Absorptive capacities approaches for investigating national innovation systems in low and middle income countries

Khan, Muhammad Salar

doi:10.1016/j.ijis.2022.07.004

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“…However, innovation facilitator and innovation system characteristics of developing countries remain unexplored in the literature (Choi & Zo, 2019 ; Khan, 2022 ). Low- and medium-income countries absorb knowledge from abroad to create value for their local communities (Khan, 2022 ). Fernández et al ( 2021 ) showed differences in the innovation facilitators of developed and developing countries.…”

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“…To reduce the gap between the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, innovation facilitators in poor countries need to be stronger and more effective (Raffer & Singer, 2002). However, innovation facilitator and innovation system characteristics of developing countries remain unexplored in the literature (Choi & Zo, 2019;Khan, 2022). Low-and medium-income countries absorb knowledge from abroad to create value for their local communities (Khan, 2022).…”

Section: Sustainable Development: Other Approachesmentioning

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Innovation facilitators and sustainable development: a country comparative approach

Chaparro‐Banegas

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Mas‐Tur

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Environ Dev Sustain

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National and international organizations have introduced policies aimed at sustainable development. These policies are designed to encourage sustainable forms of business to meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda. Regional inequalities in sustainable development may be exacerbated by disparate levels of innovation. This paper analyzes the variations between clusters of countries according to the degree to which they have achieved the SDGs and their levels of innovation facilitators. Two types of analyses were employed. First, cluster analysis was used to examine changes in groups of regions with similar innovation characteristics between 2015 and 2020. Data for 122 countries were gathered from the World Bank, the SDG Index, and the Global Innovation Index. Second, multiple linear regression analysis was used to assess the power of the variables in the model to explain the level of sustainable development. The results reveal four clusters (low, medium, high, and very high innovative facilitators and sustainable development), as well as movements between those clusters from 2015 to 2020. The multiple linear regression analysis shows that the variables have explanatory power with respect to the dependent variable of sustainable development. This analysis also reveals different degrees of importance of the variables for each cluster. The findings highlight the need to consider the limitations of economic growth in terms of innovation facilitators to promote sustainable development. If policymakers recognize the limitations of economic growth and the physical ecosystem, degradation of the environment can be avoided, even when there is innovation. Global and individual social welfare can thus be ensured. This study offers valuable insights into how to achieve sustainable development through innovation facilitators by providing in-depth knowledge of the individual characteristics of innovation systems and considering the limitations of economic growth.

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Section: Sustainable Development: Other Approachesmentioning

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Innovation facilitators and sustainable development: a country comparative approach

Chaparro‐Banegas

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Mas‐Tur

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Environ Dev Sustain

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“…A firm-level concept of “absorptive capacity,” as advanced by Cohen and Levinthal [ 13 ], particularly motivates the NACS framework. As a modified version of NIS, NACS considers an LMIC an “economic learning” entity that absorbs, creates, and deploys knowledge, learning, and skills subject to the strength of its local capacities [ 14 ].…”

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Estimating a panel MSK dataset for comparative analyses of national absorptive capacity systems, economic growth, and development in low and middle income countries

Khan

2022

PLoS ONE

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Within the national innovation system literature, the low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) eligible for the World Bank’s International Development Association (IDA) support, are rarely part of empirical discourses on growth, development, and innovation. One major issue hindering empirical analyses in LMICs is the lack of complete data availability. This work offers a new full panel dataset with no missing values for IDA-eligible LMICs. I use a standard, widely respected multiple imputation method (specifically, Predictive Mean Matching) developed by Rubin in the 1980s, which conforms to the structure of multivariate continuous panel data at the country level. The incomplete input data consisting of many variables come from publicly available established sources. These variables, in turn, capture six crucial country-level capacities: technological capacity, financial capacity, human capital capacity, infrastructural capacity, public policy capacity, and social capacity. Such capacities are part and parcel of the National Absorptive Capacity Systems (NACS). The dataset (MSK dataset) thus produced contains data on 47 variables for 82 LMICs between 2005 and 2019. The dataset has passed a quality and reliability check and can therefore be used for comparative analyses of national absorptive capacities and development, transition, and convergence among LMICs.

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“…To reduce the gap between the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, innovation facilitators in poor countries need to be stronger and more effective (Rafer & Singer, 2002). However, innovation facilitator and innovation system characteristics of developing countries remain unexplored in the literature Khan, 2022). Low-and mediumincome countries absorb knowledge from abroad to create value for their local communities (Khan, 2022).…”

Section: Sustainable Development: Other Approachesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, innovation facilitator and innovation system characteristics of developing countries remain unexplored in the literature Khan, 2022). Low-and mediumincome countries absorb knowledge from abroad to create value for their local communities (Khan, 2022). showed differences in the innovation facilitators of developed and developing countries.…”

Section: Sustainable Development: Other Approachesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Driving sustainable development: eco-innovation systems and public policies

Chaparro Banegas

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This thesis has six chapters. Chapter 1 contextualizes the research, objectives, methodologies, and structure. Chapters 2, 3, 4, and 5 describe the four studies that together form the core of the thesis. Three of these studies have been published in international journals, two of which are indexed in the Journal Citations Report (JCR) and one of which is indexed in the Scimago Journal Ranking (SJR). Each chapter addresses one or more of the specific objectives in an attempt to meet the general objective. Chapter 6 offers concluding remarks, limitations, and future research avenues to build on this thesis.Chapter 2, "Innovation facilitators and sustainable development: a country comparative approach", was published in Environment, Development and Sustainability (Springer; JCR Q2 and SJR Q1, 2022). It focuses on determining the relationship between innovation facilitators and sustainable development in terms

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Absorptive capacities approaches for investigating national innovation systems in low and middle income countries

Cited by 12 publications

References 80 publications

Innovation facilitators and sustainable development: a country comparative approach

Innovation facilitators and sustainable development: a country comparative approach

Estimating a panel MSK dataset for comparative analyses of national absorptive capacity systems, economic growth, and development in low and middle income countries

Driving sustainable development: eco-innovation systems and public policies

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