Author

• Ghahreman Abdoli

Assistant Professor, Facualty of Economics, University of Tehran

Abstract

Over the final two decades of the 20^th century, a number of formerly industrializing economics achieved levels of innovative capacity commensurate with or greater than those of some economies that were historically more innovative. In this paper, I discuss the conditions and factors affecting innovative capacity. The framework of National Innovative capacity (NIC) can explain the difference in innovation and economic growth among countries. NIC is the ability of a country to produce and  commercialize a flow of innovative technology over the long term. NIC depends on the strength of a nation^’s common innovation infrastructure, the environment for innovation in its leading industrial clusters, and strength of linkage between these two areas. I use this framework to find the productivity of Iran NIC. The results of the estimated equations imply that there is a weak linkage between innovation and NIC.
 

Keywords

• National Innovation system
• Innovation
• Catch-up
• Economic Growth