Analysis Of Innovation Policy Research Articles

Policy as a strategy to innovate in health care? A content analysis of innovation policies in Germany, 1994-2017.

Determining what innovation means for healthcare is becoming increasingly complex. Health policy addresses this challenge by designing initiatives to improve healthcare quality and efficiency, one example being the German Innovation Fund of 2015. We investigate the innovation concept underlying 25years of German health policy to analyse which and why some innovations are sustainable in a healthcare system. Expanding a previous approach to identify changes in the semantic understanding of 'innovation', we identify the semantic understandings of innovation, variation in health innovation policy contingencies. We use Henry Mintzberg's approach to classify patterns in health innovation policy to uncover predominant planning, adaptive, and entrepreneurial strategy modes. Systematic analysis resulted in 44 decision-relevant policy documents. Content was classified based on a qualitative content structuring method according to seven main categories and 57 subcategories. Results reveal that the innovation concept is undergoing a transformation from a science-based concept, dominated by planning and adaptive modes, towards an exploration of process innovations, dominated by adaptive and entrepreneurial strategy modes. This change in strategy is an essential contingency of high-volume instruments, such as the Innovation Fund, and their capability to support the emergence of process innovations that lead to structural changes in the healthcare system.

FACTORS AFFECTING THE INNOVATION ECONOMICS AND POSITION OF GEORGIA IN THE GLOBAL INNOVATION INDEX

The article, based on the development of Georgia's innovation economics strategy, examines the factors that have a positive and negative impact on the development of innovation economics. Aim and objectives of the research: This article aims to identify the determinants affecting the development of innovation economics as well as on the basis of the improvement of the legislative framework to create a favorable environment for the introduction of innovations, accelerate innovation processes, improve the institutional base and achieve rapid growth in the export production of high-tech products. The article based on the analysis of innovation policies defines the role of government in improving innovation processes. The objective of the research is a comparative analysis of Georgia and post-soviet countries according to the Global Innovation Index. In addition, the role of government in improving innovation processes in the country is defined based on the analysis of innovation policies. The impact of micro and macro factors on the innovation development of the country is highlighted. Besides, the recommendations have also been developed for creating a favorable environment for the introduction of innovations, diversifying the export production of high-tech products, as well as promoting both fundamental and technological research, and improving the innovation ecosystem.

A Comparative Analysis of Innovation Policies and Performances Between Singapore and Hong Kong

A Comparative Analysis of Innovation Policies and Performances Between Singapore and Hong Kong

Political failure: a missing piece in innovation policy analysis

ABSTRACT Within the field of innovation studies, researchers have identified systematic failures that hamper investment in R&D, innovation, and growth. Accordingly, researchers in this field often seek to provide policy recommendations on how to alleviate these failures. However, previous discussions have often been lacking considerations to the risks of political failures, meaning that policies fail to achieve their stated goals in a systematic manner. In response to this gap, this article aims to illustrate the concept of political failure and its relevance for innovation research. This is done by both discussing how political failure can impact innovation policy and by reviewing the prevalence of any discussions of political failure among top-ranked journals on innovation for the period 2010–2019, a total of 7161 articles. The results show that consideration of political failure is scarce, with a small number of papers that have a substantial analysis of political failures. If the awareness of political failures could be increased, this could lead to better policy recommendations with a more nuanced discussion of the risks and limitations of public policy.

A comparative analysis of innovation policies in Hong Kong and Shenzhen within the Greater Bay Area initiative

AbstractCombining documentary analysis with hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA), we conduct a comparative study of innovation policies in two municipalities included in the Greater Bay Area (GBA) initiative—the Chinese government’s plan to link eleven cities into an economic and business hub. After identifying innovation policies/agencies in Hong Kong and Shenzhen, we apply the HCA to compare similarities and differences between their innovation policies and assess how these policies align with the ‘cross-border regional innovation system’ (CBRIS) conceptual approach. We find that Hong Kong’s innovation policies are multitudinous, fragmented, and overlapping, whereas Shenzhen’s innovation policies are more targeted and more clearly differentiated, with a strong focus on strategic emerging industries. The two cities could strengthen their developing but weakly integrated CBRIS by collaborating in four areas of innovation policy: talent recruitment, joint R&D activities, enterprise competitiveness, and support for start-ups. The GBA initiative can succeed by driving innovation from a CBRIS perspective.

Industrial revitalization via industry 4.0 – A comparative policy analysis among China, Germany and the USA

In the second decade of the 21st century, rapid proliferation of technology and intensified global competition have created a sense of urgency for governments of developed and developing nations alike to engage in major industrial revitalization, leading to global emergence of something generically known of as Industry 4.0, with a core of industrial transformation, revitalization and development. These critical government programs are expected to drastically change the global structures of major industrial sectors. This paper aims at developing a comparative analysis of innovation policy amid the industrial revitalization of Industry 4.0 among China, Germany and the USA, with a focus on differentiation of specific policy instruments announced by these governments for their preferential developments. This research provides a theoretical analysis of innovation policy but adopts a rather pragmatic approach, with the policy framework of Rothwell and Zegveld [3] adopted as a basis for the anatomy of innovation policies.Results suggest that the policy orientation of the USA tends to favor demand-side policy, public services, political and education and training policies, whereas policy preferences in Germany tends to favor demand-side policy, public services, scientific and technical development and political ones; while it is environmental-side policy, political, legal and regulatory, and public service policies for China. Due to all policy tools are given equal weight in this cross-national analysis, the findings of this study may not easily be generalized to all industrial sectors and may be subject to other interpretations.

