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Learning, Capability Building and Innovation for Development

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Editors:
  1. Gabriela Dutrénit

    1. Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico

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  2. Keun Lee

    1. Seoul National University, Republic of Korea

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  3. Richard Nelson

    1. Columbia University, USA
      Columbia Earth Institute, USA

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  4. Alexandre O. Vera-Cruz

    1. Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico

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  5. Luc Soete

    1. Maastricht University, The Netherlands

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Part of the book series: EADI Global Development Series (EADI)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction

    • Gabriela Dutrénit, Keun Lee, Richard Nelson, Luc Soete, Alexandre O. Vera-Cruz
    Pages 1-9

  3. The Generation of Domestic Technological Capabilities: Measuring the Impact of the Contributions of Jorge Katz

    • Gabriela Dutrénit
    Pages 10-36

  4. The Latin American Structuralist School and the Innovation Systems Perspective: Jorge Katz, Learning and Micro and Macro Connections

    • José E. Cassiolato, Helena Lastres, Flávio Peixoto
    Pages 37-57

  5. The Significance of Jorge Katz’s Work for the Understanding of Learning and Technological Capability Building in Developing Countries

    • Alexandre O. Vera-Cruz, Arturo Torres-Vargas
    Pages 58-77

  6. “Old” and “New” Approaches to Innovation Policy: A Systems Evolutionary Perspective

    • Morris Teubal
    Pages 78-103

  7. Industrial Productivity in Developing Nations

    • Howard Pack
    Pages 104-120

  8. Productivity and Firm Heterogeneity in Chile

    • Gustavo Crespi
    Pages 121-139

  9. Developing Competing Capabilities in the Argentinean Industry (1958–2008)

    • Bernardo Kosacoff
    Pages 140-159

  10. Micro-Macro Interactions in Technological Learning and Growth

    • Mario Cimoli, Gabriel Porcile
    Pages 160-175

  11. The Social Dimension of Behaviour: Macroeconomic Uncertainty and Firms’ Investment in R&D and in Machinery in Argentina

    • Valeria Arza
    Pages 176-201

  12. Macro, Meso and Micro Coordination and Technological Progress: Catch Up Experiences of Samsung and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation

    • Rajah Rasiah
    Pages 202-221

  13. Knowledge Regimes and Technological Catch Up

    • Keun Lee
    Pages 222-241

  14. Catching Up in the 21st Century: Globalization, Knowledge and Capabilities in Latin America, a Case for Natural Resource Based Activities

    • Michiko Iizuka, Luc Soete
    Pages 242-262

  15. Past Innovation Trajectories in Latin America and Current Innovation Trajectories in the Asian Driver Economies

    • Raphael Kaplinsky
    Pages 263-281

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 282-296
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico

    Gabriela Dutrénit, Alexandre O. Vera-Cruz

  • Seoul National University, Republic of Korea

    Keun Lee

  • Columbia University, USA

    Richard Nelson

  • Columbia Earth Institute, USA

    Richard Nelson

  • Maastricht University, The Netherlands

    Luc Soete

About the editors

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

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