Learning, Capability Building and Innovation for Development
Published on 1. January 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
XIV, 296 pages
978-1-349-45527-0 (ISBN)
Description
Today, a large number of scholars studying development understand this process as involving learning and capability building. Capability building is an active, not a passive, process. It requires a purposeful effort from the learner's side, with support and commitment on allocation of time and resources toward learning activities. This process implies the possibility of failure as well as success, as we also learn from failures. A global cast of academics and policy makers examines economic development as a process of learning and technological accumulation, showing how economic development is a process involving creative destruction. While markets and market competition play major roles in structuring the development process, non-market institutions and government policies matter.
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Series
Edition
1st ed. 2013
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
XIV, 296 p.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
363 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-349-45527-0 (9781349455270)
DOI
10.1057/9781137306937
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G. Dutrénit | K. Lee | R. Nelson
Learning, Capability Building and Innovation for Development
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08/2013
Palgrave Macmillan
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Persons
Morris Teubal, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Gustavo Crespi, Inter-American Development Bank, USA
José Eduardo Cassiolato, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Helena Maria Martins Lastres, Brazilian Development Bank
Michiko Iizuka, UNU-MERIT, the Netherlands
Flávio Peixoto, Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics
Rajah Rasiah, University of Malaya, Malaysia
Keun Lee, Seoul National University, South Korea
Raphael Kaplinsky, the Open University, UK
Howard Pack, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Alexandre O. Vera-Cruz, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico
Gabriela Dutrenit, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico
Valeria Arza, Argentinean National Research Council
Bernardo Kosacoff, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Mario Cimoli, University of Venice, Italy
Gabriel Porcile, University of Parana, Brazil
Content
1.Introduction; Gabriela Dutrénit, Keun Lee, Richard Nelson, Luc Soete and Alexandre O. Vera-Cruz 2. The Generation of Domestic Technological Capabilities: Measuring the Impact of the Contributions of Jorge Katz; Gabriela Dutrénit 3. The Latin American Structuralist School and the Innovation Systems Perspective: Jorge Katz, Learning and Micro and Macro Connections; José E. Cassiolato, Helena Lastres and Flávio Peixoto 4. The Significance of Jorge Katz's Work for the Understanding of Learning and Technological Capability Building in Developing Countries; Alexandre O. Vera-Cruz and Arturo Torres Vargas 5. 'Old and New' Approaches to Innovation Policy: a Systems Evolutionary (S/E) Perspective; Morris Teubal 6. Industrial Productivity in Developing Nations; Howard Pack 7. Productivity and Firm Heterogeneity in Chile; Gustavo Crespi 8. Developing Competing Capabilities in the Argentinean Industry (1958-2008); Bernardo Kosacoff 9. Micro-Macro Interactions in Technological Learning and Growth; Mario Cimoli & Gabriel Porcile 10. The Social Dimension of Behaviour: Macroeconomic Uncertainty and Firms' Investment in R&D and in Machinery in Argentina; Valeria Arza 11. Macro, Meso and Micro Coordination and Technological Progress: Catch Up Experiences of Samsung and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation; Rajah Rasiah 12. Knowledge Regimes and Technological Catch-up; Keun Lee 13. Catching Up in the 21st Century: Globalization, Knowledge and Capabilities in Latin America, a Case for Natural Resource Based Activities; Michiko Iizuka and Luc Soete 14. Past Innovation trajectories in Latin America and current innovation trajectories in China; Raphael Kaplinsky