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The challenge of alignment and barriers for the design and implementation of science, technology and innovation policies for innovation systems in developing countries

In: Research Handbook on Innovation Governance for Emerging Economies

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  • Cristina Chaminade
  • Ramón Padilla-Pérez

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This chapter aims at discussing the main challenges of designing and implementing science, technology and innovation (STI) policies in developing countries. In particular, it addresses the problems of: a) aligning STI policies with the national economic development agenda, as well as coordinating STI policies among different ministries and other public organizations, and among diverse government levels (horizontal alignment); and b) aligning rationales, objectives, instruments and specific problems of the system (vertical alignment). In addition, the main barriers for designing and implementing STI policies are examined. The chapter combines theory and concepts with examples of STI policy design and implementation in Asian and Latin American countries to illustrate the arguments. The analysis of STI policies as innovation system policies suggests that developing countries need policies that are comprehensive, evidence based, long-term and aligned.

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  • Cristina Chaminade & Ramón Padilla-Pérez, 2017. "The challenge of alignment and barriers for the design and implementation of science, technology and innovation policies for innovation systems in developing countries," Chapters, in: Stefan Kuhlmann & Gonzalo Ordóñez-Matamoros (ed.), Research Handbook on Innovation Governance for Emerging Economies, chapter 6, pages 181-204, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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    • O25 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Development Planning and Policy - - - Industrial Policy
    • O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
    • O38 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Government Policy

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