This volume explores the governance and management of science, technology, and innovation (STI) in relation to innovation policy and governance systems, highlighting its goal, challenges, and opportunities. Divided into two sections, it addresses the role of governments in promoting innovation in Latin-American contexts as well as barriers and opportunities for STI governance in the region. The chapters tackle the role of institutions, innovation funding, technological trajectories, regional innovation policies, innovation ecosystems, universities, knowledge appropriation, and markets. Researchers and scholars will find an opportunity to grasp a better understanding of innovation policies in emerging economies. This interdisciplinary work presents original research on science, technology and innovation policy and governance studies in an understudied region.
1. Introduction: Science, Technology and Innovation Policy and Governance for Social Inclusion and Sustainable Development in Latin America.- PART 1. INNOVATION POLICY.- 2. Toward a typology of public innovation. Eccentric, discrete, flat and transformative innovation.- 3. Mission-Oriented Innovation Policies: An Approach to Two Colombian Cases.- 4. Innovation policies for an inclusive and sustainable development: Insights from Central America.- 5. Towards a Regional Policy: Transformative Innovation in Colombia.- 6. Transformative Innovation Policy in emerging economies: what does it entail?.- 7. A study of innovation policies and governance structures in emerging economies under the path-dependence framework. The case of Colombia.- PART 2. STI GOVERNANCE.- 8. Innovation policy implementation on an operational basis: policy instruments, networks and governance in the case of Colombia.- 9. Regional diversification, technological trajectories and policy approaches. The case of Argentina’s satellite industry.- 10. Structure and Operation of the National Policy Councils for Science, Technology and Innovation: the cases of Chile and Spain.- 11. Adequacy of Governance of Science, Technology and Innovation in Developing Countries: The Colombian Case.- 12. Innovation Financing: A Proposal to Strengthen the Colombian Setting.
Gonzalo Ordóñez-Matamoros is the Dean of the School of Finance, Government, and International Relations at the Universidad Externado de Colombia and Assistant Professor at the School of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences at the University of Twente – The Netherlands. Luis Antonio Orozco is a Full Professor in the School of Management at the Universidad Externado de Colombia and a senior researcher at the Colombian Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation. Jaime Humberto Sierra González is Associate Professor in the Business Department in the School of Business and Economics - Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia. Javier García-Estévez is Assistant Professor in planning and territorial development at the Interdisciplinary Centre of Development Studies at the University of Los Andes, Colombia. Isabel Bortagaray is a Professor at the Institute of Sustainable Development, Innovation and Social Inclusion at the Universidad de la República, Uruguay.