This article studies the idea of a national innovation system (NIS) as a policy program. Previous research has addressed NIS as a policy idea in the context of expert discourse or as normative frames in policy discourse. The idea has not yet been studied as a policy program that explicitly coordinates public policymaking. In this article, we study the programmatic idea of NIS and its status and impacts in the coordination discourses of Finnish policymaking in 1990–2019. We find that the idea of NIS was omnipresent in Finnish policy programs of the 1990s and 2000s, but lost its programmatic status in the 2010s. We show how Finnish policymakers explicitly deployed the idea to prescribe budget allocations and new legislation. The findings suggest that the idea was given a tangible but, compared with the breadth of the idea, relatively narrow role in coordinating public policy.

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国家创新系统在芬兰作为计划性政策构想的演变

本文研究了将国家创新系统（NIS）作为政策计划的构想。先前的研究已经将NIS作为专家论述中的政策思想或政策论述中的规范框架来解决。尚未将该想法作为明确协调公共决策的政策程序进行研究。在本文中，我们研究了NIS的计划构想及其在1990-2019年芬兰决策协调话语中的地位和影响。我们发现，NIS的想法在1990年代和2000年代的芬兰政策计划中无处不在，但在2010年代失去了计划地位。我们将展示芬兰的政策制定者如何明确地将这一想法用于规定预算分配和新立法。研究结果表明，该想法得到了具体体现，但与该想法的广度相比，