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When Does a National Innovation System Start to Exhibit Systemic Behavior?

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  • Yongtae Park
  • Gwangman Park

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Despite the diversity of national profiles, the relationship between R&D structure and industrial structure, amongst others, is considered a crucial determinant of a country's national innovation system (NIS). This paper aims at investigating the systematic relationship between the two structures with respect to the portfolio of resource allocation. By proposing some operational definitions of R&D structure and industrial structure, a comparative analysis is conducted for the national profiles of OECD member economies. The correlation analysis reveals that, in an overall sense, there exists significant correlation between the two structures and the degree of correlation has increased over time, indicating that the linkage between innovation policy and industrial policy has become closer. Most interestingly, it is found that there may exist a threshold value of national R&D investment to GDP, around 2 percent, that makes the correlation between R&D structure and industrial structure significant. This threshold is the time point when R&D starts to exercise systematic effects on industrial structure and thus NIS starts to behave like a system.

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  • Yongtae Park & Gwangman Park, 2003. "When Does a National Innovation System Start to Exhibit Systemic Behavior?," Industry and Innovation, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 10(4), pages 403-414.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:indinn:v:10:y:2003:i:4:p:403-414
    DOI: 10.1080/1366271032000163649
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    1. Wang, Eric C., 2010. "Determinants of R&D investment: The Extreme-Bounds-Analysis approach applied to 26 OECD countries," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 39(1), pages 103-116, February.
    2. Ying Zhou & Sukanlaya Sawang & Xiaohua Yang, 2016. "Understanding The Regional Innovation Capacity In China After Economic Reforms," International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 20(06), pages 1-36, August.
    3. Wu, Jie & Ma, Zhenzhong & Zhuo, Shuaihe, 2017. "Enhancing national innovative capacity: The impact of high-tech international trade and inward foreign direct investment," International Business Review, Elsevier, vol. 26(3), pages 502-514.

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