The Evaluation of the National Innovation System
The Finnish National Innovation System has been evaluated by international experts. Its starting point was the Government´s Communication on Finland´s National Innovation Strategy to the Parliament, which included the policy guidelines with respect to the development and renewal of Finnish innovation policy.
The aim of the evaluation was to provide insights into how the National Innovation System, its structure and organizations can respond to the changes in the global environment and to the challenges these changes pose.
The international evaluation experts have identified modes of operation, processes and tools, that the Finnish innovation policy can be designed and implemented with. The grass-root level evaluation provides means of generating better innovations and facilitating their adoption and diffusion.
A specific challenge in the promotion of innovative activities is the inclusion of the creativity and expertise of individuals and communities. The new demand- and user-driven innovation policy emphasizes the needs of customers in developing products and services, the systematic use of economic incentives and the participation of end-users in the innovation process.
The future challenges – such as the globalizing economy and its first global recession, the structural change of Finnish industries, aging of population, and climate change – can be addressed by facilitating interaction between different ministries and other actors, and by introducing a broad-based and efficient public innovation policy.
The results of the evaluation were published on the 28th of October 2009
The evaluation team consisted of 6 foreign and 12 national innovation policy experts, supported by a team of researchers. The evaluation has produced a Policy Report, a more extensive Full Report along with several background studies. The results of the evaluation are synthesized in the press release and in the material presented in the publication seminar.
Reports
Speech of Minister of Economic Affairs
Discussion papers
Nikulainen, T., & Tahvanainen, A-J. (2009). Towards Demand Based Innovation Policy? The Introduction of SHOKs as Innovation Policy Instrument.
ETLA DP 1182 (pdf) (230 KB)
Takalo, T. (2009). Rationales and Instruments for Public Innovation Policies.
ETLA DP 1185 (pdf) (95.8 KB)
Tahvanainen, A-J. (2009). Finnish University Technology Transfer in a Whirl of Changes: A Brief Summary.
ETLA DP 1188 (pdf) (253.6 KB)
Tanayama, T., & Ylä-Anttila, P. (2009). Tax Incentives as Innovation Policy Tool (in Finnish with an abstract in English).
ETLA DP 1189 (pdf) (455.6 KB)
Deschryvere, M. (2009). A Comparative Survey of Structural Characteristics of Finnish University Departments.
ETLA DP 1195 (pdf) (207.2 KB)
Kotiranta, A., Nikulainen, T., Tahvanainen A-J., Deschryvere, M., & Pajarinen, M. (2009). Evaluating National Innovation Systems: Key Insights from the Finnish INNOEVAL Survey.
ETLA DP 1196 (pdf) (798.6 KB)
Autio, E. (2009). The Finnish Paradox: The Curious Absence of High- Growth Entrepreneurship in Finland.
ETLA DP 1197 (pdf) (308.8 KB)
