Culture and national S&T performance

A framework for analysing socio‐institutional factors in RTD policy making

Bibliographic Data

ID12530831
AuthorsSteven Ney (0000-0001-7570-2419, corresponding author)
Year1999
Volume12
Issue3
Pages353-375
Publication date1999-09-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueInnovation The European Journal of Social Science Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1351-1610 • E-ISSN: 1469-8412
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13511610.1999.9968609
OpenAlexW2041731178
LanguageEN
References cited18

Since the 1970s, policy makers and researchers have attempted to understand what factors influence national S&T performance. Whereas researchers predominantly aimed at explaining disparate economic development paths by understanding the role of innovation and technological advance in the evolution of economic systems, policy makers hoped to discover those mechanism that would enhance national S&T performance. The work of Mary Douglas provides a framework for systematically comparing organizational and institutional cultures. Although Mary Douglas originally devised the approach to explain her African fieldwork data, successive social scientists, most notably Aaron Wildavsky, Michael Thompson, and Steve Rayner, have adapted the model to suit the needs of policy analysis

National Policy · Policy making · Political science · Regional science · Sociology · Work (physics · Corruption and Economic Development · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies · Engineering · Global and Cross-Cultural Management · Public Administration

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