Power paradoxes in national innovation systems - An exploratory study among Singapore's technocrats and technopreneurs

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dc.contributor.authorSeet, Pi-Shenen
dc.contributor.schoolBusiness Schoolen
dc.date.issued2009en
dc.descriptionCopyright © 2009 Inderscience Enterprises Limited. All rights reserved.en
dc.description.abstractThis paper explores the complex power relationship in Singapore's National Innovation System (NIS), specifically between two major groups of players, namely, the technology entrepreneurs or 'technopreneurs' and NIS bureaucrats and policy makers or 'technocrats' in the context of a NIS that is itself struggling to reconcile the contradictions of transforming itself to support a more entrepreneurial economy for the twenty-first century. The study uses Lukes' (1974) three-dimensional classification of power as a framework to study both observable and unobservable exercises of power. And using Hampden-Turner's (1990, 2000) dilemma methodology as an interpretive lens, the research finds that unlike the consensual power relationship that is assumed, the power relationship is largely tilted towards the technocrats and away from the technopreneurs with three major patterns of power paradoxes as follows: (1) the Meritocratic effect, (2) the Multinational Corporation – Government-Linked Corporation (MNC-GLC) effect and (3) the Process-engineering effect.en
dc.identifier.citationInternational Journal of Foresight and Innovation Policy, 2009; 5(4):260-276en
dc.identifier.doi10.1504/IJFIP.2009.026403en
dc.identifier.issn1740-2816en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2440/51154
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherInderscience Publishersen
dc.subjectnational innovation systems ; Singapore ; bureaucracy ; technology entrepreneurs ; technopreneurship ; entrepreneurship; power relationsen
dc.titlePower paradoxes in national innovation systems - An exploratory study among Singapore's technocrats and technopreneursen
dc.typeJournal articleen

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