Does Decentralized Governance Lead to Less Scientific Output? A Fuzzy Set Analysis of Fiscal Decentralization and Determinants of National Innovation Capacity
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https://doi.org/10.4335/15.3.647-668(2017)Keywords:
national innovation systems, QCA, innovation policy, fiscal decentralizationAbstract
his paper argues that national innovation infrastructure is closely linked with the scientific output and that some other factors, such as decentralized governance, can in certain combinations with innovation infrastructure lead to a higher scientific output. It demonstrates this by using a set-theoretic fsQCA method to analyze the data on national innovation capacities, fiscal decentralization, and science policy output. Results confirm that while a national innovation infrastructure is a necessary condition for successful scientific output, decentralization in certain, but not all cases leads to successful scientific output and that the paths to a successful scientific output in different countries are diverse.
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Fiss, P. C. (2011) Building better causal theories: a fuzzy set approach to typologies in organization research, Academy of Management Journal, 54(2), pp. 393–420.
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Likar, B., Cankar, F. & Zupan, B. (2015) Educational model for promoting creativity and innovation in primary schools, Systems research and behavioral science, 32(2), pp. 205-213.
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McCann, P. & Ortega-Argilés, R. (2013) Modern regional innovation policy, Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 9(3), pp. 125-138.
Metcalfe, S. (1995) The Economic Foundations of Technology Policy: Equilibrium and Evolutionary Perspectives. In Stoneman P. (ed.), Handbook of the Economics of Innovation and Technological Change (Oxford (UK)/Cambridge (US): Blackwell Publishers).
OECD (1997) Diffusing Technology to Industry: Government Policies and Programmes (Paris: OECD Publishing).
OECD (2011) Regions and Innovation Policy (Paris: OECD Publishing).
OECD (2013) Science, Technology and Industry Scoreboard, https://doi.org/http://dy.doi.org/10.1787/sti_scoreboard-2013-en.
Pustovrh, A. & Jaklič, M. (2014) National Innovation Policies in the EU: A Fuzzy-Set Analysis, Economic and Business Review, 16(1), pp. 39-62.
Ragin, C. C. (1987) The comparative method (Oakland: University of California Press).
Ragin, C. C. (2000) Fuzzy-set social science (Chicago: University of Chicago Press).
Ragin, C. C., Kriss, A. D., & Davey, S. (2006) Fuzzy-Set/Qualitative Comparative Analysis 2.0. (Tuscon, Arizona: University of Arizona, Department of Sociology).
Ragin, C. C., & Rihoux, B. (2009) Configurational Comparative Methods (Thousand Oaks: Sage).
Rihoux, B., & Grimm, H. (2006) Innovative Comparative Methods for Policy Analysis, available at: http://www.google.si/books?id=pTM6yOvT-6UC&dq=quantitative+methods+innovation+policy&lr=&source=gbs_navlinks_s (December 14, 2016).
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Schneider, A. (2003) Decentralization: Conceptualization and measurement, Studies in Comparative International Development, 38(3), pp. 32-56.
Schneider, C. Q., & Wagemann, C. (2012) Set-theoretic Methods for the Social Sciences (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
Strump, K. S. (2002) Does Government Decentralization Increase Policy Innovation?, Journal of Public Economic Theory, 4(2), pp. 207-241.
Treisman, D. (2002) Defining and Measuring Decentralization : A Global Perspective. Unpublished Manuscript, (March 2002), available at: http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/polisci/faculty/treisman/Papers/defin.pdf (November 20, 2016).
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