The 5th Globelics Academy
Proceedings of the 5th International Ph.D. School on Innovation and Economic Development,
Globelics Academy 2008
Tampere, 2nd of June 13th of June, 2008
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Recent Submissions
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Towards a taxonomy of innovation systems
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008)The concept of National Innovation System (NIS) has been recently applied in the context of developing nations even though it was originally developed in relation to the more developed economies (Japan, Scandinavian ... -
Strategic policies for capabilities acquisition and development: A taxonomy of policy models in terms of S&T priorities setting
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008)The publication of “Science the Endless Frontier” in July 1945 signaled the deep change occurred in the relationships between science, technology and society as a result of the war effort. In fact, the promise of modern ... -
Interpreting innovation surveys 2
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Design, implementation & analysis of innovation surveys: with a note on presenting results
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Financing of industrial innovations in India, Measuring the effectiveness of tax incentives for R&D
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Evolutionary Economic Theory and the National Innovation System Perspective for an Integrated African National Structural Transformation
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China's Innovation System and the Move Towards Harmonious Growth and Endogenous Innovation
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008)Observers around the world are impressed by the rapid growth of China’s economy, some with hope and others with fear. Some hope that China will offer the unique experience of successful economic growth and catch-up under ... -
NIS Transformation and Recombination Learning in China
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008)This paper applies the notion of national innovation systems (NIS) to analyze the transformation of China’s NIS in the 1980s and 1990s. It focuses on two issues. Firstly it probes the interaction between policy-making ... -
The research project “Comparative study of the national innovation systems of Brazil, Russia, India, China And South Africa (BRICS)”
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008)A significant part of the growth potential of the world economy for the coming decades resides mostly in some large less developed countries. Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) have such potential. More ... -
India as an emerging high tech giant, But does she have feet of clay?
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008)India’s economy has been performing well since the onset of reforms in 1991: growth rate in real GDP averaged around 5.7 per cent per annum during the 1990s and it has now increased to 6.9 per cent per annum during the ... -
Discussing innovation and development: Converging points between the Latin American school and the Innovation Systems perspective?
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008)From the 1950s to the 1970s the central preoccupations of the international research and policy agenda was to come to terms with underdevelopment. During this period a theoretical framework– structuralism - shaped the ... -
Nonlinearities in the development process: A nonparametric approach
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Forms of Knowledge, Modes of Innovation and Innovation Systems
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008)Inspired by the concepts tacit and codified knowledge introduced by Polanyi, this paper makes a distinction between two modes of innovation. On the one hand there are innovation strategies (Science, Technology, and Innovation, ... -
From Economics of Knowledge to the Learning Economy
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008)This chapter is about the production, diffusion and use of knowledge seen in an economic perspective. Fundamental distinctions between tacit and explicit knowledge and between knowhow, know-why, know-what and know-who are ... -
Human capital and growth
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008)Education and skill of employees have an economic value for firms and for the economy as a whole. Main question: does growth primarily driven by ‘human capital accumulation’ or ‘stock of human capital’ (Lucas Vs. Nelson ... -
The Use and Economic Impacts of ICT at the Macro-Micro levels in the Arab Gulf Countries
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008)In this paper we use some primary micro data from the firm survey of Nour (2002b) and some secondary cross countries data to examine four stylised facts on the use and economic impacts of ICT at both macro-micro levels in ... -
Sectoral systems of innovation
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Sectoral systems of innovation and economic development
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Financial System, Corporate Diversification and Technological Catching-up: South-Korea; an imitator to innovator
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008)Schumpeter emphasized ( 1943) that those who are starting “new things”, or innovating need to be provided with “profits for above what are necessary in order to introduce the corresponding investment” He argued that ... -
Innovation Dynamics as Co-evolutionary Processes:A Longitudinal Study of the Computer Services Sector in the Region of Attica, Greece
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008)We elaborate on the notion of innovation systems, and examine the case of the Computer Services Sector in the Region of Attica, Greece. Based on the coevolutionary framework of Lewin et al., (1999), we question the ...
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