slub eng National innovative capacity An established concept revisited 2017-03-31 2017-06-28 2017 urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa2-160885 published born digital aut Marcus Max Haberstroh 1984 male rev Prof. Dr. Andreas Pinkwart male rev Jun.-Prof. Dr. Vivek K. Velamuri male dgg HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management, Leipzig National innovative capacity, a central driver of countries’ long-term economic growth, has been one of the focal points in innovation research for roughly thirty years. Initially proposed as an index to measure technologic invention over time, this concept has become the widely accepted standard for measuring the performance of (sub) national and sectoral innovation systems toward being an analytic tool attributed to innovation systems theory. Country comparison, knowledge flows, and R&D forecasting are in the center of analysis feeding the concrete practical use of innovation policy optimization. In this regard, a rich body of studies has contributed indispensable knowledge about the determinants of innovative capacity. However, the multi-dimensional interconnections have not been covered in depth. Thus, to gain a holistic understanding of the “DNA” behind national innovative capacity a new “comparative” view of these determinants is necessary. To this end, this dissertation proposes revisiting the focus, unit and parameters of analysis that predominate within current national innovative capacity studies and sets forth three interlinked academic articles that focus on different layers of innovative capacity in countries. Besides furthering academic discourse on the determinants of innovational outcome, this conceptual revision leads to a new approach on national innovation capacity research. Its intention is to make policy makers aware of certain pathways leading to the same outcome. This knowledge will enable them to pursue a dynamic approach of supporting the innovative processes in countries by defining appropriate innovation strategies that consider both the countries’ specific preconditions and the sub-systems perspective. National innovation systems, regional innovation systems, local innovation systems, innovation in European cities, innovative capacity, innovation policy nationale Innovationskraft, nationale Innovationssysteme, Innovationspolitik, regionale Innovationssysteme 330 QR 000 1. Introduction 2. The purpose of revisiting the NIC concept for innovation policy 3. The scientific contribution of this doctoral thesis 3.1 Article 1: Increasing the national innovative capacity: Identifying the pathways to success using a comparative method 3.2 Article 2: National Health Innovation Systems: Clustering the OECD countries by innovative output in healthcare using a multi-indicator approach 3.3 Article 3: Increasing the innovative capacity of European cities: Making use of proven concepts from the national level 4. References 4519974-7 prv Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden, Dresden male 2017-08-17T12:37:20+0200 492765731 Daniela Neumann daniela.neumann@hhl.de kein PDF/A doctoral_thesis SLUB-17-173