Measuring technological capabilities at the country level: A survey and a menu for choice

被引：165

作者：

Archibugi, D

Coco, A

机构：

[1] Italian Natl Res Council, I-00185 Rome, Italy

[2] Harvard Univ, Ctr European Studies, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA

来源：

RESEARCH POLICY | 2005年 / 34卷 / 02期

基金：

美国国家科学基金会;

关键词：

innovation measurement; technological infrastructure; diffusion of innovations; human skills; economic and social indicators;

D O I：

10.1016/j.respol.2004.12.002

中图分类号：

C93 [管理学];

学科分类号：

12 ; 1201 ; 1202 ; 120202 ;

摘要：

Several new measures of national technological capabilities have recently been developed. These attempts are a result of an often-implicit theoretical consensus about the nature of technology. The aim of this article is to compare their methodologies and results. The World Economic Forum (WEF), the UN Development Program (UNDP), the UN Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO), and the RAND Corporation are the institutions that have provided the measures examined here. We compare these authoritative attempts with our own measure of technological capability, ArCo. The results provide a broadly comparable ranking of countries, although a few significant differences do emerge. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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页码：175 / 194

页数：20