Learning, Capability Building and Innovation for Development

by G. Dutrénit (Editor)

1.Introduction; Gabriela Dutrénit, Keun Lee, Richard Nelson, Luc Soete and Alexandre O. Vera-Cruz 2. The Generation of Domestic Technological Measuring the Impact of the Contributions of Jorge Katz; Gabriela Dutrénit 3. The Latin American Structuralist School and the Innovation Systems 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 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 Macroeconomic Uncertainty and Firms' Investment in R&D and in Machinery in Argentina; Valeria Arza 11. Macro, Meso and Micro Coordination and Technological 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 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

312 pages, Paperback

First published August 23, 2013