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- Title
Mission-oriented innovation policies and bureaucracies in East Asia.
- Authors
Karo, Erkki
- Abstract
This article tackles two "how" questions of mission-oriented innovation policies in East Asia: How do these economies legitimize their mission-oriented innovation policies in the public discourse? and How do they create dynamic capabilities for implementing these policies? The article shows that although on the level of policy choices and design, the global–Western discourse has also entered the East Asian mission-oriented innovation policy rhetoric, this has not stopped the policymakers in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan from relying on old "developmentalist" logics for legitimizing these policies. This also influences actual policy implementation styles: as opposed to Western models of peripheral Schumpeterian agencies offering dynamic capabilities, the East Asian innovation bureaucracies seem to rely on more visible and "politicized" organizations for such capabilities. We also discuss the strengths and weaknesses of this model.
- Subjects
EAST Asia; TECHNOLOGICAL innovation policy; BUREAUCRACY; POLICY sciences; LEGITIMACY of governments; ECONOMIC policy
- Publication
Industrial & Corporate Change, 2018, Vol 27, Issue 5, p867
- ISSN
0960-6491
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/icc/dty031