As above, so below: narrative salience and side effects of national innovation systems

摘要: ABSTRACTThis article furthers previous attempts at integrating narratology in policy analysis. Embracing an open-ended definition of narrative, it stresses the importance maintaining distinct narrative levels and, more generally, taking into account pragmatic dimension narration as activity, including often-implicit role and focalization analyst. Developing a conceptual analogy between storytelling exercise power, argues for critical use practical imagination ‘cold’ situations ‘narrative salience’, characterized by absence controversy or uncertainty, uneven distribution power scenarization. These propositions ‘revisited’ approach to narratives, equidistant from positivist post-positivist dichotomy, are tested on case salience’ where particular storyline, national innovation systems, is so dominant that there appears be no ‘counter-story’.