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Author-Name: Michele Capriati
Author-X-Name-First: Michele
Author-X-Name-Last: Capriati
Title: Capabilities, freedoms and innovation: exploring connections
Abstract:
The following review aims to explore some of the connections
between the capabilities approach and innovation economics to discover
affinities and possible integrations. We begin the paper by presenting a
brief overview of the two lines of enquiry: the relationship between
innovation and growth and Sen's contribution to the capabilities approach
and human development. Then, we start exploring the various
interconnections between human development and innovation. This paper
shows that these two lines of economic analysis and practice, which follow
very different intellectual and practical paths, have many interesting
connections in the common ground of economic development. The core
conclusion of this review is that the capabilities approach and the human
development theory can provide a normative framework for the development
of the social and institutional context in which innovation systems (ISs)
develop and that ISs approach can offer a strategy for growth which is
conducive to the expansion of capabilities.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 1-17
Issue: 1
Volume: 3
Year: 2013
Month: 4
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Author-Name: Jorge Niosi
Author-X-Name-First: Jorge
Author-X-Name-Last: Niosi
Author-Name: Tomas G. Bas
Author-X-Name-First: Tomas G.
Author-X-Name-Last: Bas
Author-Name: Julieta Flores Amador
Author-X-Name-First: Julieta Flores
Author-X-Name-Last: Amador
Title: Biopharmaceuticals in Latin America: challenges and opportunities
Abstract:
This paper is about catching up in human health
biotechnology. It analyses biotechnology publication and patents and
conducted interviews with academics and company executives in several
countries. Some 60 interviews conducted in the three countries made clear
that public support for biotechnology in the region is low when compared
with OECD and emerging Asian countries. Yet, some companies built
successful independent business models in the region. This paper is
focused on the three countries that have the largest pharmaceutical
industry in Latin America (LA): Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico. These
countries are suppliers for the whole region and are exporting medicines
outside the region. All three countries are net drug importers, but local
laboratories represent a substantial share of their domestic markets. The
pharmaceutical industry is experiencing a radical organizational shift,
namely the merging of the innovative and generic pharmaceuticals and
dedicated biotechnology models. Such change may help these emerging
countries to increase their innovative capabilities. To further such
industrial catching up would require increased investments by LA national
governments in both public- and private-sector research.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 19-36
Issue: 1
Volume: 3
Year: 2013
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2012.760899
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Author-Name: Keun Lee
Author-X-Name-First: Keun
Author-X-Name-Last: Lee
Title: Measuring the elements of knowledge regimes and their links to technological catch-up: a synthesis based on the East Asian experience
Abstract:
This paper provides a review of the roles of knowledge access
and learning as determinants of technological catch-up and focuses on the
relationship between the quantifiable measures of elements of the
knowledge regimes of sectors and the possibility of catch-up. Catching-up
implications of the various elements of knowledge regimes are discussed,
after grouping them into two categories: those related to accessibility to
the foreign knowledge base (degree of embodied technology transfer and
modularity) and those related to the learning possibilities (tacitness of
knowledge and cycle time of technologies). We find that catch-up
possibilities are positively linked to the accessibility to foreign
knowledge base, the degree of embodied technology transfer, and modularity
and that a higher degree of knowledge tacitness tends to interfere with
learning possibility while the impact of cycle time of technologies would
be dubious depending upon the absorption capacity of the latecomers. It is
also pointed out that the impact of the knowledge regimes would be
different on different types of firms. Policy implications and remaining
issues are discussed.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 37-53
Issue: 1
Volume: 3
Year: 2013
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2012.713198
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Author-Name: Swati Mehta
Author-X-Name-First: Swati
Author-X-Name-Last: Mehta
Title: Technology spillovers and productivity: analysis of the Indian manufacturing sector
Abstract:
Endogenous growth theories postulate a positive impact of
'technology spillovers' on productivity that transverse the economic
policies, especially of the developing countries towards greater
integration. The present paper attempts to examine this relationship by
taking the case of Indian manufacturing industries. A panel regression
model was framed to examine the impact of indigenous R&D and technology
spillovers on productivity. The analysis, however did not find 'technology
spillovers' to be an important determinant of industrial productivity,
irrespective of 'technology gap' or 'productivity gap' within the sector.
On the contrary, the investment in indigenous R&D was also found to be
minimal, emphasizing an immediate attention to strengthen the source of
productivity growth in the sector.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 55-69
Issue: 1
Volume: 3
Year: 2013
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2012.760900
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Author-Name: Gustavo Britto
Author-X-Name-First: Gustavo
Author-X-Name-Last: Britto
Author-Name: Ot�vio Camargo
Author-X-Name-First: Ot�vio
Author-X-Name-Last: Camargo
Author-Name: Glenda Kruss
Author-X-Name-First: Glenda
Author-X-Name-Last: Kruss
Author-Name: Eduardo Albuquerque
Author-X-Name-First: Eduardo
Author-X-Name-Last: Albuquerque
Title: Global interactions between firms and universities
Abstract:
This paper investigates interactions between firms and
universities in a global context. The point of departure is a review of
the ever-evolving literature on innovation. Three major strands of the
literature can be identified: interactions between firms and universities,
transnational corporations and their global reach, and more recently,
global innovation networks (GINs). These strands have intersections that
provide a starting point for a theoretical framework presented in order to
assist the analysis of the role of universities in innovation networks,
and the ways in which emerging countries are inserted into global
hierarchies. Underlying the framework is the notion that the nature of
national innovation systems shapes the national role in existing
innovation networks. Therefore, immature national innovation systems will
be associated with immature or incomplete GINs.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 71-87
Issue: 1
Volume: 3
Year: 2013
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2012.762169
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Author-Name: Rajah Rasiah
Author-X-Name-First: Rajah
Author-X-Name-Last: Rasiah
Author-Name: Fathimath Rasheed
Author-X-Name-First: Fathimath
Author-X-Name-Last: Rasheed
Title: Firm size, export intensity, and technological capabilities in Sri Lankan manufacturing firms: an evolutionary analysis
Abstract:
This article analyses size-based differences in export
intensity (X/Y) and technological
capabilities in Sri Lankan manufacturing firms. Consistent with
evolutionary arguments, the results show that size-based differences in
X/Y and technological capabilities vary
across industries. After controlling for age, the results show that large
firms were more export intensive than SMEs in the clothing industry, while
it was the opposite in the food and beverage industry. Large firms enjoyed
an edge over SMEs in human resource (HR) capability in the rubber industry
and process technology (PT) in the food and beverage industry. SMEs
enjoyed higher adaptive capabilities than large firms in the clothing and
food and beverage industries. Scale dimensions mattered in HR capability
in the rubber industry and PT capability in the food and beverage
industry. Flexibility to support changes in demand were important in
explaining the higher adaptive engineering capabilities enjoyed by SMEs
compared with large firms in the clothing and food and beverage
industries. The variations show that it is extremely important not to
generalize from particular experiences to generate policy recommendations.
Hence, country and industry specificities matter when initiating
institutional change to support technological upgrading.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 89-101
Issue: 1
Volume: 3
Year: 2013
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/17494060.2012.762166
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Author-Name: Christopher Foster
Author-X-Name-First: Christopher
Author-X-Name-Last: Foster
Author-Name: Richard Heeks
Author-X-Name-First: Richard
Author-X-Name-Last: Heeks
Title: Analyzing policy for inclusive innovation: the mobile sector and base-of-the-pyramid markets in Kenya
Abstract:
Recent interest in inclusive innovation to serve
base-of-the-pyramid markets has so far produced relatively little evidence
about the role of policy. Drawing on cases from Kenya's mobile phone
sector that have successfully scaled innovations to poor consumers, we
suggest that policy-making is not only present, but can also have a
significant role in shaping and supporting inclusive innovation systems.
