Science – industry links in CEE AND CIS: Conventional policy wisdoms facing reality
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Radosevic, Slavo
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This paper analyzes factors behind a widespread policy failure to support science – industry linkages in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). We explain this failure as being largely due to uncritical application of conventional policy wisdoms into the context of ‘catching up’ and ‘laggard’ economies. The argument is based on evidence of knowledge intensive enterprises in CEE and CIS countries and on analysis of innovation policies of these two regions. Our conclusion is that support to science – industry linkages for the CEE/CIS should be balanced with support to strengthening ‘actors’ (existing large and small firms; universities and public research organisations) and support to other linkages in national innovation systems, especially knowledge links between domestic and foreign firms
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2008-09
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