The evolving relations between government agencies of innovation policymaking in emerging economies: A policy network approach and its application to the Chinese case
The evolving relations between government agencies of innovation policymaking in emerging economies: A policy network approach and its application to the Chinese case
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DOI：
10.1016/j.respol.2018.01.003
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发表时间：
2018-04
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影响因子：
7.2
通讯作者：
Yutao Sun;C. Cao
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作者：
Yutao Sun;C. Cao
有关创新政策的文献几乎没有揭示作为政策制定者的政府机构之间的关系是如何演变的。本文采用政策网络的方法，考察了新兴经济体政府间机构关系演变的三种机制--政策议程、权力集中和异质依赖，并将它们应用于中国创新政策制定的演变分析。操作上，本文提出了一种基于社会网络分析的方法来定量研究中国的创新政策网络，该网络由中央政府各部委在1980年至2011年期间制定的463份创新政策文件组成。研究结果表明，正式的创新政策网络不仅通过政策议程的干预得以维持，而且由于政策网络的权力集中和异质依赖的性质，它具有自组织的特性。中国的创新政策网络演变中存在这样的混合机制，这与工业化国家的研究结果不同，在工业化国家，自组织发挥着核心作用。这一工作推进了我们对创新政策网络演化的理论理解，并对新兴经济体的创新政策制定具有一定的启示意义。
Literature on innovation policy reveals little of how relations between government agencies as policymakers evolve. Taking the policy network approach, this paper investigates three mechanisms underlining the evolution of inter-government agency relations in emerging economies – policy agenda, power concentration and heterogeneity dependence, and applies them to the analysis of the evolution of innovation policymaking in China. Operationally, the paper proposes a social network analysis (SNA)-based method to quantitatively study China’s innovation policy network, which consists of 463 innovation policy documents formulated by its central government ministries between 1980 and 2011. The findings show that the formal policy network for innovation has been not only sustained through the intervention of policy agendas but also self-organized because of policy network’s nature of power concentration and heterogeneity dependence. The presence of such mixed mechanisms in China’s innovation policy network’s evolution differs from the findings from industrialized countries where self-organization plays a central role. This work advances our theoretical understanding of the evolution of innovation policy network and has implications for innovation policymaking in emerging economies.