نشریه سیاست نامه علم و فناوری
سال هشتم شماره 2 (پیاپی 23، تابستان 1397)

The concept of the national system of innovation is developed at the end of 1980s and had grabbed considerable attention in the next decade, either from policy-makers or academicians. By the turn of the new century, it witnessed changes from different aspects, particularly by its applicability in the context of the developing countries. This paper shows how the diversity of views in 1990s is now transforming to a more convergent research program around the original views of Freeman as a leading figure in this area.

The concept of sectoral innovation systems is rooted in studies that have been published about three decades ago. But, this concept was introduced seriously around two decades ago and after that, it has been increasingly employed in a diverse range of industries within developed and developing countries. However, it has not conducted and systematic review of sectoral innovation systems literature. So, current paper has conducted a systematic review of sectoral innovation systems body of knowledge through studying 76 selected papers in this field. To this end, this paper presented some descriptive statistics about selected paper beside review of definitions, concepts, characteristics, and components of sectoral innovation systems. In addition, this paper classified selected paper based on the level of development of studied countries. Furthermore, this paper proposes a thematic classification of previous studies that includes concepts such as technological catch-up, windows of opportunity, capital goods, and complex product systems, and the transition to market leadership in emerging economies.

The main purpose of this Article is to describe the methodology of complex social systems with focused on analysis of innovation systems. At this paper, we analyze innovation system as a complex system and then, try to describe the best methodology for analyzing this systems. Agent based modeling is the main approach that define in this article that combine some concept such as game theory, complex systems, emergent property, computational social science, multy-agent systems and monte Carlo to provide a convergence logic for understanding complex systems. Our result shows that understanding and analysis of a innovation system need to application of methodologies that fit with this systems and the best theoretical approach for analyzing this systems is a agent based modeling and uses of simulating dynamics of knowledge exchange on innovation networks.

The emergence of new technologies means not only substitution or changes in existing technologies, but also emergence of new social settings and structures. Hence technological transition management is not simply supporting new technology development, but proper governance of change from a socio-technical system to a new socio-technical system. Some main frameworks and approaches such as innovation systems approach and multi-layer perspective explain these technological changes and transformations. Also some conceptual developments of theses main frameworks tend to follow a more prescriptive orientation. This paper compares these frameworks, the path of formation and theoretical foundations contributed to development of them. Growing convergence between innovation systems approach and multi-layer perspective framework based on socio-technical system thinking and their branches in recent researches is seen and shows that integration of insights of these approaches may provide new and more comprehensive rationale for policy making in the field of technological transition.

This paper reviews extant research on technological catch-up of East Asian firms, which has recently emerged as an important issue. We review 76 articles on technological catch-up in the East Asian context published in 17 journals over 23 years (1995–2017), covering the academic disciplines of strategic management, international business, entrepreneurship, technology and innovation management, and economics. Based on a systematic analysis of this literature, we develop an overarching framework to this topic. We then identify the major gaps in the literature and suggest areas for future research on technological catch-up of Asian firms.