Identifying mechanisms influencing the emergence and success of innovation within national economies: A realist approach

Document Type

Journal Article

Publication Title

Policy Sciences

Publisher

Springer

Place of Publication

United States

School

School of Business and Law

RAS ID

20674

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Jackson, P., Runde, J., Dobson, P., & Richter, N. (2016). Identifying mechanisms influencing the emergence and success of innovation within national economies: A realist approach. Policy Science, 49(3), 233-256. Available here

Abstract

This paper uses data from recent OECD (OECD Science, technology and industry scoreboard. OECD Publishing, Paris, 2013b) and Cornell University et al. (The global innovation index 2014. World Intellectual Property Organization, Fontainebleau, 2014) national innovation reports to explain Australia’s poor innovation performance. We adopt a realist approach and apply the technique of retroduction to identify potential causes. While our account is only preliminary, we contend that this technique provides the resources to uncover plausible causes for further, more detailed, causal analysis. We conclude that the retroductive method is one that can be applied to aggregated statistics more generally and could be used by analysts and policy makers in any jurisdiction.

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10.1007/s11077-015-9237-6

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