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This book explores the drivers of technological upgrading and catch-up in the emerging economies, paying specific attention to technology and innovation policies, national innovation systems, the role of foreign direct investment and small and medium enterprises. It provides practical implications for other developing countries.
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Policy, Strategy and Catch-up: Cross-Country Analysis
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Policy, Strategy and Catch-up: Country Case Studies
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Innovation Systems and Technological Capabilities
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Foreign Direct Investment and Technology Transfer
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Technology and Sustainable Development
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
XIAOLAN FU is Director of Sanjaya Lall Programme for Technology and Management for Development, University Lecturer in Development Studies and Fellow of Green-Templeton College at Oxford University, UK. She is the author of Exports, Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Development in China, and received the EC Gate2Growth Academic Network 2005 'European Best Paper' Award. Dr Fu serves on the Advisory Expert Group of the OECD Global Investment Forum and is President-elect of the Chinese Economic Association (Europe/UK). She is also a Senior Research Associate at the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge.
LUC SOETE is Director of UNU-MERIT and Professor of International Economic Relations at Maastricht University, The Netherlands. He obtained his first degrees in economics and development economics at the University of Ghent, Belgium, before obtaining his DPhil in economics at the University of Sussex. Before coming to Maastricht in 1986, he worked at the Institute of Development Studies and the Science Policy Research Unit, both at the University of Sussex. He has published widely on the economics of technological change and innovation.
LUC SOETE is Director of UNU-MERIT and Professor of International Economic Relations at Maastricht University, The Netherlands. He obtained his first degrees in economics and development economics at the University of Ghent, Belgium, before obtaining his DPhil in economics at the University of Sussex. Before coming to Maastricht in 1986, he worked at the Institute of Development Studies and the Science Policy Research Unit, both at the University of Sussex. He has published widely on the economics of technological change and innovation.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Rise of Technological Power in the South
Editors: Xiaolan Fu, Luc Soete
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230276123
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Economics & Finance Collection, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-23840-4Published: 15 April 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-27612-3Published: 15 April 2010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 357
Topics: Development Economics, Industrial Organization, Regional/Spatial Science, Industries, International Economics