In these cases, inclusive innovation has been built upon a reinforcing
circle of adaptive innovation, dynamic competition, and presence of
innovation intermediaries within poor communities. Following regulatory
interventions that helped initiate markets, policy has supported these
facilitators of inclusive innovation in various ways. But implementation
gaps can dampen innovation or allow it to proceed in directions that
undermine quality. Overall, this paper offers a systematic approach for
analyzing the role of policy in inclusive innovation, an example of the
multiple domains that must be integrated if inclusive innovation is to be
purposely supported, and evidence that the implementation of such policies
matters as much as their content.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 103-119
Issue: 1
Volume: 3
Year: 2013
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2013.764628
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Author-Name: Dinar Kale
Author-X-Name-First: Dinar
Author-X-Name-Last: Kale
Author-Name: Rebecca Hanlin
Author-X-Name-First: Rebecca
Author-X-Name-Last: Hanlin
Author-Name: Joanna Chataway
Author-X-Name-First: Joanna
Author-X-Name-Last: Chataway
Title: New drugs and health technologies for low-income populations: will the private sector meet the needs of low-income populations in developing countries?
Abstract:
This paper argues that the development of targeted health
technologies for poor people will require a new mix of technology,
organizations and institutions which we conceptualize as new social
technologies. Using a technology-market matrix, we explore these new
social technologies which may sometimes include multi-national companies
but are also associated with developing country private sector firms and
not-for-profit product development partnerships. The paper argues that
these collaborative forms of social technology are most likely to generate
and deliver new physical technologies and innovation processes required by
low-income users.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 121-137
Issue: 1
Volume: 3
Year: 2013
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2013.764629
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Author-Name: Christabell, P. J.
Author-X-Name-First: P. J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Christabell
Title: Social innovation for women empowerment: Kudumbashree in Kerala
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 139-140
Issue: 1
Volume: 3
Year: 2013
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2013.764630
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Author-Name: Isaac Kwamena Arthur
Author-X-Name-First: Isaac Kwamena
Author-X-Name-Last: Arthur
Title: Experience economy, innovation and traditional industries
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 141-141
Issue: 1
Volume: 3
Year: 2013
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2012.721528
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Author-Name: Nora Engel
Author-X-Name-First: Nora
Author-X-Name-Last: Engel
Title: Tuberculosis in India: a case of innovation and control
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 141-142
Issue: 1
Volume: 3
Year: 2013
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2012.721529
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Author-Name: Atma Ram Ghimire
Author-X-Name-First: Atma Ram
Author-X-Name-Last: Ghimire
Title: Information, communication and social networks: the innovative role of telecentres in rural Nepal
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 142-142
Issue: 1
Volume: 3
Year: 2013
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2012.721530
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Author-Name: Joni Jupesta
Author-X-Name-First: Joni
Author-X-Name-Last: Jupesta
Title: Modelling the introduction of biofuel in the transportation sector in Indonesia
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 143-143
Issue: 1
Volume: 3
Year: 2013
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2012.721531
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Author-Name: Nejla YACOUB
Author-X-Name-First: Nejla
Author-X-Name-Last: YACOUB
Title: Drugs patentability and pharmaceutical innovation in Tunisia
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 143-144
Issue: 1
Volume: 3
Year: 2013
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2012.721532
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Author-Name: Inna Platonova
Author-X-Name-First: Inna
Author-X-Name-Last: Platonova
Title: International development partnerships and diffusion of renewable energy technologies in developing countries: cases in Latin America
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 144-144
Issue: 1
Volume: 3
Year: 2013
Month: 4
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Author-Name: N. S. Siddharthan
Author-X-Name-First: N. S.
Author-X-Name-Last: Siddharthan
Author-Name: K. Narayanan
Author-X-Name-First: K.
Author-X-Name-Last: Narayanan
Title: Introduction to innovation and global competitiveness: case of India's manufacturing sector
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 145-150
Issue: 2
Volume: 3
Year: 2013
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2013.834157
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Author-Name: Bishwanath Goldar
Author-X-Name-First: Bishwanath
Author-X-Name-Last: Goldar
Title: R&D intensity and exports: a study of Indian pharmaceutical firms
Abstract:
The export intensity of Indian pharmaceutical firms has increased
substantially in the period after 1995 when the new, more restrictive
patent regime was introduced in India. The hike in export intensity has
been accompanied by an increase in R&D intensity of Indian pharmaceutical
firms. The results of the econometric analysis presented in the paper
indicate that increased R&D efforts of Indian pharmaceutical firms were
responsible in a major way for the observed increase in export intensity.
The econometric results suggest that the impact of R&D intensity on
exports depends on the level of productivity already reached by the firms.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 151-167
Issue: 2
Volume: 3
Year: 2013
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2013.828878
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Author-Name: Vidhisha Vyas
Author-X-Name-First: Vidhisha
Author-X-Name-Last: Vyas
Author-Name: K. Narayanan
Author-X-Name-First: K.
Author-X-Name-Last: Narayanan
Author-Name: A. Ramanathan
Author-X-Name-First: A.
Author-X-Name-Last: Ramanathan
Title: Mergers and acquisitions, technological efforts and exports: a study of pharmaceutical sector in India
Abstract:
The paper attempts to examine the role of mergers and acquisitions (M&A)
and technological efforts in determining the export competitiveness of
firms belonging to the pharmaceutical sector in India. M&A provides
synergistic gains to firms. New competitive advantages arise from the
complementarities of merging and acquiring firms' specific intangible
assets like production skills, brand names and better management
capabilities. These gains could affect positively the export behaviour of
domestic firms and increase their degree of internationalization.
Technological efforts and other factors like firm size, age, multinational
enterprise affiliation (MNEA) and capital intensity are also considered in
the study. Two different econometric models, namely Tobit and Double
Specification models are used for estimation and the results have been
compared. The results of econometric exercise confirm that M&A,
technological efforts, size and firm-specific characteristics are
important in explaining export behaviour of firms.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 169-186
Issue: 2
Volume: 3
Year: 2013
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2013.828882
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Author-Name: Rahul Z. More
Author-X-Name-First: Rahul Z.
Author-X-Name-Last: More
Author-Name: Karuna Jain
Author-X-Name-First: Karuna
Author-X-Name-Last: Jain
Title: Innovation and competitiveness among the firms in the Indian automobile cluster
Abstract:
Automobile original equipment manufacturers are expanding their production
bases to emerging economies to expand their market reach and leverage the
existing capacity for auto-component manufacturing and provide
opportunities for suppliers and subcontractors to build innovation
capabilities leading to better performance. The innovation systems
perspective and global value chain perspective contributes to develop
important framework for evaluating innovation performance and maintain
competitiveness of firms. These firms utilize external source of
innovation and knowledge spillover externalities at cluster. This study
explores firm's innovation capabilities and economic performance in the
Indian automobile cluster. Empirical evidence shows that how firms can
interact with Innovation Systems and Global Value Chains to build
innovation capabilities (technological capability, manufacturing
capability, organizational capability, strategic planning capability and
marketing capability). The structured equation modeling has been performed
to test hypotheses and our analysis shows that how firms' utilize external
source of innovation and enhance their innovation capabilities and achieve
global competitiveness.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 187-204
Issue: 2
Volume: 3
Year: 2013
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2013.828886
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Author-Name: Neelam Singh
Author-X-Name-First: Neelam
Author-X-Name-Last: Singh
Title: Influence of outward-foreign direct investment and technological efforts on exports: Indian auto component firms
Abstract:
The Indian automotive industry is a classic example of increasing export
competitiveness and of emerging market multinationals. Employing a sample
of auto component producer-exporters during 2010-2011, we examine the
firm-level determinants of the 'Level' at which the firm exports - i.e.
