The initial prerequisites for the formation of regional innovation policies and mechanisms (strategies and instru-ments) for its coordination at the national, regional and supranational levels, mainly in the EU countries, are systematized and justified in the article. It is shown that at all three levels of coordination, mostly joint tools for coordination of industrial and innovation policies are used. The national and regional levels of coordination of industrial and innovation policies in France and South Korea, that have successfully reformed the coordination mechanisms of these policies, has been thoroughly explored. Mechanisms for coordination of the supranational regional industrial and innovation policies of the EU have also been systematically investigated.
Rethinking Path Dependency and Regional Innovation - Policy Induced 'Government Dependency': The Case of Daedeok, South Korea