An innovation policy framework for upgrading firm absorptive capacities in the context of catching-up economies

The paper addresses the ‘regional innovation paradox’ referring to the lower capacity to absorb public funds earmarked for the promotion of innovation in the peripheral regions. The key aim is thus to propose and test a conceptual framework of tailored innovation policy routes that aim at stimulating absorptive capacities of firms. Literature analysis helps to distill determinants of absorptive capacity at firm and system levels. Analysis of innovation policies applied by the Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries in 2007-2013 is used to determine the gap between mainstream innovation policies and business capacity building needs. The paper presents an integrative conceptual ‘stairway of competence’ framework, mapping four innovator types with alternative policy routes. An assessment of innovation policies in the selected CEE countries is provided. We find that mainstream innovation policies in the selected countries mainly focused on two routes: strengthening the capacities of mature innovators and the uptake of existing technology. There is little evidence that this approach had any clear effects on structural change in the CEE economies. These findings suggest that a more tailor-made approach to innovation capacity building is needed, taking into account the current capacity levels within the target groups. These findings are especially relevant to the use of European Union cohesion policy funds and the implementation of the smart specialization strategies. Although the CEE is the main context for the framework, its implications are applicable to other catching-up and peripheral regions more widely.

Economic specialization and diversification at the country and regional level: introducing a conceptual framework to study innovation policy logics

ABSTRACTWhile there has been a shared understanding that innovation policy is about rendering institutional change, there has been an emerging interest in identifying the institutional logics underlying innovation policy. To date, few studies have attempted to conceptualise these logics. This paper develops a novel conceptual framework for understanding innovation policy logics based on seminal contributions from organizational and economic theory. The framework distinguishes four logics, namely, specialized exploitation, diversified exploitation, specialized exploration, and diversified exploration. It is illustrated in the empirical analysis of innovation policies and development on both national and regional levels in Norway and Finland. The findings reveal that in both countries there is a movement towards increasingly diversified innovation strategies, despite differences in logics underpinning the policies.

Innovation Policy and the Economy: Introduction to Volume 18

Innovation Policy and the Economy: Introduction to Volume 18

Shaping innovation in health care: A content analysis of innovation policies in the English NHS, 1948–2015

Governments around the world seek to design policies that enhance the innovative capacity of public service. Hence, identifying the underlying meanings attributed to innovation concepts in public policies is critical, as these very understandings inform not only the policy discourses, but also the overall institutional landscape regulating innovation activities. This paper examines such fundamental definitional aspects in the specific context of the National Health Service in England. For this purpose, it traces the evolution of the innovation concept in policy discourse based on the analysis of 21 key policy documents published or commissioned by the English Department of Health between 1948 and 2015. Systematic analysis of these texts reveals that policymakers’ conception of healthcare innovation broadened considerably over time. English health innovation policy initially focused on basic biomedical research. Subsequently, it entered a transitional period, zeroing in on science- and technology-based innovation. Finally, this focus gradually shifted to a broader conception of innovation translating into health, economic, and service design benefits.

Structural asymmetries, innovation measurement and innovation policies in the EU

Abstract Deep asymmetries in economic structures across EU member states became evident in the context of the recent crises in the eurozone. Notwithstanding, innovation policy analysis at the EU level tends to overlook these asymmetries. The use of innovation scoreboards – such as the Innovation Union Scoreboard (IUS) – as a main device for policy monitoring and benchmarking adds to the common tendency for one-size-fits-all approaches to innovation policy. In fact, the methodology underlying the construction of the IUS largely ignores the wide variety of economic structures among the countries under analysis. This article shows that once each country’s economic structure is considered the assessment of innovation strengths and weakness at the national level may change significantly. Policy recommendations may be improved accordingly.

Multi-criteria analysis of innovation policies in favour of solar mobility in France by 2030

As part of France's political intentions to reduce CO2 emissions in building and transport, this work offers an analysis from the perspective of a public authority on the various innovation policies for the deployment of electric vehicles powered by solar photovoltaic electricity (PV) by the year 2030. This innovation involves enhancing the synergy between buildings and mobility by associating positive energy houses with electric vehicles. The vehicle battery, charged primarily using PV electricity, could also provide a way of storing intermittent solar-generated electricity for later use.The aim of this article is to implement a decision-making model for public administration which can select the best innovation policies based on a number of criteria reflecting their major goals in terms of policies relating to energy, economics, social cohesion and “factor 4″ (to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by a factor of 4 by 2050 compared with 1990 levels). The methodology developed herein has been applied to a concrete case, with some resulting recommendations which may be of use for the public authorities: simultaneously combine research in favour of solar mobility technologies and apply a relatively high carbon tax. Such recommendations are mitigated by the choice of the data set and the methodological shortcomings.

