On the resilience of innovation systems

IF 3.4 3区管理学 Q1 ECONOMICS

Industry and Innovation Pub Date : 2023-10-17 DOI:10.1080/13662716.2023.2269110

Adriaan van der Loos, Koen Frenken, Marko Hekkert, Simona Negro

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Abstract

Mission-oriented innovation policies address urgent societal challenges, often through rapid technological upscaling. However, upscaling may endanger the resilience of an innovation system by limiting variety. A resilient innovation system is ambitious in scaling up while intelligently fostering variety. To assess resilience, a country’s technology portfolio needs to be contextualised against global trends. We introduce contextualised variety to uncover threats, windows of opportunity and poorly allocated resources and evaluate the maturing Dutch offshore renewable energy innovation system based on 236 R&D projects 12,000 industry contracts and 34 interviews. Our results indicate that the Netherlands invests in variety for its installation sector, bolstering resilience, while it neglects its foundations sector, indicating a threat. The Netherlands further supports a non-existent traditional wind turbine sector, suggesting poor resource allocation. However, it backs disruptive wind turbines, a window of opportunity contingent on upon concerted innovation policy. This framework demonstrates how to evaluate the resilience of any innovation system.

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论创新系统的弹性

以使命为导向的创新政策通常通过快速的技术升级来解决紧迫的社会挑战。然而，升级可能会限制创新系统的多样性，从而危及创新系统的弹性。一个有弹性的创新体系在扩大规模的同时，要明智地培育多样性。为了评估复原力，一个国家的技术组合需要与全球趋势相结合。我们通过236个研发项目、12,000个行业合同和34个访谈，介绍了不同的环境来发现威胁、机会之窗和资源分配不当，并评估了成熟的荷兰海上可再生能源创新体系。我们的研究结果表明，荷兰对其安装部门的多样性进行了投资，增强了弹性，而忽视了其基础部门，这表明存在威胁。荷兰进一步支持一个不存在的传统风力涡轮机行业，这表明资源配置不佳。然而，它支持破坏性风力涡轮机，这是一个机会之窗，取决于协调一致的创新政策。这个框架展示了如何评估任何创新系统的弹性。

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期刊介绍： Industry and Innovation is an international refereed journal presenting high-quality original scholarship of the dynamics of industries and innovation. Interdisciplinary in nature, Industry and Innovation is informed by, and contributes in turn to, advancing the theoretical frontier within economics, organization theory, and economic geography. Theoretical issues encompass: •What are the institutional underpinnings for different organizational forms? •How are different industrial structures and institutions related to innovation patterns and economic performance?