The regional innovation paradox: Innovation policy and industrial policy

被引：5

作者：

Oughton C. ^{[1
]}

Landabaso M. ^{[2
]}

Morgan K. ^{[3
]}

机构：

[1] School of Management and Organizational Psychology, Birkbeck, University of London, London WC1E 7HX, Malet Street

[2] DG Regional Policy, CSM21/156, EC Commission, B-1049 Bruxelles

[3] Department of City and Regional Planning, Glamorgan Building, Cardiff CF10 3WA, King Edward VII Avenue

来源：

Journal of Technology Transfer | 2002年 / 27卷 / 01期

关键词：

The RS policy was introduced in 1994 and is financed from m ainstream industrial policy (the Structural Funds) with the aim of encouraging lagging regions to formulate and implement a long-term strategic fram ework for using the Structural Funds to promote innovation. Each RS costs around 500,000 Euro (250,000 Euro is provided by the European Commission with 50% matched funding from the region) and lasts two years. At the end of this period the main ‘deliverable’ is the design and implementation of an innovation driven strategic framework for the expenditure of the Structural Funds. The cost of a RS project should be viewed in relation to the industrial policy (Structural Funds) budget that it aims to drive. In a typical region in receipt of Structural Funds the cost of an RS project is significantly less than 1% of the total budget. For example, in the West Midlands region of the UK about £4570 Euro came into the region in the last round of the Structural Funds Programme and the total cost of the RS policy was 500,000 Euro, or 0.09 % of the total European industrial policy budget for the region. The idea is that by spending a small additional sum of money on innovation policy and networking key players, the RS policy aims to increase the efficiency of industrial policy by ensuring that the Structural Funds are spent strategically and targeted at innovation;

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10.1023/A:1013104805703

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摘要：

This paper explores the regional innovation paradox and its policy implications. The regional innovation paradox refers to the apparent contradiction between the comparatively greater need to spend on innovation in lagging regions and their relatively lower capacity to absorb public funds earmarked for the promotion of innovation and to invest in innovation related activities compared to more advanced regions. Empirical analysis of the nature of the paradox shows that there are strong complementarities between business, education and government spending on R&D and that technology/innovation policy and industrial policies tend to work in opposite directions. Our analysis suggests that resolution of the paradox requires policies that: (i) increase the innovation capacity of regions by working both on the demand and the supply side of the system to increase both private and public sector investment in innovation activity; and (ii) integrate technology policy and industrial policy by encouraging expenditure on innovation activity within mainstream industrial policy programmes. The penultimate section of the paper outlines and assesses policy initiatives/experiments along these lines and suggests how they might be developed in the future. © 2002 Kluwer Academic Publishers.

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