Policy Learning and Organizational Capacities in Innovation Policies

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    Abstract

    Bengt-Åke Lundvall’s work has underlined the importance of policy learning for inducing innovation systems’ adaptability. In spite of his efforts and of the general interest in this topic, studies of policy
    learning in innovation policy continue to be scarce. Elaborating from recent theoretical advances, the paper identifies three levels of policy learning and argues that their effects on innovation systems are
    related to specific capacities of the relevant organizations implementing change. This analytical framework is used in the study of trans-national policy learning in Europe in the area of science–industry relations, showing the importance of capacities (or lack thereof). This calls for the practical need of addressing organizational capacity-building, in particular of analytical capacity, for truly strategic innovation policy-making.
    OriginalsprogEngelsk
    TidsskriftScience and Public Policy
    Vol/bind38
    Udgave nummer9
    Sider (fra-til)725-734
    ISSN0302-3427
    StatusUdgivet - 2011

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