Introduction to 'Technological infrastructure and international competitiveness' by Christopher Freeman
介绍克里斯托弗·弗里曼20年前首次提出“国家创新系统”概念的草稿，说明该概念在创新研究中的地位，并指出当前创新系统分析仍可从弗里曼关于贸易政策与国家创新系统关联的思想中学习。
This is an introduction to the publication for the first time of a 20-year-old draft paper by Christopher Freeman, the first paper that uses the concept ‘national system of innovation’. The draft paper illustrates the role played by Christopher Freeman in building innovation research. This brief introduction gives the status of innovation system discourse and research, and relates it to what Freeman wrote more than 20 years ago. It challenges the idea that ‘innovation system is not a theoretical concept’, and shows that current innovation system analysis can still learn from Freeman when it comes to linking together trade policy and national innovation systems.