the probability of being exporter to original equipment manufacturers
(OEMs), and to 'OEMs/Tier firms'. The factors affecting the total value of
exports (including aftermarket exports) are also investigated. We analyse
the effects of recent outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) - its
intensity, and number of manufacturing-OFDI and of non-manufacturing OFDI
enterprises - on these dimensions of exports from Home by the firm. We
thereby extend the 'substitutability vs. complementarity' hypothesis to
the exports 'Level'. The role of technological and marketing variables
like ISO14001 is also assessed. While an increase in OFDI intensity
consistently increases the total exports, the empirical evidence on the
exports 'Level' reflects 'substitutability' in case of intense
OFDI-internationalization.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 205-221
Issue: 2
Volume: 3
Year: 2013
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2013.829965
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Author-Name: Pradeep Kumar Keshari
Author-X-Name-First: Pradeep Kumar
Author-X-Name-Last: Keshari
Title: Technological determinants of firm-level technical efficiency in the Indian machinery industry
Abstract:
In the framework of resources-based view, a firm's performance is often
defined in terms of its efficiency level in relation to other firms in an
industry. Adopting this framework, the study examines the technological
determinants of firm-level technical efficiency (TE) in the context of
Indian machinery industry (IMI). It first computes the firm- and
year-specific TE by estimating a stochastic frontier production function
with the help of an unbalanced panel of data on a sample of 178 firms
(with 940 observation) for seven years covering financial years from
2000/2001 to 2006/2007. Thereafter, the study analyses the determinants of
firm-level TE by estimating a random-effect panel data model with Tobit
specification. The study finds that a firm in the IMI could improve its TE
by enhancing its technological resources and capabilities
through attraction of foreign direct investment (FDI), import of
disembodied technology, in-house research and development (R&D), import of
intermediate goods and use of capital intensive techniques of production.
In addition, it is also found that the larger size and younger firms;
firms with higher networth intensity and higher product differentiation;
firms based in less concentrated sub-industries of IMI are more
efficient.-super-†
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 223-238
Issue: 2
Volume: 3
Year: 2013
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2013.828880
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Author-Name: Jaya Prakash Pradhan
Author-X-Name-First: Jaya Prakash
Author-X-Name-Last: Pradhan
Author-Name: Keshab Das
Author-X-Name-First: Keshab
Author-X-Name-Last: Das
Title: Exporting by Indian small and medium enterprises: role of regional technological knowledge, agglomeration and foreign direct investment
Abstract:
This study analyses regional determinants of export performance of small
and medium enterprises (SMEs) in India. The export determinant analysis
brings out the significance of certain key physical and economic
infrastructure for SMEs, particularly access to roads, ports and loan
finance. Local market conditions, namely the size, growth and per capita
income of the host states also favourably affect SME export activities.
State's stock of technological knowledge also encourages SME exporting.
While direct competition with foreign players tends to dampen exporting by
SMEs, foreign shareholding participation in SMEs allows affiliated firms
to achieve higher level of exports. Apart from improving the key business
support infrastructure, export orientation of SMEs could be enhanced by
networking them with R&D facilities and providing them easier access to
information about overseas markets. Relatively smaller enterprises need
greater support as they are disadvantaged by their size.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 239-257
Issue: 2
Volume: 3
Year: 2013
Month: 10
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Author-Name: Harshana Kasseeah
Author-X-Name-First: Harshana
Author-X-Name-Last: Kasseeah
Title: Innovation and performance in small- and medium-sized enterprises: evidence from Mauritius
Abstract:
This paper studies the relationship between innovation and firm
performance in small- and medium-sized firms in Mauritius, given that
these firms are important contributors to growth and employment in the
economy. Innovation is proxied by the acquisition of technological
developments, expenditure on research and development and the introduction
of new or significantly improved products. Results obtained indicate that
innovation affects the performance of firms in Mauritius even after
controlling for factors such as experience of the owner-manager, age of
the firm, size of the firm, region in which the firm is located and the
sector in which the firm operates.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 259-275
Issue: 2
Volume: 3
Year: 2013
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2013.825069
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Author-Name: Rainer Quitzow
Author-X-Name-First: Rainer
Author-X-Name-Last: Quitzow
Title: Towards an integrated approach to promoting environmental innovation and national competitiveness
Abstract:
This paper explores how governments can promote environmentally friendly
technologies while sustaining national competitiveness. Taking the Porter
Hypothesis as its starting point, it briefly discusses the related
literature on the relationship between environmental policy and
competitiveness. It concludes that this literature has significant
limitations and, therefore, proposes an alternative approach to tackling
this question. It begins by reviewing the literature on
innovation-oriented environmental policy. Next, it provides an overview of
the literature on the role of government policy in promoting national
competitiveness. It finds that recent shifts in the latter debate have
increased the potential for integrating the two policy domains. The paper
concludes with a discussion of the potentials and challenges of such an
integrated policy, drawing on examples from the field of renewable energy.
Based on this empirical example, a number of policy conclusions for both
industrialized and emerging countries are presented.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 277-296
Issue: 2
Volume: 3
Year: 2013
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2013.825070
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Author-Name: Vandana Ujjual
Author-X-Name-First: Vandana
Author-X-Name-Last: Ujjual
Author-Name: Parimal Patel
Author-X-Name-First: Parimal
Author-X-Name-Last: Patel
Title: Multinational enterprises' global competitiveness through emerging markets strategies and integration in global innovation networks
Abstract:
This research undertaken at the foreign subsidiary level explores how
multinational enterprises (MNEs) from advanced nations harness global
network-integrated R&D when it is extended to emerging markets. In both
developed and developing country contexts, organizations are momentously
devising strategies to integrate global innovation networks (GIN). Still a
clear understanding of this rapidly emerging phenomenon is lacking. Case
studies of 26 R&D Centres located in India and China belonging to 18
European MNEs in high-technology sectors enabled us to explore the
underlying process. An integrated framework developed to position various
R&D strategies that MNEs pursued in host facilities, enabled us to
identify key dimensions. The core argument is that strategies are not
static and can evolve in many ways. We are able to identify that this
results from the inter-play between - the level of capabilities
that have evolved in host R&D facilities, and the extent
of integration in the GIN of parent MNE. Further, these
strategies are not mutually exclusive and fit on a continuum. A trend
towards greater integration in GIN and a deepening of local linkage is
apparent, raising important issues regarding its implications. From a
policy perspective, curtailing this process can impact the long-term
competitiveness of industries and firms. Our research confirms that
technology-based innovations now require combining knowledge inputs from
multiple fields. Such new and complimentary knowledge/functions are
increasingly being sourced from emerging markets. From an MNE perspective,
past engagement in emerging markets and their experiences in interacting
with host institutions are most critical, specifically linkages with the
government and key stakeholders in R&D consortia. This is vital to
mobilize host-market-related inputs and specialized technical
knowledge/functions.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 297-312
Issue: 2
Volume: 3
Year: 2013
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2013.825071
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Author-X-Name-First: Jojo
Author-X-Name-Last: Jacob
Title: PATSTAT database for patent-based research
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 313-315
Issue: 2
Volume: 3
Year: 2013
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2013.833769
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Author-Name: Adnan Syed Muhammad
Author-X-Name-First: Adnan Syed
Author-X-Name-Last: Muhammad
Title: Exploring management issues of cross-border R&D alliances in the Australian biotechnology industry
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 317-317
Issue: 2
Volume: 3
Year: 2013
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2013.833774
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Author-Name: Thaarcis Albin
Author-X-Name-First: Thaarcis
Author-X-Name-Last: Albin
Title: Diffusion of computer numerically controlled machine tools in India: pre and post liberalization period - a comparison
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 317-318
Issue: 2
Volume: 3
Year: 2013
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2013.833777
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Author-Name: Marcela Amaro Rosales
Author-X-Name-First: Marcela Amaro
Author-X-Name-Last: Rosales
Title: Incentives for agro-industrial and food biotechnology innovation in Mexico
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 318-319
Issue: 2
Volume: 3
Year: 2013
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2013.833778
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Author-Name: Monica Plechero
Author-X-Name-First: Monica
Author-X-Name-Last: Plechero
Title: The changing geography of innovation: Chinese and Indian regions and the global flows of innovation
