Title: Modelling the National System of Innovation (NSI)

Authors: Rias J. Van Wyk

Addresses: Technoscan® Centre, P.O. Box 390516, Edina, MN 55439, USA

Abstract: The international community of scholars faces an unfinished task – how to derive maximal benefit from technology-based innovation. This is a difficult process to optimise, and we are doing a mediocre job. When we contrast the Ali Baba|s cave of untapped technological potential, to the long list of unmet needs – economic, social and environmental – we realise that we do not yet have the |Open sesame|. We do not have an adequate model of the National System of Innovation (NSI), in spite of a promising start 50 years ago. A new field of knowledge, Strategic Technology Analysis (STA), offers a way forward.

Keywords: NSI; national systems of innovation; technology planning; STA; strategic technology analysis; functionality grid; functional performance metrics; technological knowledge; formal structure; S&T policy; technology management; technology-based innovation.

DOI: 10.1504/IJTIP.2010.035779

International Journal of Technology Intelligence and Planning, 2010 Vol.6 No.3, pp.268 - 287

Published online: 03 Oct 2010 *

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