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Convergence in Innovation

In: Changes in Innovation

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  • Jani Saarinen
  • Robert Have

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In the literature of economics and innovation, the concept of convergence has been approached from a plurality of perspectives. Most commonly, convergence has been understood in technological terms or in the context of regional economic development within or between nations. In the past, the innovation concept, however, has not been linked explicitly to convergence. During the last decades, by contrast, innovation has emerged in the discussions related to national and sectoral systems of innovations, as well as in the growth and development policy of EU. Here, innovation has become very prominent as a means of convergence. Despite of the emerging role of innovation in these discussions, innovations and innovativeness has always been analyzed with help of some proxies (like patents, R&D investments, etc.). Characteristics of innovations and innovation processes have not been taken more systematically into account when new policies are planned and executed.

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  • Jani Saarinen & Robert Have, 2009. "Convergence in Innovation," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Jani Saarinen & Nina Rilla (ed.), Changes in Innovation, chapter 8, pages 145-164, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-24862-5_8
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230248625_8
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