Public Policies for Productive Innovation in Knowledge Society

FELDMAN PATRICIO, FINQUELIEVICH SUSANA; GIROLIMO ULISES

Montevideo

Conferencia; 9th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance; 2016

AGESIC, UNU

ABSTRACTThis paper refers the advances of an ongoing project: ?LocalDevelopment and Productive Innovation in three cities in theProvince of Buenos Aires?. Its main goal is to examine therelationships between public policies in dissimilar-sized cities andthe processes of socio-technical innovation based on Informationand Communication Technologies (ICTs). It spotlights theshaping factors on the rise and consolidation of innovationprocesses, the articulation between innovation agents, the role ofthe State, and the resulting explicit and implicit public policies.The main factors considered are the population number andcharacteristics of each city, the participation of innovation agents(Universities active in R+D, cutting-edge enterprises, innovativelocal governments), and the building productive innovationnetworks among them. The main final output of the project will bea set of recommendations addressed to regional and localgovernments about public policies for cities in KnowledgeSociety.