Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.1080/1331677X.2017.1311225
Extracting the innovation policies for Iran based on the approximation of policy implications for comparative economic doctrines
Sepehr Ghazinoory
; Department of Information Technology Management, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
Meysam Narimani
; Department of Information Technology Management, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
Faezeh Khamoushi
; Department of Information Technology Management, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
Hamid Kazemi
; Department of Economics of Science, National Research Institute for Science Policy, Tehran, IR
Abstract
Due to many differences in presumptions and theoretical foundations
within neoclassical and evolutionary economics, policy-makers are
always confronted with the dilemma of selecting one of these two
central models for technology and innovation policy. In light of
widely institutionalised ineffectiveness in the field of market and
systematic coordination – in Iran as well many other countries – the
present investigation presumes that reliance on any of the above
doctrines alone is ineffective. An intermediate concept of policy
rationales to achieve a comparative structure of policy implications
is proposed. Policy rationales (in innovation and technological policy)
for neoclassical and evolutionary economics were derived based
on a thematic analysis. A spectrum of policy implications of both
doctrines was designed and completed in the form of a questionnaire
for, together with theoretical foundations and policy rationales by
specialists of the field of innovative and technological policy in Iran.
Given the institutional conditions and structural frameworks which
actually exist, and in spite of wide dissimilarities within the theoretical
foundations of neoclassical and evolutionary economics, Clustering of
respondents and subsequent test trials show that policy implications
of the economics doctrines in the field of innovative and technological
policy in Iran are complementary and convergent.
Keywords
Evolutionary economics; neoclassical economics; policy rationales; policy implications; innovative and technological policies; thematic analysis
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Publication date:
1.12.2017.
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