Bolivian Innovation Policies: Building an Inclusive Innovation System

Year 2015, Volume: 4 Issue: 1, 63 - 82, 01.06.2015

Carlos Gonzalo Acevedo Peña Walter Mauricio Hernán Céspedes Quiroga José Eduardo Zambrana Montán

Abstract

This study explores the policy paths the Bolivian government has followed in the last three decades to organize science, technology, and innovation. We present strategies proposed by the government to make its National Innovation System more dynamic and socially inclusive. We analyse the process and strategies followed under the light of the Triple Helix government-industry-university model of innovation.

Keywords

Innovation system, Triple Helix, inclusive innovation, developing countries, Bolivia.

Bolivian Innovation Policies: Building an Inclusive Innovation System

Abstract

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