(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-09)
Fagerberg, Jan; Verspagen, Bart; Mowery, David C.
This paper analyses the co-evolution of science, technology and innovation policy and
industrial structure in a small, resource-based economy (Norway). The contributions of the
paper are threefold. First, it develops an evolutionary and historically oriented approach to the
study of the development of science, technology and innovation policy based that may have
wide applicability. Second, if focuses on a particular type of innovation, innovation in
resource-based activities, that differs in many respects from the more commonly studied
“high-tech” case and which arguably be of relevance for may present day developing
countries. Third, the paper advances our understanding of the roles played by institutions and
politics in innovation. Previous work on national systems of innovation has often devoted
little attention to these matters, possibly because much of it examines “snapshots” of various
innovation systems at a specific point in time and lacks historical depth.