Learning, Capability Building and Innovation for Development
β Scribed by Gabriela DutrΓ©nit, Keun Lee, Richard Nelson, Alexandre O. Vera-Cruz, Luc Soete (eds.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 311
- Series
- EADI Global Development
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction....Pages 1-9
The Generation of Domestic Technological Capabilities: Measuring the Impact of the Contributions of Jorge Katz....Pages 10-36
The Latin American Structuralist School and the Innovation Systems Perspective: Jorge Katz, Learning and Micro and Macro Connections....Pages 37-57
The Significance of Jorge Katzβs Work for the Understanding of Learning and Technological Capability Building in Developing Countries....Pages 58-77
βOldβ and βNewβ Approaches to Innovation Policy: A Systems Evolutionary Perspective....Pages 78-103
Industrial Productivity in Developing Nations....Pages 104-120
Productivity and Firm Heterogeneity in Chile....Pages 121-139
Developing Competing Capabilities in the Argentinean Industry (1958β2008)....Pages 140-159
Micro-Macro Interactions in Technological Learning and Growth....Pages 160-175
The Social Dimension of Behaviour: Macroeconomic Uncertainty and Firmsβ Investment in R&D and in Machinery in Argentina....Pages 176-201
Macro, Meso and Micro Coordination and Technological Progress: Catch Up Experiences of Samsung and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation....Pages 202-221
Knowledge Regimes and Technological Catch Up....Pages 222-241
Catching Up in the 21st Century: Globalization, Knowledge and Capabilities in Latin America, a Case for Natural Resource Based Activities....Pages 242-262
Past Innovation Trajectories in Latin America and Current Innovation Trajectories in the Asian Driver Economies....Pages 263-281
Back Matter....Pages 282-296
β¦ Subjects
Development Studies; Poverty, Aid and Development; Development Policy; Social Work; Social Structure, Social Inequality; International Organization
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