Drivers Esenciales de los Sistemas Nacionales de Innovación
José Luis Hervás Oliver
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Drivers Esenciales de los Sistemas Nacionales de Innovación | ||
| Published in: | Engineering for a Smarter Planet: Innovation, ITC, and Computational Tools for Sustainable Development: Proceedings of the 9th Latin American and Caribbean Conference for Engineering and Technology | |
| Date of Conference: | August 3-5, 2011 | |
| Location of Conference: | Medellin, Colombia | |
| Authors: | Ronald Rojas Alvarado José Luis Hervás Oliver | |
| Refereed Paper: | #42 | |
Abstract | ||
| The paper presents an attempt to tackle the main gaps in the national innovation systems (NSI) literature: the problem specifying the boundaries of the NSI and the lack of connection between theory and empirics. For this purpose the paper uses 55 countries as sample and constructs an NSI index based on a factor analysis of 28 variables. Empirical evidence shows that a firm's strategies, technology infrastructure, institutions, education and transfer knowledge, i.e. linkages, are the main components of the NSI and are responsible for an important part of the differences across countries on the innovative output measured by GDP and patents. The implications are important for policymakers and the academia. | ||