| ON NORDIC INNOVATION POLICIES |
A reader's guide to GoodNIP
The Nordic Industrial Fund SME Forum has
funded the trans-Nordic research project on good practices in Nordic innovation
policies (GoodNIP). The Nordic Industrial Fund – Center for Innovation and
Commercial Development is an institution under the Nordic Council of Ministers.
Its aim is to strengthen the Nordic business sector through the creation of a
Nordic knowledge market, and the organisation does this by initiating and
financing projects and activities that create synergy between actors in the
Nordic innovation system.
The main objective of Good Practices
in Nordic Innovation Policies has been to develop a survey and an analysis
of Nordic innovation policy instruments that directly or indirectly are
targeting small and medium sized enterprises. The project is to provide Nordic
policy makers with information to be used in the development of new or adjusted
policy instruments on a national or Nordic level.
The GoodNIP deliveries consist of three
reports. You can go to the publication page to
download them for free.
 Report 1:
Summary and policy recommendations
Report
one contains a summary of the PUBLIN exercise, presentations of modern
innovation theory and innovation policy developments in the Nordic countries, as
well as various policy recommendations.
The
main chapter of Report 2 gives a thorough presentation a comparison of
contemporary innovation policies and policy instruments in the Nordic countries,
historically and contemporary. The chapter ends up with several policy
recommendations.
A separate chapter discusses how policy
development actually takes place in ministries and agencies, and introduces the
concept of rationalities – i.e. common mental maps or frameworks of
understanding that underpins policy development. This chapter also examine
policy learning practices in the Nordic countries and gives some concrete advice
on how to improve such learning processes.
The report then goes on to a
presentation of relevant innovation policy statistics and indicators. This is
more than a listing of numbers and tables, however. The chapter uses these
figures in order to gain a better understanding of the current status of
innovation and R&D in the Nordic countries, and tries to analyse to what extent
there is a connection between this status and current innovation policies.
The final chapter of Report 2 contains
more general theoretical reflections on innovation theory and innovation policy
development. It discusses the interaction between innovation research and
innovation policy as well as various rationales for innovation policy
development.
In an appendix the reader will find
national rapports on the historical background for innovation policies in the
Nordic countries.
Report
3 is essentially a reference book for innovation policies in the Nordic
countries, and includes:
- Presentations of the innovation
policy governance structures of the Nordic countries
- Summaries of relevant policy
documents
- “Datasheets” presenting selected
innovation policy measures
- An extended list of policy measures
that goes beyond the ones included in the datasheet section
Go to the Publications page to download the
reports!
You may also
search the database of Nordic innovation policy
measures.
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