The evolving relations between government agencies of innovation policymaking in emerging economies: A policy network approach and its application to the Chinese case

Research Policy

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2018, Pages 592-605

  Sun, Yutao ^a   Cao, Cong ^b  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM NINGBO CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

China; Emerging economies; Innovation policy; Policy documents; Policy network; Social network analysis

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING; INNOVATION; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

CHINA; EMERGING ECONOMIES; INNOVATION POLICIES; POLICY DOCUMENTS; POLICY NETWORKS;

PUBLIC POLICY;

EID: 85040220809     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2018.01.003     Document Type: Article

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