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• Title:
  The Discursive Construction of Innovation Policy in Peripheralising Estonia
• Creator:
  Schulz, Sebastian
• Contributor:
  Public Economics and Policy, School of Economics and Business Administration, University of Tartu, Juhan Liivi 4–214, 50409 Tartu, Estonia;
  sebastian.schulz@ut.ee
• Description:
  An innovation-driven agenda in regional development policy has emerged in the European Union against the backdrop of peripheralisation, especially in Central and Eastern Europe. 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 semi-structured 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.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.;
  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
• Date:
  2018.04.03;
  2018.02.06
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Lodz Univeristy Press
• Relation:
  European Spatial Research and Policy;2;
  24
• Subject:
  discourse;
  innovation policy;
  Estonia;
  peripheralisation
• Identifier:
  1231-1952;
  http://hdl.handle.net/11089/24307 ;
  1896-1525;
  10.1515/esrp-2017-0010
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
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• Type:
  other