INNOVATION POLICY: RATIONALES, LESSONS AND CHALLENGES

AbstractInnovation policy has emerged as a new field of economic policy during the last few decades. This paper explores the rationales for national innovation policies, as laid out in the existing literature on the subject, and considers what the lessons and challenges for theory and practice in this area are. Innovation policy attempts to influence innovation activity, often with the purpose of increasing economic growth. But it can also have more specific aims such as preventing unwarranted climate change, improving national health, and so on. The increasing attention given to innovation policy at the national level from the 1990s onwards went hand in hand with the development of a new, systemic understanding of innovation, which in a better way than before accounted for the ‘stylised facts’ of innovation activity as identified by empirical work. The system approach, as the paper shows, came to have a significant influence on the subsequent policy discourse. Drawing on recent advances in innovation‐systems theory, a synthetic framework for the analysis of innovation policy is developed and used to highlight issues of particular relevance for the conduct of innovation policy and future scholarly work in this area.

Polityka innowacyjna i Narodowy System Innowacji w Polsce

The purpose of this article is analysis of innovation policy, understood as a factor conditioning the institutional and organizational efficiency and effectiveness of the National System of Innovation (NSI), suggesting desirable areas of state intervention in relation to the NSI in Poland. The article consists of four parts. The first part presents the stages in the development of innovation policy and recognizes the links between innovation policy and the development of research on innovation processes. The second part presents potential areas of state intervention and the main instruments used within the framework of innovation policy. The third part presents the theory of NSI which – while referring to the links between various NSI elements – indicates a wide range of potential possibilities of indirect support for innovation processes. The last part identifies the areas of state intervention which are important from the point of view of Poland’s NSI development.

Types of knowledge and diversity of business-academia collaborations: implications for measurement and policy

Analysis of business-academia (B-A) collaborations typically relies on a single method, addressing one or two major research questions. In contrast, this article tackles both research and development (RD and (ii) different types of firms have different needs. Thus, more refined policy measures are to be devised to promote B-A collaboration more effectively, better tuned to the needs of the actors, based on a relevant taxonomy of their co-operations. Evaluation criteria for academics should also be revised to remove some major obstacles, currently blocking more fruitful B-A co-operation. Several findings can be generalised beyond the cases considered, suggesting the need for a deeper understanding of the role of intermediaries in the Triple Helix and for broader comparative analysis of innovation policies. The research design to analyse B-A collaborations always needs to be tailored to the innovation system in question, just as the concomitant policy recommendations.

The Analysis of Innovation Policies for New Energy Vehicle Technology

Based on Yu ling Liu’s innovation policy analysis framework, this paper sorted the introduction of innovation policies for new energy vehicles in various periods in China and comparatively analyzes the domestic and foreign policy, which led to the discovery of “three similarities and three differences”. Also, it raised the idea of strategic adjustment for new energy vehicle technology innovation, providing a reference for decision-making to further promote the new energy vehicle technology progress and industrialization.

Types of Knowledge and Diversity of Business-Academia Collaborations: Implications for Measurement and Policy

Analysis of business-academia (B-A) collaborations typically relies on a single method, addressing one or two major research questions. In contrast, this article tackles both RD and (ii) different types of firms have different needs. Thus, more refined policy measures are to be devised to promote B-A collaboration more effectively, better tuned to the needs of the actors, based on a relevant taxonomy of their co-operations. Evaluation criteria for academics should also be revised to remove some major obstacles, currently blocking more fruitful B-A co-operation. Several findings can be generalised beyond the cases considered, suggesting the need for a deeper understanding of the role of intermediaries in the Triple Helix and for broader comparative analysis of innovation policies. The research design to analyse B-A collaborations always needs to be tailored to the innovation system in question, just as the concomitant policy recommendations.

The Analysis of Innovation Policies of the Energy Service Industries in Taiwan

This paper reports on a strategic analysis of the development of Energy Service Companies. A policy model is used to assess the strategic positioning entailing a two-dimensional analysis, containing ESCO industry’s strategy objective and poilicy objective. By this way, we could find in different segmentation there will have different industrail innovation requirements. Finally, we could give different strategies for Taiwan.

A Comparative Analysis of Innovation Policy and Systemic Instruments: With Focus on the Biotechnology Industry in Japan and Singapore

A Comparative Analysis of Innovation Policy and Systemic Instruments: With Focus on the Biotechnology Industry in Japan and Singapore

Innovation policy studies between theory and practice A literature review based analysis

This paper reviews the emerging literature on innovation policy from a practitioner’s perspective, reviews the policy implications of an evolutionary perspective in economics, and identifies newly emerging areas of innovation policy analysis. We show that an innovation system is a dominant policy discourse, that there are limits of policy implications from an evolutionary perspective, and that there is a need for explicitly policy motivated analysis grounded in a broad evolutionary perspective. Innovation policy studies are an area in pre-paradigmatic stages whose dynamism originates from the interaction of theory, policy, and policy learning. The limited usefulness of policy implications derived directly from either conceptual or empirical analysis requires more explicitly policy focused research.