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 319-319
Issue: 2
Volume: 3
Year: 2013
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2013.833781
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Author-Name: Nomita Sharma
Author-X-Name-First: Nomita
Author-X-Name-Last: Sharma
Title: Management of innovation in small and medium enterprises in India
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 319-320
Issue: 2
Volume: 3
Year: 2013
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2013.764632
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Author-Name: Fernando Santiago
Author-X-Name-First: Fernando
Author-X-Name-Last: Santiago
Title: Innovation for inclusive development
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 1-4
Issue: 1
Volume: 4
Year: 2014
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2014.890353
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Author-Name: Susan Cozzens
Author-X-Name-First: Susan
Author-X-Name-Last: Cozzens
Author-Name: Judith Sutz
Author-X-Name-First: Judith
Author-X-Name-Last: Sutz
Title: Innovation in informal settings: reflections and proposals for a research agenda
Abstract:
This paper addresses the issue of innovation in informal settings as a
necessary step towards the understanding of the role innovation can play
in inclusive development. It reviews major concepts from the innovation
studies literature as well as from the informal economy vintage, blending
them with different conceptualizations of innovation: inclusive, below the
radar, and bottom of the pyramid; and diverse approaches: cooperation for
innovation, grassroots innovations, indigenous knowledge, gender and
institutions. The need to bridge intellectual traditions with rather weak
links so far inspires a research agenda, strongly interdisciplinary in
nature, presented at the end of the paper.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 5-31
Issue: 1
Volume: 4
Year: 2014
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2013.876803
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Author-Name: Joanna Chataway
Author-X-Name-First: Joanna
Author-X-Name-Last: Chataway
Author-Name: Rebecca Hanlin
Author-X-Name-First: Rebecca
Author-X-Name-Last: Hanlin
Author-Name: Raphael Kaplinsky
Author-X-Name-First: Raphael
Author-X-Name-Last: Kaplinsky
Title: Inclusive innovation: an architecture for policy development
Abstract:
The past two decades have been characterized by an increasing uncoupling
of economic growth and social and economic development. Outside of China,
the numbers living in absolute poverty have remained stubbornly large; in
Africa, they have increased substantially. Although this uncoupling has
multiple sources, the trajectory of innovation (large in scale, capital
intensive in nature and destructive of the environment) has contributed to
these outcomes. Reorienting towards a more 'inclusive innovation' path has
an important role to play in overcoming exclusion. However, we have only a
weak understanding of the definition, nature and dynamics of inclusive
innovation, and this paper seeks to fill this conceptual gap. It argues
that inclusive innovation needs to be understood and developed in the
context of a holistic conception of the innovation cycle, the distinction
between process and product innovation and the roles played by the poor as
both producers and consumer. It further charts the growing interest of
private sector actors in inclusive innovation (including, but not confined
to transnational corporations seeking the 'fortune at the bottom of the
pyramid') and large global funds working in tandem with the private sector
and governments. Consideration is also given to the role which growth
trajectories play in determining the direction of innovation and in
promoting linkages between the globally absolute poor (incomes below $1pd)
and those with discretionary cash incomes living in the margins above
$1pd. The paper concludes with a call for a more holistic and balanced
approach to inclusive innovation to be adopted by a range of stakeholders
so that resources are deployed most effectively to aid the recoupling of
growth and development.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 33-54
Issue: 1
Volume: 4
Year: 2014
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2013.876800
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Author-Name: Valeria Arza
Author-X-Name-First: Valeria
Author-X-Name-Last: Arza
Author-Name: Patrick van Zwanenberg
Author-X-Name-First: Patrick
Author-X-Name-Last: van Zwanenberg
Title: Innovation in informal settings but in which direction? The case of small cotton farming systems in Argentina
Abstract:
We compare two very different kinds of innovation in the same informal
setting; that of small-scale cotton production in northeast Argentina. One
involved the informal production and sale of copied genetically modified
seeds, an innovation that fitted readily within an incumbent set of
socio-technical practices concerned with intensive commodity crop
production. The other involved new agro-ecological techniques; a radical
departure from incumbent practices. By contrasting these cases, we argue
that the potential of informal innovation to better address the problems
of marginalized actors depends on the broader socio-technical system to
which innovation seeks to contribute.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 55-72
Issue: 1
Volume: 4
Year: 2014
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2013.876801
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Author-Name: K.J. Joseph
Author-X-Name-First: K.J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Joseph
Title: Exploring exclusion in innovation systems: case of plantation agriculture in India
Abstract:
In the context of the inclusive development discourse to extend the
benefits of economic growth to disadvantaged groups, this paper postulates
that innovation is the key driver of development and that the underlying
systems of innovation in general and the learning, innovation and
competence-building process in particular should become inclusive.
Innovation is generally assumed to apply to the industrial and high-tech
sectors; however, in order to achieve inclusion, this paper argues that
knowledge intensification for innovation could strengthen and reach
sectors that are labour-intensive and labour-extensive in developing
countries. Building on the taxonomy of social exclusion developed by
Amartya Sen, the study evolves new conceptual categories such as
subordinated inclusion, illusive inclusion, sustained exclusion and
transient exclusion. The case of innovation system in India's plantation
sector, despite concerted policies, presents the empirical evidence for
the prevalence of the varied forms of exclusion articulated by Amartya Sen
and throws light on the new forms of exclusion. The study finds the
persistence of active exclusion along with subordinated inclusion in the
organization of commodity boards and institutional innovations for the
promotion of production and marketing. Subordinated inclusion appears to
prevail in the institutional arrangements for research and development and
institutional innovations in the labour market result in illusive
inclusion.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 73-90
Issue: 1
Volume: 4
Year: 2014
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2014.890352
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Author-Name: Rakesh Basant
Author-X-Name-First: Rakesh
Author-X-Name-Last: Basant
Author-Name: Pulak Mishra
Author-X-Name-First: Pulak
Author-X-Name-Last: Mishra
Title: Determinants of inter-industry variations in research and development efforts in Indian manufacturing sector: a dynamic panel data analysis
Abstract:
Several studies have explored the determinants of firms' innovative
efforts, but a consensus on the conceptual underpinnings and empirical
manifestations of these determinants is yet to emerge. This paper attempts
to understand the role of several factors in determining inter-industry
variations in research and development (R&D) efforts in Indian
manufacturing sector. Using Arellano-Bond dynamic panel estimation
technique and a panel data set of 34 manufacturing industries over the
period from 2001-2002 to 2008-2009, the paper finds that firms in
industries with greater R&D efforts in the past, larger participation of
the multinational corporations (MNCs), higher capital intensity, and
greater penetration in the international market through exports spend more
on R&D. On the other hand, R&D efforts are less in industries with larger
incidence of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and greater competition from
imports. The degree of sellers' concentration in a market, size of the
market, product differentiation, purchase of technology, and the level and
variations profitability do not make any significant difference in R&D
intensity across industries. Our findings raise some important policy
issues relating to encouraging entry of MNCs through Greenfield
investments, restricting M&A, and promoting exports.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 91-109
Issue: 1
Volume: 4
Year: 2014
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2014.881078
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Author-Name: Paul Dewick
Author-X-Name-First: Paul
Author-X-Name-Last: Dewick
Author-Name: Ivan Hernandez
Author-X-Name-First: Ivan
Author-X-Name-Last: Hernandez
Title: Entrepreneurship, institutional variety and economic development
Abstract:
The contribution of entrepreneurship to economic growth
varies across countries at different stages of economic development. The
type of entrepreneurship also varies as countries
develop: the ratio of necessity-based entrepreneurial firms (new
entrepreneurial ventures born to escape unemployment) relative to
opportunity-based entrepreneurial firms (new entrepreneurial ventures
driven by business opportunities) changes as economies grow. Government
has an interest in shaping the institutional environment in a way that
supports dynamic entrepreneurial activity and contributes to economic
growth. In this paper, we endogenize institutional variety into modern
evolutionary models of diffusion; variety not only in organizational
structures but also in investment financing of entrepreneurial firms. We
discuss how our analysis updates understanding of modern evolutionary
models of diffusion and we reflect on the practical implications for
policy-makers to support entrepreneurial activities and stimulate economic
growth.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 111-127
Issue: 1
Volume: 4
Year: 2014
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2013.876798
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Author-Name: Chidambaran G. Iyer
Author-X-Name-First: Chidambaran G.
