Moving Forward in Sectoral Systems Research

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1 - Moving Forward in Sectoral Systems Research

Taxonomies, Evolution and Modelling

from Part I - Innovation Policy and Innovation Systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 August 2018

Franco Malerba

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Jorge Niosi

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Jorge Niosi: Affiliation:
Université du Québec, Montréal

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Research on sectoral systems of innovation has progressed significantly in the last decade. Sectoral systems consider sectors as systems and innovation in a sector as the result of the learning, capabilities and strategies of firms and other system components such as non-firm actors and institutions. In a sense, a sectoral system view of innovation puts knowledge, capabilities, systems and institutions at the centre of the analysis.

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Information: Innovation Systems, Policy and Management , pp. 27 - 52

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