THE DISCURSIVE CONSTRUCTION OF INNOVATION
POLICY IN PERIPHERALISING ESTONIA
THE DISCURSIVE CONSTRUCTION OF INNOVATION
POLICY IN PERIPHERALISING ESTONIA
Author(s): Sebastian SchultzSubject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Geography, Regional studies, Business Economy / Management, Sociology, ICT Information and Communications Technologies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: discourse; innovation policy; Estonia; peripheralisation
Summary/Abstract: An innovation-driven agenda in regional development policy has emerged in theEuropean Union against the backdrop of peripheralisation, especially in Central and EasternEurope. Using a discursive analytical framework, the article investigates the ways in which peripheralisation is manifested through language, practices and power-rationalities in Estonian innovation policy discourse. The analysis is footed on key strategic policy documents and semistructured expert interviews. Findings suggest that Estonian innovation policy’s main narrative of the ‘knowledge-based economy’ accepts growing disparities on sub-national level in order to overcome peripherality at European scale and narrows the range of policy solutions perceived as suitable.
Journal: European Spatial Research and Policy
- Issue Year: 24/2017
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 77-91
- Page Count: 15
- Language: English