Measuring systemic failures in innovation systems in developing countries using innovation survey data: The case of Thailand

Chaminade, Cristina; Intarakumnerd, Patarapong; Sapprasert, Koson

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Measuring systemic failures in innovation systems in developing countries using innovation survey data: The case of Thailand

dc.contributor.author	Chaminade, Cristina
dc.contributor.author	Intarakumnerd, Patarapong
dc.contributor.author	Sapprasert, Koson
dc.contributor.corporatename	Lunds universitet. Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the Learning Economy
dc.contributor.corporatename	National Science and Technology Development Agency (Thailand)
dc.contributor.corporatename	Universitetet i Oslo
dc.date.accessioned	2011-06-29T15:03:00Z
dc.date.available	2011-06-29T15:03:00Z
dc.date.issued	2008-09
dc.description	Presented at the GLOBELICS 6th International Conference 2008 22-24 September, Mexico City, Mexico.	en_US
dc.description.abstract	Despite the prior efforts defining what systemic problems are, no attempt has been done hitherto –to our knowledge– to empirically identify what the systemic problems of a specific system of innovation are. This paper aims at contributing to filling this gap by analysing the systemic problems of the Thai innovation system. For doing so, we use data from the Thai innovation survey in 2003 that seemingly allows a sufficient time lag for our analysis to identify systemic problems after a major transition initiated in 2001from a traditional research policy (pre-Thaksin dministration) to a more explicit innovation system policy (Thaksin era). The Thai innovation survey has a particular advantage as it contains several detailed questions related to the issue (such as on institutional supports and innovation environment not available in the traditional European community Innovation Surveys or CISs) that allow researchers to identify different systemic problems. We employ a hierarchical factor analysis in measuring institutional, infrastructure, capability and network problems and link them to the prior change in innovation policy in order to understand how and why such problems may have come about and existed. Paper organization: Section 2 - the implications of the adoption of the IS approach for innovation policy and introduce the different systemic problems discussed in the literature. In Section 3- a general account of the Thai innovation survey, describe the dataset and the questions selected to capture each systemic factor. Section 4 - some descriptive evidence, present our hierarchical (two-stage) factor analysis and discuss it in the light of the recent transformation of the Thai innovation system and innovation policy. The paper is rounded up with some conclusions and suggestions for further research.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1853/39415
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	Georgia Institute of Technology	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	GLOBELICS 06. Policy measures for reducing systemic failures
dc.subject	Innovation systems	en_US
dc.subject	Innovation policy	en_US
dc.subject	Systemic failures	en_US
dc.subject	Thailand	en_US
dc.title	Measuring systemic failures in innovation systems in developing countries using innovation survey data: The case of Thailand	en_US
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dc.type.genre	Proceedings
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local.contributor.corporatename	Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts
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