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Reforms to the national research and research training system by the Commonwealth Government of Australia sought to effectively connect research conducted in universities to Australia's national innovation system. Research training has a key role in ensuring an adequate supply of highly skilled people for the national innovation system. During their studies, research students produce and disseminate a massive amount of new knowledge. Prior to this study, there was no research that examined the contribution of research training to Australia's national innovation system despite the existence of policy initiatives aiming to enhance this contribution. Given Australia's below average (but improving) innovation performance compared to other OECD countries, the inclusion of Finland and the United States provided further insights into the key research question. This study examined three obvious ways that research training contributes to the national innovation systems in the three countries: the international mobility and migration of research students and graduates, knowledge production and distribution by research students, and the impact of research training as advanced human capital formation on economic growth. Findings have informed the concept of a research training culture of innovation that aims to enhance the contribution of research training to Australia's national innovation system. Key features include internationally competitive research and research training environments; research training programs that equip students with economically-relevant knowledge and the capabilities required by employers operating in knowledge-based economies; attractive research careers in different sectors; a national commitment to R&D as indicated by high levels of gross and business R&D expenditure; high private and social rates of return from research training; and the horizontal coordination of key organisations that create policy for, and/or invest in research training.

This Master Thesis hinges on the concept of Innovation and its association with regional development as a phenomenon that has attracted both researchers and policy makers’ attention.  The thesis presents two different innovation perspectives on regional development – Innovation Systems and Complex Systems of Innovation, and applies them into the case-study of the Life Sciences Cluster in Lund. In order to do so, the key aspects of each of the perspectives are highlighted within the part devoted to the Framework of this thesis. Within these, the networks between organizations in the Innovation Systems and the actors and their interrelations in the Complex Systems perspective have been analyzed. The analysis of these aspects brings up similar outcomes in both perspectives applied, i.e. the creation of various organizations within the Cluster. Both of the perspectives account for the importance of Lund University for the creation of these organizations and subsequent development of the Life Sciences cluster.

Thesis (MScEng)--Stellenbosch University, 2012. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The concept of National Innovation System (NIS) as new conceptual framework appeared in the late 1980s. The framework of NIS not only focuses on the science and technology development of a country, but also on concerns about a nation’s demand and strategy. The best technology, as well as patents, can be found in developed countries. Their development leads world development in many ways and influences the development model in developing countries. Although it is not hard to see that they seem to be progressing well, the question is why development just happens in some countries. Even fast developing countries, like China, India, Brazil, and South Africa have fewer such well-known or successful business models, compared to developed countries. The thesis attempts to scrutinise the internal and external factors in NIS which may influence countries and the innovation of enterprises within South Africa and China. The thesis focuses on fundamental research of the NIS of South Africa and China. The objective of the thesis is to find out which factors are involved in the NIS and how the system works in South Africa and China. The purpose of the study is to ascertain the difference and gap between these two countries and other more innovative countries, as well as the differences between South Africa and China. The literature study and quantitative method will be used to research and compare the NIS of South Africa and China. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die konsep van Nasionale Innovasie Stelsels (NIS) as ʼn nuwe konsepsionele raamwerk het in die laat 1980s na vore gekom. Die raamwerk van NIS het beide op die wetenskap en tegnologiese ontwikkeling, asook nasionale strategie van ʼn land gefokus. Die beste tegnologie sowel as patentregte kan in ontwikkelde lande gevind word. Hul bydrae is aan die voor front van globale ontwikkeling en het ʼn direkte invloed op ontwikkelingsmodelle vir ander ontwikkelende lande. Die voorspoed in hierdie lande is vir almal duidelik, maar die vraag is waarom ontwikkeling slegs plaasvind in sommige lande. Lande soos China, Indië, Brasilië en Suid Afrika het minder goeie en suksesvolle besigheidsmodelle, in vergelyking met ontwikkelde lande, alhoewel ontwikkeling steeds vinnig plaasvind. Die tesis poog om interne en eksterne faktore van die NIS te ontleed wat sal bydra tot die innovasie van ondernemingsontwikkeling in Suid Afrika en China. Die tesis fokus op fundamentele navorsing op die NIS van Suid Afrika en China. Die doel van die tesis is om uit te vind watter faktore die NIS in beide Suid Afrika en China beïnvloed. Die besondere oogmerk van die studie is om verskille en gapings tussen die twee lande en ander innovasie georiënteerde lande te beklemtoon, asook die verskil tussen Suid Afrika en China. Die literatuurstudie en kwantitatiewe metode word geïmplementeer om die NIS in Suid Afrika en China te ondersoek en vergelyk.

