Internationalization and National System of Innovation: A Productive Network Perspective

MORERO, HERNÁN,

Lisboa, ISEG, Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa, Portugal

Otro; 6th Ph.D. School on National Systems of Innovation and Development - Globelics Academy 2009; 2009

Globelics Academy - Global Network for the Economics of Learning, Innovation and Competence Building Systems (GLOBELICS)

The general objective of the research program is to study the way in which the internationalization of production affects the national dimension of Systems of Innovation (SI).The highlighted characteristics of the economic and techno-productive global context involve a series of transformations that can be characterized as internationalization. In fact, the question whether globalization weakens or not the relevance of the national dimension of National Systems of Innovation (NSI) constitutes a recurrent issue in SI literature (Lundvall 1992; Nelson 1993; Balzat and Hanusch 2004; Lundvall 2007).Some of these authors point out that the intensification of international linkings in the generation and diffusion of innovations make national limits growingly “porous”, weakening the importance of the “national" dimension of SIs (Nelson 1993). However, others consider that, although the role and performance of the NSIs are affected by the internationalization of production, the importance of the tacit components of knowledge allows the national dimension to have an irreplaceable and determinant role in the competitiveness and innovation capabilities of the firms (Lundvall 1992).In this framework, the general research project intends to study this issue from a productive networks point of view and from the analysis of the importance of the Argentinean NSI in the processes of generation of knowledge for productive networks which present different types of internationalization.