Dancing without listening to the music: learning from some failures of the ‘national innovation systems’ in Latin America

Delvenne, Pierre; Thoreau, François

doi:10.4337/9781783471911.00007

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“…Reproducing Western innovation policies is a common practice in the Third World, and it is also called isomorphism. In Latin America, countries reproduced theoretical frameworks suitable for applying to developed OECD countries that did not account for the region's own particularities (Vasel, 2011;Delvenne & Thoreau, 2017).…”

Section: Securing Technological Monopolies In the Brazilian Marketmentioning

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The effects on local innovation arising from replicating the GDPR into the Brazilian General Data Protection Law

Canaan¹

2023

Internet Policy Review

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Following the implementation of the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Europe exported its data protection standards to Brazil's data protection legislation. Besides its manifest aim of providing data privacy rights, the GDPR also fosters economic benefits by incentivising the innovation of privacy-enhancing technologies. Therefore, using a TWAIL-based de-colonising methodology, this research article assesses the effects for innovation in Brazil arising from reproducing the European data regulation. It argues that this replication provided the LGPD with the principles that compel firms to innovate in the Brazilian privacy-enhancing technologies market. However, the Western firms, to the detriment of Brazilian firms, appropriate the resulting economic benefit of innovation because the former excel at introducing and securing technology monopolies in the Brazilian market. To rebalance opportunities for Brazilian firms, this paper advocates implementing local content policy for privacy-enhancing technologies, which requires firms to purchase a portion of their operations' inputs in the domestic market.Issue 1

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Section: Securing Technological Monopolies In the Brazilian Marketmentioning

confidence: 99%

The effects on local innovation arising from replicating the GDPR into the Brazilian General Data Protection Law

Canaan¹

2023

Internet Policy Review

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“…Among other things, the OECD has become internationally recognized for mainstreaming policy frameworks, including those elevating innovation to an object of collective international concern and coordination (such as the National Innovation System approach), and for its authoritative role in developing widely adopted innovation indicators (e.g., OECD Frascati and Oslo Manuals). As such, the organization has played a key role in harmonizing science, technology, and innovation policy across a substantial swath of national governments (Delvenne and Thoreau 2017;Laurent 2016). It has also been central to the proliferation of national and trans-national innovation agendas (Elzinga and Jamison 1995;Godin 2002).…”

Section: The Rise Of Responsible Innovation At the Oecd And The Ecmentioning

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Fixing Technology with Society: The Coproduction of Democratic Deficits and Responsible Innovation at the OECD and the European Commission

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Doezema

Pfotenhauer

2021

Science, Technology, & Human Values

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Long presented as a universal policy-recipe for social prosperity and economic growth, the promise of innovation seems to be increasingly in question, giving way to a new vision of progress in which society is advanced as a central enabler of technoeconomic development. Frameworks such as “Responsible” or “Mission-oriented” Innovation, for example, have become commonplace parlance and practice in the governance of the innovation–society nexus. In this paper, we study the dynamics by which this “social fix” to technoscience has gained legitimacy in institutions of global governance by investigating recent projects at two international organizations, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and the European Commission, to mainstream “Responsible Innovation” frameworks and instruments across countries. Our analysis shows how the turn to societal participation in both organizations relies on a new deficit logic—a democratic deficit of innovation—that frames a lack of societal engagement in innovation governance as a major barrier to the uptake and dissemination of new technologies. These deficit politics enable global governance institutions to present “Responsible Innovation” frameworks as the solution and to claim authority over the coproduction of particular forms of democracy and innovation as intertwined pillars of a market-liberal international order.

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“…Sin embargo, tanto la división del trabajo entre las casas matrices y sus filiales -localizada en economías periféricas-como la indivisibilidad locacional de las actividades de I+D cuestionan la ubicuidad de estos procesos y explican su concentración espacial en los países desarrollados, impulsando esfuerzos de adopción y adaptación a las condiciones locales en las filiales (Gorenstein & Moltoni, 2011). Además, estas regiones se insertan en forma incompleta en las cadenas globales de valor y adoptan procesos de innovación adaptativos, permeados por sus propias trayectorias tecnológicas (Delvenne & Thoreau, 2017).…”

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Proximidades en el aprendizaje tecnológico: aportes metodológicos para el estudio de los entramados locales en América Latina

2021

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La difusión de nuevas tecnologías en el marco de una creciente internacionalización de la producción representa un desafío para las economías latinoamericanas, debido a su impacto en las trayectorias de especialización y diversificación de los entramados productivos locales y la intensificación de procesos asimétricos e incompletos de aprendizaje. El enfoque de las proximidades ofrece elementos teórico-metodológicos útiles para aprehender el rol de las condiciones geográficas y no geográficas que operan en los procesos de aprendizaje e innovación. Sin embargo, este enfoque ha sido desarrollado con base en estudios teóricos y empíricos que analizan los procesos innovativos en países desarrollados y cuestionan la relevancia de la proximidad geográfica en estos procesos. Este artículo propone reflexionar sobre este enfoque y repensar su abordaje conceptual y su diseño metodológico para analizar procesos de innovación en los entramados tecno-productivos de América Latina. El análisis muestra que el estudio de este fenómeno —desde el enfoque de las proximidades— debe considerar su carácter complejo e indisociable del contexto y, por lo tanto, la importancia del estudio de caso como método de investigación, así como la tensión existente entre las dinámicas globales, locales y el papel ineludible de los Estados en estos procesos.

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Dancing without listening to the music: learning from some failures of the ‘national innovation systems’ in Latin America

Cited by 13 publications

References 50 publications

The effects on local innovation arising from replicating the GDPR into the Brazilian General Data Protection Law

The effects on local innovation arising from replicating the GDPR into the Brazilian General Data Protection Law

Fixing Technology with Society: The Coproduction of Democratic Deficits and Responsible Innovation at the OECD and the European Commission

Proximidades en el aprendizaje tecnológico: aportes metodológicos para el estudio de los entramados locales en América Latina

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