This study addresses public sector intermediaries and their role in facilitating innovation in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) in South Korea. The primary aim is to understand and address the informational and relational barriers that SMEs face during the innovation process and how these are resolved through interaction. Although the government has been implementing SME support policies for several decades, the Korean National Innovation System (KNIS) has been characterised with six words: ‘strong large firms, weak small firms’. Korean Government policies for R&D have not been effective in enhancing the economic performance and innovative capabilities of SMEs and the ‘low level of competitiveness’ of SMEs obstructs knowledge interaction between firms. Policies directed at SMEs mainly focus on direct support and do not reflect the interactive nature of the innovation process. This mismatch between policy and desired outcomes has led this study to go beyond examining the informational and relational constraints. It analyses the factors influencing successful (or less successful) innovation and asks whether public intermediaries have provided an effective mechanism in resolving innovation barriers (i.e. system failures). Yet, there has been a lack of research into public intermediaries and SMEs within the National Innovation Systems (NIS) framework. The NIS approach is a loosely configured framework and the intermediary literature is fragmented and has rarely been integrated with the NIS literature. Research has tended to focus on specific functions of private intermediaries and far less on the public intermediaries, which have been playing a crucial role in facilitating innovation in Korean industry for several decades. The central focus of this study is on the knowledge interaction process between public intermediaries and SMEs occurring at multiple levels of interaction in the Korean NIS. This study therefore attempts to integrate the NIS concept and the intermediary approach to provide a robust way to explore the knowledge interaction process at meso- and micro-levels. Four functions of the intermediary are constructed to explore how they might influence SME innovation: knowledge facilitation, learning facilitation, knowledge enabling and managing interfaces. Through in-depth analysis of five case studies encompassing firms in mechatronics and IT, this study explicates the knowledge interaction process and influential factors of successful innovation. The analysis addresses a series of issues that the generic NIS concept cannot fully explain: (1) knowledge interaction at meso- and microlevels; (2) multiplicity of relationships and their evolving nature; (3) the role of public intermediaries in a specific cultural context; and (4) the heterogeneity of SMEs with their pre-existing resources and routines. Sociological perspectives especially provide insights for investigating not only the dynamic nature of interactions but also micro-level factors that determine successful interactions and innovation that are largely neglected in both NIS and intermediary studies; e.g. productive combination of competing rationalities, social learning, and the importance of reflexive individuals. Focusing on a modulated NIS concept for public sector intermediaries and SMEs in a Korean context, the study opens the ‘black box’ of knowledge interaction and learning that resolves the barriers, shapes the successful innovation environment and hence strengthens the innovation system. The findings have implications for policy, including the need to establish new policy measures aimed not simply at achieving a set goal but rather at facilitating the interaction process with a long-term view. The study recommends that public intermediaries need to focus on monitoring activities that integrate and support the knowledge interaction process by facilitating ‘associativeness’ among actors. Furthermore, the heterogeneity of the local contexts and SMEs in the innovation process need to be taken into account in designing the programmes, moving away from one-size-fits-all type services.

p. 1 - 103 / Submitted by Santiago Fabio (fabio.ssantiago@hotmail.com) on 2013-01-31T18:53:36Z No. of bitstreams: 1 777.pdf: 1479747 bytes, checksum: af3ffbf524d2df172aa0a4405cc5e5ef (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Fatima Cleômenis Botelho Maria (botelho@ufba.br) on 2013-02-04T15:42:56Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 777.pdf: 1479747 bytes, checksum: af3ffbf524d2df172aa0a4405cc5e5ef (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2013-02-04T15:42:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 777.pdf: 1479747 bytes, checksum: af3ffbf524d2df172aa0a4405cc5e5ef (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007 / Esta pesquisa buscou conhecer a percepção dos alunos do último ano do curso de graduação em administração da EAUFBA sobre questões relacionadas ao empreendedorismo e a inovação. De forma mais específica, buscou-se investigar, mediante o resultado da construção de mapas cognitivos e de respostas a questões quantitativas, o grau de associação existente entre os conceitos de empreendedorismo e de inovação, as percepções sobre os desafios da instituição e do seu corpo docente no processo de incentivo ao empreendedorismo e de integração da EAUFBA ao Sistema Nacional de Inovação. Além disso, mapeou-se o grau de adesão da amostra a iniciativas empreendedoras, bem como o grau de inovatividade dos projetos, tipos de inovação existentes e motivos para o não engajamento nas iniciativas empreendedoras. A análise dos dados coletados apontou que o grau de associação entre os conceitos de empreendedorismo e inovação ainda é baixo, que o corpo docente é visto como o grande responsável pelo incentivo ao engajamento em iniciativas empreendedoras e que a percepção da importância das redes de integração entre diversas instituições para o desenvolvimento do empreendedorismo e da inovação ainda ocorre de maneira incipiente. O percentual da amostra envolvido em iniciativas empreendedoras, 17,1% chega a surpreender positivamente, considerando que a pesquisa captou também a ausência de um viés de estímulo ao empreendedorismo na estratégia educacional da instituição. Os resultados obtidos por esta pesquisa reforçam a necessidade de uma discussão mais ampla sobre o posicionamento da EAUFBA como uma das principais instituições responsáveis na região nordeste pelo desenvolvimento do moderno profissional em administração. / Salvador