Author-X-Name-Last: Iyer
Title: Harnessing satellite technology for education development: case studies from India
Abstract:
Using the functions of innovations systems approach, this paper tries to
understand the use of satellites for access to education. This is done by
analysing the experience of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay
distance education network and the primary school network in the
Hindi-speaking states of India. In both of these networks, the initial
strong thrust could not be sustained. Though lack of resources was the
main reason in both the networks, the precursor for the lack of resources
was different for each of the networks. IIT Bombay network was unable to
provide connectivity fast enough for the rapidly growing demand across the
country and had to find an alternative technology. With respect to primary
school network, the key resource crunch was with respect to trained
manpower and security personnel for the equipments deployed, and lack of
support from softer institutions like culture.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 129-143
Issue: 1
Volume: 4
Year: 2014
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2013.876799
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Author-Name: Mika Raunio
Author-X-Name-First: Mika
Author-X-Name-Last: Raunio
Author-Name: Mika Kautonen
Author-X-Name-First: Mika
Author-X-Name-Last: Kautonen
Title: Transnationalizing innovation systems by transplanting innovation platforms
Abstract:
The feasibility of the concept of a national innovation system (NIS) in
the globalizing world had already been questioned in its early days and
recently long-time advocates of the NIS approach have also raised their
doubts. Along with more traditional facilitating policy model, we propose
conceptually platform-based policy models with four
subcategories that can be considered as appropriate in relation to
innovation policies that intend to deal with an increasing rate of
border-crossing innovation activities. Building on the views of system and
governance failure, we also argue that a
community-oriented approach might provide more systemic
and hence more efficient and self-sustaining linkages between regional
innovation systems that are located in different countries. We will
introduce some recent policy measures from the Nordic countries,
especially from Finland but also from Denmark, in order to link the
conceptual discussion to real-life policies. The purpose is by no means
narrowly restricted to an empirical categorization of the Nordic cases,
but to outline stylized policy models related to the internationalization
of an innovation system that could be applied more generally when
designing or analysing policies.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 145-160
Issue: 1
Volume: 4
Year: 2014
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2013.876804
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Author-Name: Ke Xu
Author-X-Name-First: Ke
Author-X-Name-Last: Xu
Author-Name: Xianjun Li
Author-X-Name-First: Xianjun
Author-X-Name-Last: Li
Title: Technological innovation from imitation in latecomer firms: evidence from China's auto firms
Abstract:
Despite the significant research progress on technological innovation in
developing countries, little literature has been reported concerning
China's auto sector. Yet China is now the largest automotive producer and
sales market in the world. Through a process from imitation to innovation
among auto firms in China a hybrid model of technological innovation can
be observed. China's auto firms have not followed the catching-up models
adopted in other newly industrializing economies. There are critical
differences between Chinese state-owned enterprises and private firms
reflected in their technological efforts and achievements. Imitation plays
an important role in achieving technological catching-up.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 161-173
Issue: 1
Volume: 4
Year: 2014
Month: 4
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Author-Name: Richard Heeks
Author-X-Name-First: Richard
Author-X-Name-Last: Heeks
Author-Name: Christopher Foster
Author-X-Name-First: Christopher
Author-X-Name-Last: Foster
Author-Name: Yanuar Nugroho
Author-X-Name-First: Yanuar
Author-X-Name-Last: Nugroho
Title: New models of inclusive innovation for development
Abstract:
This special issue of Innovation and Development focuses
on inclusive innovation; specifically on analysis of the new models of
this form of innovation which are emerging. After discussing the growing
need for research into those models, this editorial paper interrogates the
meaning of 'inclusive innovation' and what it means to understand
inclusive innovation in terms of models. The editorial then outlines the
contribution of the papers that make up this special issue before drawing
out some lessons for inclusive innovation policy and practice, and
discussing future research priorities.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 175-185
Issue: 2
Volume: 4
Year: 2014
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2014.928982
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Author-Name: Theo Papaioannou
Author-X-Name-First: Theo
Author-X-Name-Last: Papaioannou
Title: How inclusive can innovation and development be in the twenty-first century?
Abstract:
Innovation is crucial for development. Addressing twenty-first century
developmental challenges requires innovative processes and products, which
help in reducing and/or eliminating the gap between rich and poor in the
society. Such innovations can meet basic needs of low- and middle-income
groups in developing countries, providing them with capabilities to
function. The aim of this paper is to answer the question of how inclusive
(of people and places) innovation and development can be in the
twenty-first century. The paper therefore reviews new models of innovation
for development, including 'frugal' and 'grassroots' or 'below the radar'
innovation models. The argument put forward is that their inclusiveness
depends not only on their diffusion to the poor but also on their
generation according to principles of participation and equity derived
from contemporary theories of global justice. These are conditions with
direct impact on meeting the poor's basic needs and increasing their
capabilities to function.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 187-202
Issue: 2
Volume: 4
Year: 2014
Month: 10
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Author-X-Name-First: J.J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Voeten
Author-Name: W.A. Naud�
Author-X-Name-First: W.A.
