Learning, Capability Building and Innovation for Development

A global cast of contributors examine economic development as a process of learning and technological accumulation and provide empirical evidence from different emerging countries. Today, a large number of scholars studying development understand this process as involving learning and capability building. Capability building is an active, not a passive, process. It requires a purposeful effort from the learner's side, with support and commitment on allocation of time and resources toward learning activities. This process implies the possibility of failure as well as success, as we also learn from failures. A global cast of academics and policy makers examines economic development as a process of learning and technological accumulation, showing how economic development is a process involving creative destruction. While markets and market competition play major roles in structuring the development process, non-market institutions and government policies matter Front Matter....Pages i-xiv Introduction....Pages 1-9 The Generation of Domestic Technological Capabilities: Measuring the Impact of the Contributions of Jorge Katz....Pages 10-36 The Latin American Structuralist School and the Innovation Systems Perspective: Jorge Katz, Learning and Micro and Macro Connections....Pages 37-57 The Significance of Jorge Katz’s Work for the Understanding of Learning and Technological Capability Building in Developing Countries....Pages 58-77 “Old” and “New” Approaches to Innovation Policy: A Systems Evolutionary Perspective....Pages 78-103 Industrial Productivity in Developing Nations....Pages 104-120 Productivity and Firm Heterogeneity in Chile....Pages 121-139 Developing Competing Capabilities in the Argentinean Industry (1958–2008)....Pages 140-159 Micro-Macro Interactions in Technological Learning and Growth....Pages 160-175 The Social Dimension of Behaviour: Macroeconomic Uncertainty and Firms’ Investment in R&D and in Machinery in Argentina....Pages 176-201 Macro, Meso and Micro Coordination and Technological Progress: Catch Up Experiences of Samsung and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation....Pages 202-221 Knowledge Regimes and Technological Catch Up....Pages 222-241 Catching Up in the 21st Century: Globalization, Knowledge and Capabilities in Latin America, a Case for Natural Resource Based Activities....Pages 242-262 Past Innovation Trajectories in Latin America and Current Innovation Trajectories in the Asian Driver Economies....Pages 263-281 Back Matter....Pages 282-296