CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2024
| Author | Dao, Chi Le Linh |
|---|---|
| Title | Factors Influencing Policy Transfer to Authoritarian State: Innovation Voucher from Montenegro and Lesson-Learnt for Vietnam's National Innovation System |
| Summary | In the wake of Vietnam’s macroeconomic ambition for the upcoming decade, the concept of “Innovation Vouchers” (IV) has been promoted by global institutions as a strategic tool to bridge the gap between public research bodies and the private sector. Despite the absence of successful policy adoption to date, this thesis leverages the policy transfer framework to assess the compatibility of IV with Vietnam’s context. It delves into the unique dynamics that shape policy transfer, informed by insights from Montenegro’s experiences and an evaluation of Vietnam’s National Innovation System (NIS) and its authoritarian regime. The research identifies IV as an apt instrument for Vietanam NIS which is steered by market-driven principles and macro-policy orchestration, supplemented by numerous programs to ensure the long-term effect of IV transfer. The study reveals that IV transfer is intricately linked to Vietnam’s specific milieu, including its one-state party model, historical legacy, Confucian value and economic profile, all of which exert significant directional forces on the policy transfer process. Vietnam’s autonomous political ideology, distinct from the paradigms of global institutions could potentially impede the internal advocacy for innovation coordination, which currently faces challenges in indentify focal point for innovation activities. The findings offer empirical contributions to the pool of policy transfer literature, advocating for the application of the framework which extend beynd its descriptive function and anticipate the trajectory of policy transfer through the synthesis with domain-specific policy theories. |
| Supervisor | Catwright, Andrew; Alcaraz, Pablo Pareja |
| Department | Public Policy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2024/dao_chi.pdf |
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