Innovation and Catching-Up

Fagerberg, Jan; Godinho, Manuell Mira

doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199286805.003.0019

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“…Some of this research has been quite illuminating. Scholars like Fagerberg and Godinho (2004), and Bernardes and Albuquerque (2003), have shown that in recent years countries that have caught up rapidly have tended to focus their higher education systems on engineering training, and have developed indigenous research efforts. There are several quite detailed studies of particular countries that have been successful in catching up that delve into the key processes and institutions involved (see for example Kim 1997, and).…”

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14 The Roles of Research at Universities and Public Labs in Economic Catch‐Up

Mazzoleni¹,

Nelson²

2009

Industrial Policy and Development

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We draw upon historical evidence from several countries and contemporary studies of national innovation systems to argue that indigenous systems of academic training and public research have been in the past important elements of the institutional structures supporting a country's economic catch up. Recent changes in the international economic environment, and the growing scientific basis for contemporary technologies, will make those systems even more important in the future. The contributions of universities and public labs to the development of indigenous technological capabilities have taken different forms in different countries and economic sectors. However, we note that, in contrast with current emphasis on university-based embryonic inventions and fundamental research, effective research programs have predominantly occurred in the application-oriented sciences and engineering, and have been oriented towards problemsolving, and the advancement of technologies of interest to a well-defined user-community.

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Section: The Catch-up Process In Historical Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

14 The Roles of Research at Universities and Public Labs in Economic Catch‐Up

Mazzoleni¹,

Nelson²

2009

Industrial Policy and Development

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“…In this sense, it is worth mentioning the works of Abramovitz (1986), Fagerberg (1987), Dosi et al, (1988), Cohen & Levinthal (1990), Lall (1992), Lundvall (1992), Nelson (1993), Edquist (1997;2004), Freeman (1997), Sutz (1997), Archibugi & Coco (2004), Fagerberg & Godinho (2004), Navarro, Gibaja, Bilbao-Osorio & Aguado (2009) among others.…”

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Empirical study of national technological innovation capability in Africa

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Hera

Diego

2012

SAJEMS

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This paper performs an analysis of the technological innovation capability in 30 African countries. Based on the literature about national innovation capability and economy of technological change, an empirical study has been performed by using clusters' analysis technique and the technological innovation indicators published in the Global Competitiveness Report -2011 (WEF, 2010. The purpose is to explore the existence of groups of countries characterised by different technological innovation levels, deepening in their characteristics and the distance that separates them. The results show the existence of four groups of countries defined by different technological innovation capabilities in three factors, which are the Governmental and business technological effort, the Technological infrastructure and human capital (Available Base) and the Protection of intellectual property and innovation results.

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“…In conceptual terms there is a distinction to be made between catch-up and the more wide scale phenomenon of convergence: whereas catch-up, not to be confused with exact copying (Nelson 2004), refers to the experienced narrowing of the gap (to the global leaders) by an individual country, convergence relates to a situation where global overall differences would be shrinking (Fagerberg and Godinho 2004). However, it seems that this kind of global convergence is highly unlikely and, rather, at best one can describe a number of converging groups (or clubs) of countries (Castellacci and Archibugi 2008).…”

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National innovation system capabilities among leader and follower countries: widening gaps or global convergence?

Makkonen

2014

Innovation and Development

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The concept of technological catch-up, as it refers to a situation where some less developed countries have been able to catch up to the world leaders in terms of innovation, has inspired an abundant amount of scholarly attention.However, studies comprehensively focusing on factors considered important for innovation in the literature on national innovation systems (NISs) are rare. This gap is addressed here through a systematic analysis of the different dimension of NISs. Despite some positive signs, the global differences are growing i.e. the gaps between the best and the weakest performers are widening. Still, whereas on a global scale convergence is far from being the reality, the analysis was able to indicate a group of countries that have been able to catch-up to the "best in class" countries. Accordingly, there seems to be a clear association between NIS capabilities and the levels of economic development of countries.

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Innovation and Catching-Up

Cited by 135 publications

References 26 publications

14 The Roles of Research at Universities and Public Labs in Economic Catch‐Up

14 The Roles of Research at Universities and Public Labs in Economic Catch‐Up

Empirical study of national technological innovation capability in Africa

National innovation system capabilities among leader and follower countries: widening gaps or global convergence?

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