Author : Wim Naudé
Publisher : Springer
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 21,1 MB
Release : 2010-12-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0230295150
Leading international scholars provide a timely reconsideration of how and why entrepreneurship matters for economic development, particularly in emerging and developing economies. The book critically dissects the evolving relationship between entrepreneurs and the state.
Author : Jean-Eric Aubert
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 49,1 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Agricultural Knowledge and Information Systems
ISBN :
Facilitating and responding to the emergence of grass-root needs at the local level is also essential. Support to entrepreneurs and local communities should be primarily provided in matching grant forms to facilitate the mobilization of local resources and ownership. It is of primary importance to pay the greatest attention to country specificities, not only in terms of development level, size, and specialization, but also in terms of administrative and cultural traditions. At the global level, major issues need also to be considered and dealt with by appropriate incentives and regulations: the role of foreign direct investment in developing countries' technological development, conditions of technologies' patenting and licensing, the North-South research asymmetry, and brain drain trends.
Author : Alexandra Tsvetkova
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 15,56 MB
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Developing countries
ISBN : 1785369660
This edited volume offers a multidisciplinary perspective on innovation challenges and innovative practices in the context of developing and transition countries. The contributions mostly embrace a national innovation system approach in an attempt to understand innovation processes and their implications at both macro and micro levels.
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 23,74 MB
Release : 2010-08-12
Category :
ISBN : 926408892X
Innovation drives long-term economic growth. This book examines the role of innovation in developing countries, with a focus on Africa.
Author : World Bank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 30,39 MB
Release : 2010-05-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821383019
This volume offers a detailed conceptual framework for understanding and learning about technology innovation policies and programs, and their implementation in the context of different countries.
Author : Xavier Cirera
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,95 MB
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1464811849
Since Schumpeter, economists have argued that vast productivity gains can be achieved by investing in innovation and technological catch-up. Yet, as this volume documents, developing country firms and governments invest little to realize this potential, which dwarfs international aid flows. Using new data and original analytics, the authors uncover the key to this innovation paradox in the lack of complementary physical and human capital factors, particularly firm managerial capabilities, that are needed to reap the returns to innovation investments. Hence, countries need to rebalance policy away from R and D-centered initiatives †“ which are likely to fail in the absence of sophisticated private sector partners †“ toward building firm capabilities, and embrace an expanded concept of the National Innovation System that incorporates a broader range of market and systemic failures. The authors offer guidance on how to navigate the resulting innovation policy dilemma: as the need to redress these additional failures increases with distance from the frontier, government capabilities to formulate and implement the policy mix become weaker. This book is the first volume of the World Bank Productivity Project, which seeks to bring frontier thinking on the measurement and determinants of productivity to global policy makers.
Author : Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 16,26 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
This study defines the aims and tools of a new innovation policy and identifies examples of good policy practice recently implemented in OECD countries.
Author : Sunil Mani
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 48,20 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Development scholars from the Netherlands, Germany, Australia, India, and Britain highlight examples of developing countries creating their own technology rather than, or often in conjunction with obtaining it from elsewhere, as is the usual practice. The nine studies were presented at an conference in Maastricht; no date is noted. Annotation 2004
Author : World Intellectual Property Organization
Publisher : WIPO
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 18,99 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Law
ISBN : 9280523082
This study has emerged from an ongoing program of trilateral cooperation between WHO, WTO and WIPO. It responds to an increasing demand, particularly in developing countries, for strengthened capacity for informed policy-making in areas of intersection between health, trade and IP, focusing on access to and innovation of medicines and other medical technologies.
Author : Nobuaki Matsunaga
Publisher : Springer
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 21,78 MB
Release : 2019-02-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9811335257
The main focus of this book is innovation for developing countries: what is the innovation for, what are the current conditions of the innovation, and how to effectively innovate in developing economies. It contains the latest insights and analyses of innovation based on intensive interviews as well as primary and secondary data of manufacturing firms in developing countries, Vietnam and Laos in particular. Innovation requires something new. Integration of deep understanding of innovation and econometric analyses are a “new combination” in this book, which contrasts with other, similar books in the field. This new approach may benefit policy makers as well as scholars and firms in poor countries. The main points of the book are summarized as follows: First, for most poor countries “learning innovation” is considered the key to economic growth rather than “leading-edge innovation”, which is a more popular theme in similar books on innovation. Second, an overwhelming majority of innovations currently used in poor countries are developed in advanced countries, so technology transfer and learning from the latter are a fundamental source of innovation in the former. Third, a surprisingly high rate of firms (around 50%) reported that they introduced new or significantly improved products or processes in poor countries, and this high innovation rate is a great benefit to be enhanced by government policies. Fourth, the common factors driving innovation of manufacturing firms in Vietnam and Laos are (1) human capital, (2) social capital, and (3) innovation in the past. Fifth, the impact of innovation on firm performance is found to be mixed in these countries. Sixth, so far almost all studies on innovation have focused on product or process innovation, but additional light is shed here on organizational innovation.
