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Towards a new vision of innovation through COVID-19?: A comparative reading of 11 countries’ strategies

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  • Hunter McGuire

    (OECD)

  • Caroline Paunov

    (OECD)

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This paper discusses how countries’ vision for science, technology and innovation (STI) priorities has evolved through COVID-19. The analysis was conducted on a sample of 171 STI strategy documents from 11 countries that were released between 2013 and 2021. Depending on the context, these documents seek to build consensus, manage actors, communicate or signal directions for policy, or achieve internal organisational motives. Most of the documents that have emerged since the COVID-19 crisis focus on a dominant ambitious societal goal and specific technologies to implement that goal. For example, environmental sustainability is a shared goal across different countries’ STI strategies, but its specific meaning differs. Most countries’ STI strategies also identify digitalisation as an important tool to achieve other socio-economic goals. Inclusivity is prominent in agendas reflecting country-specific circumstance. Improving resilience is a shared priority and increased in prominence with the COVID-19 experience.

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  • Hunter McGuire & Caroline Paunov, 2022. "Towards a new vision of innovation through COVID-19?: A comparative reading of 11 countries’ strategies," OECD Science, Technology and Industry Policy Papers 136, OECD Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:oec:stiaac:136-en
    DOI: 10.1787/15475840-en
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    Keywords

    COVID-19; digital transition; digitalization; green transition; inclusivity; innovation; resilience; STI policy; sustainability; technology;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
    • I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
    • Q01 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - General - - - Sustainable Development
    • Q55 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environmental Economics: Technological Innovation
    • O38 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Government Policy

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