Journal
INNOVATION-THE EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH
Volume 32, Issue 1, Pages 104-118Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/13511610.2018.1519780
Keywords
Innovation; policy; regions; learning; Galicia
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- project EURIPER (EU Regional and Innovation Policies and Peripheral Regions) - Jean Monnet Projects Action of the Erasmus+ Programme [587410-EPP-1-2017-1-ES-EPPJMO-PROJECT]
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The objective of this paper is to analyze how learning happens at regional innovation policies in a multilevel governance framework. We explore the case of Galicia, a region with competencies on innovation policies also affected by two other government levels. Our methodology consisted of in-depth interviews with the persons who bore the major responsibility for innovation policies during last decades. Our findings suggest that the interactions with other government levels are a key channel for policy learning. Sometimes learning is associated with simple imitation of the national level, which might lead to questionable results because neither the previous policy-making trajectory nor the region particularities are taken into account. Other times learning is needed because a new political rationality is imposed. This has been the case of the Smart Specialization strategy in Galicia, which nevertheless was key to enhance social and political participation, a channel for policy learning not used before.
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