WHAT IS NATIONAL INNOVATIVE SYSTEM AND IS IT NECESSARY AND POSSIBLE IN CROATIA?

The paper deals with the appearance and meaning of national innovative system (NIS)in conditions of new techno-economic paradigm, economy of knowledge and making technological changes endogenous, and considers the possibilities of building NIS in Croatia. It concludes that NIS as strategic integration of scientific, technological and industrial policyis unique mechanism of adjustment of Croatian economy to new economies, but its development is restrained by condition of “semi-modernity” of Croatian society due to which management of technological change, production, diffusion and capitalization of knowledge which are the basis of innovative system, are not recognized as originator of economic development and social welfare.