having competence centres in which science and in dustry would work together in the form of public-
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