Working Paper #2015-023
Effective research and innovation (R&I) policy in the EU-28: A causal and configurational analysis of political governance determinants
Effective research and innovation (R&I) policy depends on the extent to
which ideas, interests and institutional mechanisms for policy making
work together rather than work against each other. In a political
governance model for effective R&I policy in the EU-28, the separate
influence of inter-ministerial coordination, regulatory impact
assessment extended to sustainability checks, parliamentary committee
surveillance, media attention and societal consultation is investigated.
Interaction effects are investigated in a set-theoretic analysis for the
econometrically best-fit model. Our results show that the societal
consultation, policy-informed opposition and sector-informed informal
policy coordination are necessary but not sufficient to bring about
effectiveness to R&I policy. Their influence on effectiveness of R&I
policy depends on the combination with either media attention or
Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA) extended to sustainability checks. We
reached these results with the help of ordered logit estimations and
fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analyses using 2011-2013 (SGI) data of
Bertelsmann Stiftung and Lexis Nexis Academic.
- Keywords
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- Proximate political governance
- Research and innovation policy
- EU-28
- Ordered logit estimation
- Fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis
- JEL codes
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- O10
- P52
- Z18
- C02
Cite this as
APA 7th ed.Turkeli, S., & Kemp, R. (2015). Effective research and innovation (R&I) policy in the EU-28: A causal and configurational analysis of political governance determinants (UNU-MERIT Working Paper No. 2015-023). UNU-MERIT. https://unu-merit.nl/publications/working-papers/abstract/?id=5749