| Title: | Innovation and Inequality |
| Author: | Cozzens, Susan E. |
| Abstract: | Global inequality is a changing phenomenon molded by a variety of interlocking dynamic forces. Technological change is one of these. If we picture the world system as a cross-tabulation of nation states and technological capabilities, we see a core of advanced and advancing nations, a small set of countries rapidly developing their capabilities, and a large number of countries struggling to maintain or build (Sagasti 2004). These groups correspond roughly to the economic hierarchy of nations, in which only four countries have moved into the top group in the last five decades: South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, and Hong Kong (Milanovic 2005). It is no accident that these four are also the models constantly offered for technology-based economic development. |
| Type: | Working Paper |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1853/23051 |
| Date: | 2008-01-03 |
| Contributor: | Georgia Institute of Technology. School of Public Policy |
| Relation: | School of Public Policy Working Papers ; 30 |
| Publisher: | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Subject: |
Technology-based economic development
Economic hierarchy National innovation systems analysis Income inequality within countries |
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