This thesis was motivated by the importance of technological capability for economic growth process in developing countries. The main objective of this study is to analyze the creation of technological capability in the Turkish manufacturing industry / and to set out opportunities and impediments for technological development by ascribing special emphasis to MNCs in this process within the framework of national innovation system. The technology policy advice relying on attracting foreign firms is also questioned. In order to shed light on how technological capability is accumulated in the Turkish manufacturing industry / and to understand the role that MNCs play in this process, the thesis investigates static and dynamic spillover effects of MNCs in the Turkish manufacturing industry. The study also focuses on the factors that determine innovativeness of, and the technology transfer by the firms in Turkey, and the role of MNCs in this context. The probable effects of firm and technology specific characteristics such as size and technology level are taken into consideration in the analyses. Our results suggest that foreign firms are superior to domestic firms in many respects. There are no horizontal or vertical spillovers from MNCs in Turkey for the 1983-2000 period. We found lagged positive horizontal spillovers, though. However, these spillovers are far beyond to register a net dynamic benefit for the whole Turkish manufacturing industry to be felt in the current period. This lagged spillover is found for large firms / and one can mention net dynamic positive spillovers for the large firms. We also found positive spillovers from labor transfer from MNCs to domestic firms for the 1995 and 2000 period. We conclude that technological capability is limited in domestic firms / and it can be improved by on-the-job training and general education policies as well as increasing domestic R&amp / D. The technology policies relying attracting more FDI should be reviewed given the insights provided by the analysis conducted in this thesis.

O trabalho submete a teste a hipótese de que o direito concorrencial brasileiro não possui hoje grau de sofisticação institucional adequado para lidar com arranjos cooperativos interempresariais utilizados por empresas a fim de desenvolver, implantar e difundir inovações tecnológicas. O critério da sofisticação institucional empregado para tanto consiste na verificação da implementação deliberada e estratégica de mudanças institucionais pelo Estado para prover vantagens institucionais comparativas para as empresas nele baseadas, em termos de maior segurança jurídica e menores custos de compliance. A fim de identificar os fatores relevantes para tal análise são empregados conceitos teóricos das linhas de pesquisa conhecidas como Nova Economia Institucional (NEI) e Variedades de Capitalismo (VdC), bem como uma análise empírica comparativa da política concorrencial aplicável a tais arranjos cooperativos nos Estados Unidos e no Brasil. / This work tests the hypothesis that the Brazilian competition law has not today an appropriate degree of institutional sophistication to deal with interfirm cooperative arrangements employed by companies to develop, deploy and disseminate technological innovations. The criterion of institutional sophistication hereby employed consists on the verification of the deliberate and strategic implementation of institutional changes by the State in order to provide comparative institutional advantages for the companies based therein, in terms of more legal certainty and lower compliance costs. In order to identify the relevant factors for such analysis, theoretical concepts from New Institutional Economics (NIE) and Varieties of Capitalism (VoC) literatures are employed, as well as a comparative empirical analysis of the competition policy applicable to such cooperative arrangements in the United States and Brazil.

