Small Country Innovation Systems. Globalization, Change and Policy in Asia and Europe, C. Edquist, L. Hommen. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham (2008)

摘要

Since the seminal work of Freeman (1987), Lundvall (1988, 1992) and Nelson (1993) in the late-eighties and mid-nineties, the innovation systems concept has been widely spread among academics, practitioners and policy makers in developed and developing countries. The rapid diffusion of the concept is not surprising as the innovation systems approach provides a more realistic alternative explanation for innovation and growth than the one suggested by the neo-classical theorists; i.e., one based on learning, social structures and institutions instead of bounded rationality, perfect information and markets.