Improving Distributed Intelligence in Complex Innovation Systems

Kuhlmann, Stefan, Boekholt, Patries, Georghiou, Luke, Guy, Ken, Heraud, Jean-Alain, Laredo, Philippe, Lemola, Tarmo, Loveridge, Denis, Luukkonen, Terttu, Moniz, António, Polt, Wolfgang, Rip, Arie, Sanz-Menendez, Luis and Smits, Ruud (1999): Improving Distributed Intelligence in Complex Innovation Systems. Published in: ASTPP Thematic Network, TSER Final Report (1999): pp. 1-87.

Abstract

Science and technology (S&T) are considered to be a central source, or at least a basic medium, of societal and industrial innovation, while innovation is conceived to basically feed the regeneration of our welfare. The suppliers of S&T in Europe as well as the users of their „products“, are confronted with a number of challenges today. We want to stress here that it was not the primary goal of our Advanced Science & Technology Policy Planning (ASTPP) Network to come up with proposals how the strategic character of European S&T policies could be strengthened. The ASTPP-network instead focuses on one aspect: the provision of strategic intelligence necessary to identify and develop strategic choices. The underlying hypothesis is that the existing body of experiences with technology foresight, technology assessment and S/T policy evaluation provides a basis for the development of an advanced S&T policy „planning“ approach by trying to enhance, interlink or even integrate the growing, but still dispersed experience in these three areas of intelligence. By „intelligent“ we mean that the inter-relatedness of S&T, industrial efforts, societal needs and political interventions becomes more transparent so that interactive collaboration between them will be facilitated.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: innovation; Technology Policy; technology foresight; assessment; evaluation
• Subjects: C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C5 - Econometric Modeling > C53 - Forecasting and Other Model Applications; O - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth > O3 - Technological Change; Research and Development > O38 - Government Policy; O - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth > O3 - Technological Change; Research and Development > O32 - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D; D - Microeconomics > D0 - General > D00 - General; E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E6 - Macroeconomic Policy Formation, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, Macroeconomic Policy, and General Outlook > E61 - Policy Objectives; Policy Designs and Consistency; Policy Coordination
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