Submitted by Silvana Teresinha Dornelles Studzinski (sstudzinski) on 2015-11-04T15:58:18Z No. of bitstreams: 1 André Stringhi Flores.pdf: 11737510 bytes, checksum: 7dad217ade96d08836d705f02f760de6 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-11-04T15:58:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 André Stringhi Flores.pdf: 11737510 bytes, checksum: 7dad217ade96d08836d705f02f760de6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-07-07 / CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / O presente trabalho tem o fito precípuo de analisar o cenário econômico da nanotecnologia no Brasil à luz de experiências internacionais selecionadas sob o prisma de Sistemas Nacionais de Inovação. A proposta de contribuição deste trabalho está centrada na ampliação da escassa literatura sobre a temática, especialmente sob o viés analítico dos Sistemas Nacionais de Inovação. O trabalho em um primeiro momento analisa os principais conceitos, características e as funcionalidades da nanotecnologia. A partir da contextualização e caracterização, o estudo avança, dedicando-se a ingressar na teoria econômica com vistas a buscar os fundamentos analíticos que sustentam a análise da nanotecnologia sob a ótica dos Sistemas Nacionais de Inovação. Sob o viés de SNI, analisam-se, posteriormente, experiências internacionais de países selecionados: EUA, Alemanha, Rússia e China, bem como da União Europeia, intentando a compreensão da criação de iniciativas nacionais focadas no desenvolvimento da nanotecnologia. À luz dessas experiências, por fim, busca-se compreender o cenário econômico da nanotecnologia no Brasil através de uma análise das dimensões científica, tecnológica-industrial e político-regulatória ao longo dos últimos anos (2000 a 2013), uma vez que essas dimensões possibilitam o aporte ao entendimento de fatores que auxiliam a análise econômica, considerando a linha neoschumpteriana. Em linhas gerais, é possível depreender-se das experiências internacionais que todos os países estudados possuem Iniciativas Nacionais já consolidadas, com mais de 10 anos de experiências, e se caracterizam: a) pelo estímulo de atividades de inovação com interação entre Universidades e Empresas; b) pela realização de investimentos públicos em projetos para desenvolvimento da nanotecnologia em empresas; c) pelo destaque mundial na produção científica e em depósitos de patentes; e d) pela criação de marcos regulatórios e de definições, conceitos e limites de aplicações em nanopartículas na indústria. No que tange aos resultados encontrados no estudo, referente ao Brasil, verifica-se um incipiente ambiente de promoção e de incentivo à nanotecnologia no Brasil, especialmente em termos de estrutura de atividades de pesquisa aplicada, de fomento de atividades de Interação Universidade-Empresa e de inexistência de marcos regulatórios. Contudo, é possível a visualização, partir da análise do cenário das referidas dimensões, de bons resultados nos planos de produção científica (18º colocação no ranking mundial, conforme dados de 2011) e de depósitos de patentes (13º colocação no ranking mundial, conforme dados de 2011) se comparado a países líderes, seus respectivos investimentos e suas dimensões referentes à criação de iniciativas nacionais em nanotecnologias já há anos consolidadas. Em termos de contribuição teórica, destaca-se a apresentação da discussão a respeito da nova onda nos SNI com a chegada da nanotecnologia. Conclui-se também pela grande lacuna, em uma perspectiva de agenda de pesquisa, lançando-se o desafio de novos estudos sobre a temática. / This work has the aim of analyzing the economic scenario of nanotechnology in Brazil in the light of international selected experiences under the prism of National Innovation Systems. The contribution proposed by this research is focused on expanding the scarce literature on this subject, especially in the analytical bias of National Innovation Systems. The work at a first moment analyzes the main concepts, features and functionality of nanotechnology. From the contextualization and the characterization, the study advances, dedicating up to enter in the economic theory in order to get the analytical foundations underpinning the analysis of nanotechnology from the perspective of National Innovation Systems. Under the bias of SNI, we will analyze, posteriorly, international experiences of selected countries: USA, Germany, Russia and China, as well as European Union, attempting to understand the creation of national initiatives focused on the development of nanotechnology. In light of these experiences, finally, we seek to understand the economic scenario of nanotechnology in Brazil through an analysis of the scientific, technological-industrial, political and regulatory dimensions over the past years (2000-2013), since these dimensions will enable the contribution to the understanding of factors that support the economic analysis, considering the neoschumpterian line. Generally speaking, it is possible to infer from international experiences that all the countries studied have national initiatives already consolidated, with over 10 years of experience, and are characterized by: a) the encouragement of innovation activities with interaction between universities and companies; b) carrying out public investment in projects for the development of nanotechnology in companies; c) the world highlight in the scientific literature and patent applications; d) the creation of regulatory frameworks and definitions, concepts and application limits on nanoparticles in the industry. With respect to the results found in the study, referring to Brazil, there is an incipient environment of promotion and encouragement of nanotechnology in Brazil, especially in terms of structure to applied research activities, promotion of university-industry interaction activities and the absence of regulatory frameworks. However, it is possible to visualize, from the analysis of these dimensions scenario, good results in terms of scientific production (18th place in the world ranking, according to data of 2011) and patent deposits (13th place in the world ranking, according to data of 2011) compared to leading countries, their investments and its dimensions referent to the creation of national initiatives in nanotechnology which was years ago consolidated. In terms of theoretical contribution, is highlighted the discussion of the new wave in SNI with the arrival of nanotechnology. It also concluded that there is a large gap, in a perspective of research agenda, launching the challenge of new studies on the subject.

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