A Science and Technology Policy Model to Supporting Regional Innovation Systems Developments

The construction of models using system dynamics methods have become an important mechanism to developing new theories in social sciences. In the case of science and technology policy evaluation, this approach allows analyzing this policy within the structure where science and technology are generated. The model developed in this research seeks to demonstrate how a set of science and technology indicators can be generated to support the design of an appropriate science and technology policy that foster innovation activities at regional level. However, the analysis of science and technology policy from the perspective of the innovation systems provides an adequate conceptual framework to integrate in the same analysis key institutions in charge of generating science and technology outcomes with economic development purposes.