The Information Resources Allocation Mechanisms in The National Innovation System of Finland

Abstract

Nowadays, scientific and technical innovation is the key force to enhance general competitive advantage and international status of the country. All countries have regarded strengthening the independent innovation capability as the strategic basis for national sustainable development, and are committed to their own national innovation system (NIS) planning and construction. NIS is a complex open system composed of different innovation subjects, which undertake the important task of national innovation and development. In the information environment, the NIS can’t work without a strong guarantee of information resources, and the scientific, rational, optimal allocation of these information resources. As the first country to put forward the NIS, Finland has achieved distinctly in knowledge innovation, information resources allocation and so on, thus it is a typical example for information resources allocation of other countries. This article starts from the research on the basic structure of Finland’s NIS, then analyze the information flow mechanism of the system. According to the present innovation situation of Finland, this article focuses on three types of information resources allocation mechanism used by Finland government currently. They are multi-input mechanism, dynamic distribution mechanism and integrated configuration mechanism. The present situation of information resources allocation of Chinese NIS has been compared with that of Finland, and then some concrete problems in China information resources allocation are pointed out. With reference to Finland’s success, this article suggests that China government should improve the information resources allocation of NIS from the following four aspects: management model, implement process, structure of resource input and the construction of service platform.