National Innovation Systems A Comparative Analysis [Paperback]

The slowdown of growth in Western industrialized nations in the last twenty years, along with the rise of Japan as a major economic and technological power (and enhanced technical sophistication of Taiwan, Korea, and other NICs) has led to what the authors believe to be a techno-nationalism. This combines a strong belief that technological capabilities of a nation's firms are a key source of their competitive process, with a belief that these capabilities are in a sense national, and can be built by national action. This book is about these national systems of technical innovation. The heart of the work contains studies of seventeen countries--from large market-oriented industrialized ones to several smaller high income ones, including a number of newly industrialized states as well. Clearly written, this work highlights institutions and mechanisms which support technical innovation, showing similarities, differences, and their sources across nations, making this work accessible to students as well as the scholars of innovation.

Contributors
1. Technical Innovation and National Systems,Richard R. Nelson and Nathan Rosenberg
Part I: Large High-Income Countries
2. The U.S. National Innovation System,David C. Mowery and Nathan Rosenberg
3. The Japanese System of Innovaton: Past, Present, and Future,Hiroyuki Odagiri and Akira Goto
4. The National System for Technical Innovation in Germany,Otto Keck
5. National Innovation Systems: Britain,William Walker
6. The French National System of Innovation,Francois Chesnais
7. The National System of Innovation: Italy,Franco Malerba
Part II: Smaller High-Income Countries
8. Comparing the Danish and Swedish Systems of Innovation,Charles Edquist and Bengt-Ake Lundvall
9. The Canadian System of Industrial Innovation,Donald G. McFetridge
10. The Australian Innovation System,ls8