Author-X-Name-Last: Naud�
Title: Regulating the negative externalities of enterprise cluster innovations: lessons from Vietnam
Abstract:
Innovation has been acknowledged as contributing to development, in
particularly inclusive innovations that involve and benefit poorer groups
in developing countries. However, such innovations may have negative
externalities. Most often external regulation is required to reduce these
effects. However, it is often not enough, and in many developing countries
the required institutional context is not present to enable external
regulation. Hence, a case may be made for internal regulation of inclusive
innovation. Helping to fill the gap in our knowledge on internal
regulation of innovation externalities in developing countries, we explore
four cases of innovation in informally organized small producers' clusters
Vietnam. From this we propose a model of internal regulation as a societal
process.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 203-219
Issue: 2
Volume: 4
Year: 2014
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2014.921356
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Author-Name: Christopher Foster
Author-X-Name-First: Christopher
Author-X-Name-Last: Foster
Author-Name: Richard Heeks
Author-X-Name-First: Richard
Author-X-Name-Last: Heeks
Title: Nurturing user-producer interaction: inclusive innovation flows in a low-income mobile phone market
Abstract:
Understandings of inclusive innovation in developing country low-income
markets have typically taken one of two perspectives. On the one hand, a
business perspective on the role of top-down, strategic innovation from
larger-firm actors. And on the other hand, a more developmental
perspective that highlights the role localized practices play in making
new goods and services applicable to local needs. Both are demonstrably
important to successful inclusive innovation but, to date, there has been
little analysis of the link between these two perspectives. The goal of
this paper is to explore the interaction between top-down and localized
elements of innovation, and to provide an understanding of the conditions
by which these two perspectives might be complementary. Drawing on the
case of the mobile phone sector in Kenya, and adapting Lundvall's concept
of user-producer interaction, a conceptual model to understand such
innovation flows is outlined. This highlights the centrality of
operational links between producers and users which serve as a medium for
interactive learning.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 221-237
Issue: 2
Volume: 4
Year: 2014
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2014.921353
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Author-Name: Kees Swaans
Author-X-Name-First: Kees
Author-X-Name-Last: Swaans
Author-Name: Birgit Boogaard
Author-X-Name-First: Birgit
Author-X-Name-Last: Boogaard
Author-Name: Ramkumar Bendapudi
Author-X-Name-First: Ramkumar
Author-X-Name-Last: Bendapudi
Author-Name: Hailemichael Taye
Author-X-Name-First: Hailemichael
Author-X-Name-Last: Taye
Author-Name: Saskia Hendrickx
Author-X-Name-First: Saskia
Author-X-Name-Last: Hendrickx
Author-Name: Laurens Klerkx
Author-X-Name-First: Laurens
Author-X-Name-Last: Klerkx
Title: Operationalizing inclusive innovation: lessons from innovation platforms in livestock value chains in India and Mozambique
Abstract:
Various authors have identified the potential relevance of innovation
system approaches for inclusive innovation, that is, the means by which
new goods and services are developed for and by the poor. However, it is
still a question how best to operationalize this. Innovation platforms
(IPs) represent an example of putting an inclusive innovation system
approach into practice by bringing different types of stakeholders
together to address issues of mutual concern and interest with a specific
focus on the marginalized poor. This paper explores the formation and
functioning of IPs with the aim of providing lessons on the conditions and
factors that play a role in making them effective. The study shows the
importance of social organization, representation, and incentives to
ensure a 'true' participatory innovation process, which is based on demand
and embedded in the context. Critical to this is a flexible planning
process stimulating incremental change through so-called innovation
bundles (i.e. combinations of technological, organizational, and
institutional innovations) and reflexive learning (systematically
challenging constraining factors). Furthermore, local institutions
embedded in norms and values are crucial to understand people's decisions.
Due to weak linkages between value chain actors, innovation brokers have a
vital role in facilitating the innovation process. Overall, IPs are a
promising model for inclusive innovation, but they require a careful
assessment of and adjustment to the institutional context.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 239-257
Issue: 2
Volume: 4
Year: 2014
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2014.925246
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Author-Name: Beth Cullen
Author-X-Name-First: Beth
Author-X-Name-Last: Cullen
Author-Name: Josephine Tucker
Author-X-Name-First: Josephine
Author-X-Name-Last: Tucker
Author-Name: Katherine Snyder
Author-X-Name-First: Katherine
Author-X-Name-Last: Snyder
Author-Name: Zelalem Lema
Author-X-Name-First: Zelalem
Author-X-Name-Last: Lema
Author-Name: Alan Duncan
Author-X-Name-First: Alan
Author-X-Name-Last: Duncan
Title: An analysis of power dynamics within innovation platforms for natural resource management
Abstract:
Innovation systems thinking is increasingly influencing approaches to
sustainable agricultural development in developing world contexts. This
represents a shift away from technology transfer towards recognition that
agricultural change entails complex interactions among multiple actors and
a range of technical, social and institutional factors. One option for
practically applying innovation systems thinking involves the
establishment of innovation platforms (IPs). Such platforms are designed
to bring together a variety of different stakeholders to exchange
knowledge and resources and take action to solve common problems. Yet
relatively little is known about how IPs operate in practice, particularly
how power dynamics influence platform processes. This paper focuses on a
research-for-development project in the Ethiopian highlands which
established three IPs for improved natural resource management. The 'power
cube' is used to retrospectively analyse the spaces, forms and levels of
power within these platforms and the impact on platform processes and
resulting interventions. The overall aim is to highlight the importance of
power issues in order to better assess the strengths and limitations of
IPs as a model for inclusive innovation. Findings suggest that while IPs
may achieve some short-term success in creating spaces for wider
participation in decision-making processes, they may be significantly
influenced by forms of power which may not always be visible or easily
challenged.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 259-275
Issue: 2
Volume: 4
Year: 2014
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2014.921274
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Author-Name: Mariano Fressoli
Author-X-Name-First: Mariano
Author-X-Name-Last: Fressoli
Author-Name: Elisa Arond
Author-X-Name-First: Elisa
Author-X-Name-Last: Arond
Author-Name: Dinesh Abrol
Author-X-Name-First: Dinesh
Author-X-Name-Last: Abrol
Author-Name: Adrian Smith
Author-X-Name-First: Adrian
Author-X-Name-Last: Smith
Author-Name: Adrian Ely
Author-X-Name-First: Adrian
Author-X-Name-Last: Ely
Author-Name: Rafael Dias
Author-X-Name-First: Rafael
Author-X-Name-Last: Dias
Title: When grassroots innovation movements encounter mainstream institutions: implications for models of inclusive innovation
Abstract:
Grassroots innovation movements (GIMs) can be regarded as initiators or
advocates of alternative pathways of innovation. Sometimes these movements
engage with more established science, technology and innovation (STI)
institutions and development agencies in pursuit of their goals. In this
paper, we argue that an important aspect to encounters between GIMs and
mainstream STI institutions is the negotiation of different framings of
grassroots innovation and development of policy models for inclusive
innovation. These encounters can result in two different modes of
engagement by GIMs; what we call insertion and
mobilization. We illustrate and discuss these
interrelated notions of framings and modes of engagement by drawing on
three case studies of GIMs: the Social Technologies Network in Brazil, and
the Honey Bee Network and People's Science Movements in India. The cases
highlight that inclusion in the context of GIMs is not an unproblematic,
smooth endeavour, and involves diverse interpretations and framings, which
shape what and who gets included or excluded. Within the context of
increasing policy interest, the analysis of encounters between GIMs and
STI institutions can offer important lessons for the design of models of
inclusive innovation and development.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 277-292
Issue: 2
Volume: 4
Year: 2014
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2014.921354
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Author-Name: Keyvan Alvandi
Author-X-Name-First: Keyvan
Author-X-Name-Last: Alvandi
Author-Name: Cristina Chaminade
Author-X-Name-First: Cristina
Author-X-Name-Last: Chaminade
Author-Name: Ping Lv
Author-X-Name-First: Ping
Author-X-Name-Last: Lv
Title: Commonalities and differences between production-related foreign direct investment and technology-related foreign direct investment in developed and emerging economies
Abstract:
This paper investigates commonalities and differences in firm-level
determinants of internationalization of production (production-related
investments or PFDI) and innovation (technology-driven investments or
TFDI) by multinational enterprises. Our database is based on a
cross-country survey which includes firms within Automotive,
Agro-processing, and Information and Communication Technology sectors from
both developing and advanced economies. Our results show that despite some
differences, most of the determinants affect in a similar manner both the
PFDI and TFDI which rather contradicts recent arguments claiming
significant differences between the two. More interestingly, however, we
found that institutional determinants such as policies related to foreign
direct investments play almost no role in internationalization process of
firms while managerial (internal to the firm) determinants had a far
greater impact.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 293-311
Issue: 2
Volume: 4
Year: 2014
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2014.923615
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Author-Name: Shakespear Mudombi
