International Competitiveness and Technological Change

✍ Scribed by Marcela Miozzo, Vivien Walsh

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 375
• Edition: illustrated edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Technological change is central in explaining industrial leadership, but the relationships and interactions between scientific research, industrial innovation, and competitiveness are neither clear nor straightforward. This book analyses the role of technological change in the competitiveness of firms and national economies.

✦ Table of Contents

CONTENTS......Page 6
LIST OF FIGURES......Page 8
LIST OF TABLES......Page 10
LIST OF BOXES......Page 12
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS......Page 14
PART I: INTRODUCTION......Page 16
1. Technology and Competitiveness......Page 18
2. The Science and Technology System......Page 45
PART II: ORGANIZATIONAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL CAPABILITIES AND GROWTH......Page 76
3. Organizations and Technology in Proprietary and Managerial Capitalism......Page 78
4. Organizations and Technology during the Periods of ’New Competition’ and ’Systems Integration’......Page 100
5. Organizations, Technology, and Less Developed Countries: East Asia and Latin America......Page 127
PART III: SYSTEMS OF INNOVATION: A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE......Page 154
6. National Innovation Systems......Page 156
7. Sectoral Patterns of Technological Change......Page 181
PART IV: GLOBALIZATION AND INNOVATION......Page 220
8. Technology, International Investment, and Trade......Page 222
9. Networks and Alliances......Page 250
10. Globalization of Trade, Production, and Technology......Page 282
APPENDICES......Page 306
REFERENCES......Page 312
A......Page 340
B......Page 341
C......Page 343
D......Page 347
E......Page 348
F......Page 350
G......Page 351
H......Page 353
I......Page 354
J......Page 356
K......Page 357
L......Page 358
M......Page 359
N......Page 362
O......Page 363
P......Page 364
R......Page 367
S......Page 368
T......Page 371
U......Page 373
V......Page 374
Z......Page 375