Public management, policy capacity, innovation and development

Bibliographic Data

ID4368531
AuthorsErkki Karo (0000-0002-7395-9082, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia), Rainer Kattel (0000-0003-0963-394X, Tallinn University of Technology, Estoni)
Year2014
Volume34
Issue1
Pages80-102
Publication date2014-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueBrazilian Journal of Political Economy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0101-3157 • E-ISSN: 1809-4538
PublisherFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/s0101-31572014000100006
OpenAlexW2085022938
SCIELO_PIDS0101-31572014000100006
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited42

In this paper we discuss the question of what factors in development policy create specific forms of policy capacity and under what circumstances developmentoriented complementarities or mismatches between the public and private sectors emerge. We argue that specific forms of policy capacity emerge from three interlinked policy choices, each fundamentally evolutionary in nature: policy choices on understanding the nature and sources of technical change and innovation; on the ways of financing economic growth, in particular technical change; and on the nature of public management to deliver and implement both previous sets of policy choices. Thus, policy capacity is not so much a continuum of abilities (from less to more), but rather a variety of modes of making policy that originate from co-evolutionary processes in capitalist development. To illustrate, we briefly reflect upon how the East Asian developmental states of the 1960s-1980s and Eastern European transition policies since the 1990s led to almost opposite institutional systems for financing, designing and managing development strategies, and how this led, through co-evolutionary processes, to different forms of policy capacity

Business · Economic growth · Economic policy · Economic system · Economics · Policy development · Private sector · Public economics · Public policy · Variety (cybernetics · Asian Industrial and Economic Development · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance

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