RT Journal Article
T1 Understanding policy learning in regional innovation policies: lessons from the Galician case
A1 González López, Manuel
K1 Innovation
K1 Policy
K1 Regions
K1 Learning
K1 Galicia
AB The objective of this paper is to analyze how learning happens at regional innovation policies in a multilevel governance framework. We explore the case of Galicia, a region with competencies on innovation policies also affected by two other government levels. Our methodology consisted of in-depth interviews with the persons who bore the major responsibility for innovation policies during last decades. Our findings suggest that the interactions with other government levels are a key channel for policy learning. Sometimes learning is associated with simple imitation of the national level, which might lead to questionable results because neither the previous policy-making trajectory nor the region particularities are taken into account. Other times learning is needed because a new political rationality is imposed. This has been the case of the Smart Specialization strategy in Galicia, which nevertheless was key to enhance social and political participation, a channel for policy learning not used before.
PB Taylor & Francis
SN 1351-1610
YR 2019
FD 2019
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10347/38768
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10347/38768
LA eng
NO González-López, M. (2018). Understanding policy learning in regional innovation policies: lessons from the Galician case. Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research, 32(1), 104–118. https://doi.org/10.1080/13511610.2018.1519780
NO This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research on 14 Sep 2018, available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/13511610.2018.1519780
NO This research has received the support of the project EURIPER (EU Regional and Innovation Policies and Peripheral Regions) funded by the Jean Monnet Projects Action of the Erasmus+ Programme (Project Reference: 587410-EPP-1-2017-1-ES-EPPJMO-PROJECT).
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