Author-X-Name-First: Shakespear
Author-X-Name-Last: Mudombi
Author-Name: Mammo Muchie
Author-X-Name-First: Mammo
Author-X-Name-Last: Muchie
Title: An institutional perspective to challenges undermining innovation activities in Africa
Abstract:
Innovation is of paramount importance if Africa is to achieve sustained
economic growth, development, and improved welfare of its people. In this
context, the paper argues that institutional factors, despite their
importance in shaping innovation on the continent, have received less
attention. The paper is based on literature review and uses an
institutional analysis framework to explore how institutional factors
influence innovation activities. Institutions are the rules of the game -
they determine if the game is played, how the game is played, who plays
the game, and with what constraints. Currently, the institutions are not
fair both at the national and international levels. The institutional
set-up is not favourable for any meaningful innovation. Therefore, African
governments should aim to create and promote strong and effective
(enforceable) institutions at the national and continental levels. In
addition, they should aim to have the international institutional set-up
favourable to ensure its competitiveness.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 313-326
Issue: 2
Volume: 4
Year: 2014
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2014.921272
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Author-Name: Allan Dahl Andersen
Author-X-Name-First: Allan Dahl
Author-X-Name-Last: Andersen
Title: A functions approach to innovation system building in the South: the pre-Pro�lcool evolution of the sugarcane and biofuel sector in Brazil
Abstract:
This paper applies a technological innovation system (TIS) approach to
study how and under which circumstances the sugarcane and biofuel
innovation system (SUBIS) emerged and grew in Brazil in the period
1900-1973. The paper advances our understanding of innovation system (IS)
building in the South in three ways. First, it illustrates how sectoral IS
formation can be understood by using the TIS framework. Second, it
highlights key mechanisms in the formation of TIS. Third, it illustrates
that the TIS approach must further emphasize the demand for new knowledge
in order to be adapted to the South. In addition, the paper demonstrates
how many decades of IS building was central to the subsequent success of
the Brazilian National Alcohol Program.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 1-21
Issue: 1
Volume: 5
Year: 2015
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2014.996855
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Author-Name: Sudip Chaudhuri
Author-X-Name-First: Sudip
Author-X-Name-Last: Chaudhuri
Author-Name: Alastair West
Author-X-Name-First: Alastair
Author-X-Name-Last: West
Title: Can local producers compete with low-cost imports? A simulation study of pharmaceutical industry in low-income Africa
Abstract:
The industrial policy objective of promoting local production of
pharmaceuticals for stimulating economic growth is increasingly
appreciated by African governments and internationally. However, questions
are widely raised by health policy-makers concerning the ability of
Africa-based producers to compete on price with Indian and Chinese imports
and, hence, to sustain access to essential medicines for low-income
populations. Data are lacking to test this influential critique. This
paper uses an innovative methodology to overcome the difficulties of data
access within African contexts. The analysis strongly suggests that
despite higher costs than Indian producers, pharmaceutical industries in
small underdeveloped countries necessarily imply neither higher prices nor
unviable production operations. By ensuring sufficient market access for
local producers, governments (and by extension Regional Economic
Communities) in low-income Africa can promote viable local production
without sacrificing the objective of affordability and accessibility.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 23-38
Issue: 1
Volume: 5
Year: 2015
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2014.921273
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Author-Name: Andrea Filippetti
Author-X-Name-First: Andrea
Author-X-Name-Last: Filippetti
Author-Name: Antonio Peyrache
Author-X-Name-First: Antonio
Author-X-Name-Last: Peyrache
Title: Technology or investment? An enquiry into the Chinese model of growth at the region level
Abstract:
This paper explores the relative contribution of different components to
labour productivity growth - for example, the role of capital investment
versus increase in technical change - in 31 Chinese provinces over the
period 2000-2010. It then investigates the connection between technical
change and inflows of foreign direct investment (FDI). The results reveal
that capital deepening - that is, investment in fixed capital - has been
the most prominent source of labour productivity growth mainly in poorer
provinces, while richer provinces have benefitted mostly from increase in
technical change. Inflows of FDI are not associated with higher rates of
productivity growth. Our results have implications for the sustainability
of the current model of growth in China and the patterns of technological
development.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 39-58
Issue: 1
Volume: 5
Year: 2015
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2014.1003449
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Author-Name: Renato Garcia
Author-X-Name-First: Renato
Author-X-Name-Last: Garcia
Author-Name: Veneziano Araujo
Author-X-Name-First: Veneziano
Author-X-Name-Last: Araujo
Author-Name: Suelene Mascarini
Author-X-Name-First: Suelene
Author-X-Name-Last: Mascarini
Author-Name: Emerson Gomes dos Santos
Author-X-Name-First: Emerson
Author-X-Name-Last: Gomes dos Santos
Author-Name: Ariana Costa
Author-X-Name-First: Ariana
Author-X-Name-Last: Costa
Title: An analysis of the effects of the characteristics of research groups on their interactions with firms
Abstract:
The main aim of this paper is to analyse how the characteristics of
academic research groups affect their interactions with firms. Using data
from a survey conducted in Brazilian research groups, an empirical model
was estimated to evaluate how the characteristics of the research groups
impact their interactions with firms. Main results show that research
groups with higher academic performance, larger research groups and groups
affiliated with larger departments tend to present higher numbers of
interactions. Furthermore, engineering and agricultural sciences research
groups interact more. Given these findings, the main contribution of the
paper is that it furthers understanding of the factors that shape
university-industry linkages and how characteristics of research groups
affect interactions.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 59-72
Issue: 1
Volume: 5
Year: 2015
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2014.921271
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Author-Name: Laurens Klerkx
Author-X-Name-First: Laurens
Author-X-Name-Last: Klerkx
Author-Name: Roberto �lvarez
Author-X-Name-First: Roberto
Author-X-Name-Last: �lvarez
Author-Name: Rolando Campusano
Author-X-Name-First: Rolando
Author-X-Name-Last: Campusano
Title: The emergence and functioning of innovation intermediaries in maturing innovation systems: the case of Chile
Abstract:
Innovation intermediaries that build linkages in innovation systems are
reportedly needed in many Latin American countries and other developing
and emerging countries around the world that are said to have an immature
innovation system. This study analyses the types of innovation
intermediaries that have emerged in Chile, and how these have contributed
to the development of a more mature innovation system. The findings
indicate that a great diversity of innovation intermediaries has emerged
and that this has helped induce a shift towards more networked or open
innovation processes. They have not, however, completely altered the
relationships in the Chilean innovation system, but rather helped actors
to better navigate the current system. They have been able to obtain a
legitimate position but experience tensions in relation to how clients
understand their role. These intermediaries have emerged in the context of
a policy discourse emphasizing networked or open innovation, but clearer
support policies and coordination of the innovation intermediary field
could enhance their functioning and contribution. The broader implication
relevant for developing and emerging countries is that building more
mature innovation systems and making them function coherently calls for
fostering an innovation intermediary subsystem in the national innovation
system covering all the different integration levels in the system
(national, regional, sectoral).
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 73-91
Issue: 1
Volume: 5
Year: 2015
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2014.921268
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Author-Name: Hannu Littunen
Author-X-Name-First: Hannu
Author-X-Name-Last: Littunen
Author-Name: Sari Rissanen
Author-X-Name-First: Sari
Author-X-Name-Last: Rissanen
Title: Information sources and innovation-linked networking: relations to health and social service enterprises' performance in Finland
Abstract:
Innovation, information sources and networking influence organizations'
performance. Previously, related services have been mostly publicly
provided in the health and social sector, at least in some countries, but
privatization is advocated as a means to improve innovation and
performance in the sector. However, there are uncertainties regarding the
relationships involved, particularly in Finland. Thus, this study examines
the information sources and networking used to innovate products and
services provided by Finnish health and social service firms, using
questionnaire responses of 668 entrepreneurs. The relationship between
product/service innovations and firms' performance is also addressed. The
results indicate that novel product/service innovations are closely
associated with freely accessible information sources such as exhibitions,
fairs, the internet and media; that regional support organizations and
collaborative partners are important information sources for innovative
health and social service enterprises; and that both growth and
profitability are related to firms' innovation in the sector.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 93-111
Issue: 1
Volume: 5
Year: 2015
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2014.994261
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Author-Name: Teemu Makkonen
Author-X-Name-First: Teemu
Author-X-Name-Last: Makkonen
Title: National innovation system capabilities among leader and follower countries: widening gaps or global convergence?
