Mapping Innovation Diplomacy in Denmark and Sweden

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-32
Author(s):  
Didzis Kļaviņš
Keyword(s):  
Systems Approach ◽  
Innovation Systems ◽  
Foreign Affairs ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Technological Forecasting ◽  
Innovation Diplomacy ◽  
Innovation Approach ◽  
The Empirical Analysis

Summary The aim of this article is to identify and map innovation diplomacy actions in Denmark and Sweden using the ‘functions of innovation systems’ approach. Based on Hekkert et al.’s seven key system functions (Marko P. Hekkert, Roald A. A. Suurs, Simona O. Negro, Stefan Kuhlmann and Ruud E. H. M. Smits, ‘Functions of Innovation Systems: A New Approach for Analysing Technological Change’, Technological Forecasting & Social Change 74 (4) (2007), 413-432), the article assess the role of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) in meeting governments’ innovation targets. The empirical analysis, including twelve semi-structured interviews with seventeen career diplomats, reveals the key initiatives that countries are taking in furthering their homeland’s innovation aims or ambitions. The study also asks whether the ‘diplomacy for innovation’ approach of both Scandinavian MFAs are consistent with the ‘whole-of-government’ and ‘whole-of-society’ approaches.

scholarly journals Mental health innovation diplomacy: An under-recognised soft power

2019 ◽  
Vol 53 (5) ◽  
pp. 474-475 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harris A Eyre ◽  
Andrew Robb ◽  
Ryan Abbott ◽  
Malcolm Hopwood
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Soft Power ◽  
Health Innovation ◽  
Innovation Diplomacy

scholarly journals Innovation Diplomacy: A New Concept for Ancient Practices?

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 383-397
Author(s):  
Pascal Griset
Keyword(s):  
Historical Approach ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
Science Diplomacy ◽  
Hybrid Concept ◽  
Different Dimensions ◽  
Innovation Diplomacy

Summary This essay questions the concept of innovation diplomacy to determine its true perimeter and its different dimensions. To this end, it quickly addresses the strong points of an argument that appeared in the second half of the 2000s and which establishes in a very general way a filiation, or even a succession, between science diplomacy and innovation diplomacy. A historical approach shows that what is called innovation diplomacy encompasses ancient practices at the crossroads of science, technology, economy and culture. It finds that innovation diplomacy can be understood only as a hybrid concept reflecting organisations and strategies rooted in older practices articulated to the challenges of the present time.

scholarly journals Revisiting Indonesia’s Economic Diplomacy in the Age of Disruption: Towards Digital Economy and Innovation Diplomacy

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Defbry Margiansyah
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
New Economy ◽  
Digital Economy ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Economic Diplomacy ◽  
Essential Variable ◽  
Development Agenda ◽  
Digital Disruption ◽  
Innovation Diplomacy

With the rise of digital technologies and innovation disrupting the economy, the global phenomenon challenged the current concept and strategies of “conventional” economic diplomacy that have increasingly gained importance in contemporary foreign policy, including Indonesia. In the meantime, the digital economy had been significantly growing as a potential driver of growth and an inclusive economy which becomes central in the Indonesian development agenda. A new or innovation-based economy such as the digital economy did not only become one of the priorities in national policies but also emerge to be an essential variable to the foreign policy of Indonesia amid diplomatic deficit. This research examines Indonesia’s economic diplomacy in optimizing the potential of digital and new economic activities in facing the challenges of digital disruption. By employing integrative diplomacy concept, this research argues that Indonesia’s government should pursue intermestic, comprehensive and integrative strategies in its economic diplomacy by integrating new economy through the construction of “innovation diplomacy.” This research finds that the existing economic diplomacy is strongly directed to “conventional” commercial diplomacy, while it gives insufficient space for a new economy to develop significantly, due to the absence of concept supporting the operation of innovation-focused economic diplomacy. Consequently, it is suggested that Jakarta urgently has to reconceptualize its economic diplomacy more strategically in order to achieve “diplomatic sophistication,” by way of constructing “innovation diplomacy” as a subset of economic diplomacy.

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