Abstract:
The concept of technological catch-up, as it refers to a situation where
some less-developed countries have been able to catch up to the world
leaders in terms of innovation, has inspired an abundant amount of
scholarly attention. However, studies comprehensively focusing on factors
considered important for innovation in the literature on national
innovation systems (NISs) are rare. This gap is addressed here through a
systematic analysis of the different dimensions of NISs. Despite some
positive signs, the global differences are growing, that is, the gaps
between the best and the weakest performers are widening. Still, whereas
on a global scale convergence is far from being the reality, the analysis
was able to indicate a group of countries that have been able to catch up
to the 'best in class' countries. Accordingly, there seems to be a clear
association between NIS capabilities and the levels of economic
development of countries.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 113-129
Issue: 1
Volume: 5
Year: 2015
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2014.992818
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Author-Name: Dilupa Nakandala
Author-X-Name-First: Dilupa
Author-X-Name-Last: Nakandala
Author-Name: Tim Turpin
Author-X-Name-First: Tim
Author-X-Name-Last: Turpin
Author-Name: Abdelkader Djeflat
Author-X-Name-First: Abdelkader
Author-X-Name-Last: Djeflat
Title: Parallel innovation policies to support firms with heterogeneous innovation capabilities in developing economies
Abstract:
Recent research in understanding innovation policy practice in developing
economies has revealed the need for different analytical perspectives. In
considering the parallel presence of firms with highly diverse levels of
innovation capabilities in developing economies, policy-makers must be
keenly aware of the heterogeneous technological requirements of these
firms. An analysis of the national innovation system of Sri Lanka reveals
the presence of science-driven innovation policies which tend to benefit
the firms that engage in in-house knowledge creation activities but only
weakly support those engaged in strategic external technology acquisitions
as a means of gaining a competitive edge. Taking this firm-centred view
when considering developing economies such as Sri Lanka, we propose a
pluralistic approach that takes account of internally created knowledge,
externally sourced knowledge and firm heterogeneity for efficient
innovation-based development. The implications for policy-makers in
developing economies are on the need of different parallel systems and
selective approaches that cater to the diverse technological requirements
of local innovation actors to promote, nurture and create the desired
technological change through optimal utilization of existing resources.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 131-145
Issue: 1
Volume: 5
Year: 2015
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2014.980552
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Author-Name: Sumanjeet Singh
Author-X-Name-First: Sumanjeet
Author-X-Name-Last: Singh
Title: Innovation, intellectual property rights and competition policy
Abstract:
The intersection of intellectual property rights (IPRs) and competition
laws is one of the most complex areas of law and economics. IPRs, which
are generally considered necessary to promote innovation, could create
monopolies while competition law battles monopolies. How do the two
policies interact? Is there a balance or a conflict? In this light, the
present paper revisits the relevant economic literature. Further, the
paper examines the experiences from several countries in grappling with
the problems of reconciling IPRs and competition policies. The paper
concludes that the conflict between the two regimes can possibly be
restrained if competition agencies are constricted either by judiciary or
professional norms, or by means of administrative policy from seeking to
fine tune the IPR protection.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 147-164
Issue: 1
Volume: 5
Year: 2015
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2014.1003450
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Author-Name: Hasanuzzaman Zaman
Author-X-Name-First: Hasanuzzaman
Author-X-Name-Last: Zaman
Title: Service delivery process innovation: insights from Digital Bangladesh
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 165-168
Issue: 1
Volume: 5
Year: 2015
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2015.1009698
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Author-Name: Abiodun Egbetokun
Author-X-Name-First: Abiodun
Author-X-Name-Last: Egbetokun
Title: Cooperation resources, absorptive capacity and firm-level innovation
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 169-169
Issue: 1
Volume: 5
Year: 2015
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2015.1007568
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Author-Name: Jos� Miguel Natera
Author-X-Name-First: Jos� Miguel
Author-X-Name-Last: Natera
Title: The dynamics of national innovation systems: an empirical approach to economic growth and development
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 169-170
Issue: 1
Volume: 5
Year: 2015
Month: 4
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Author-Name: Anant Kamath
Author-X-Name-First: Anant
Author-X-Name-Last: Kamath
Title: Information sharing through informal interaction in low-tech clusters
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 170-171
Issue: 1
Volume: 5
Year: 2015
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2015.1007570
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Author-Name: Xiao S. Niu
Author-X-Name-First: Xiao S.
Author-X-Name-Last: Niu
Title: Dispersed knowledge networks and their implications for national innovation systems: an investigation of Australia and China's scientific relationships
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 171-172
Issue: 1
Volume: 5
Year: 2015
Month: 4
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Author-Name: Rasmus Lema
Author-X-Name-First: Rasmus
Author-X-Name-Last: Lema
Author-Name: Michiko Iizuka
Author-X-Name-First: Michiko
Author-X-Name-Last: Iizuka
Author-Name: Rainer Walz
Author-X-Name-First: Rainer
Author-X-Name-Last: Walz
Title: Introduction to low-carbon innovation and development: insights and future challenges for research
Abstract:
This special issue seeks to bring together the fields of low-carbon
development (LCD) and innovation studies. It contributes to the debate by
addressing how the learning, innovation, and competence-building lens adds
to the discussion about the development outcomes of climate change
mitigation. The aim of this introductory article is fourfold. First, it
discusses key advances in the debate about the role of innovation and
competence building in LCD in developing countries. Second, it seeks to
add to the debate by paying particular attention to the heterogeneity of
developing countries in terms of the context and innovative capacity for
LCD. Third, it addresses the challenges to policy arising from such
differentiated starting points. Finally, it sets forth the insights from
the articles in this issue and the implications for future research.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 173-187
Issue: 2
Volume: 5
Year: 2015
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2015.1065096
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Author-Name: Jacinta Ndichu
Author-X-Name-First: Jacinta
Author-X-Name-Last: Ndichu
Author-Name: Julian Blohmke
Author-X-Name-First: Julian
Author-X-Name-Last: Blohmke
Author-Name: Ren� Kemp
Author-X-Name-First: Ren�
Author-X-Name-Last: Kemp
Author-Name: John Adeoti
Author-X-Name-First: John
Author-X-Name-Last: Adeoti
Author-Name: Abiodun Elijah Obayelu
Author-X-Name-First: Abiodun Elijah
Author-X-Name-Last: Obayelu
Title: The adoption of energy efficiency measures by firms in Africa: case studies of cassava processing in Nigeria and maize milling in Kenya
Abstract:
This study investigates the uptake of energy efficiency (EE) measures in
two important agro-industrial sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa, the cassava-
and maize-processing industries in Nigeria and Kenya. These two countries
represent regions with a weak environmental policy regime and rather weak
innovation systems. An empirical investigation of problems associated with
the adoption of energy efficiency measures and the responses of African
actors and foreign suppliers to such problems is presented. The overall
conclusions are that such measures are mainly undertaken for economic
reasons of cost-efficiency, that few firms in the agro-industries studied
have adopted sophisticated measures of energy saving, that many
encountered problems, that there is a great reliance on foreign suppliers
of EE technologies in the case of maize millers but less so in the case of
cassava processing, that informal mechanisms of learning are an important
source of learning, and that universities and public research institutes
come out as relatively unimportant sources of knowledge. In the cassava
sector, complex technological equipment is commonly supplied as part of
package involving training and financial advice, with an important role
being played by consultants and external advisors.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 189-206
Issue: 2
Volume: 5
Year: 2015
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2015.1057980
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Author-Name: Benard O. Muok
Author-X-Name-First: Benard O.
Author-X-Name-Last: Muok
Author-Name: Ann Kingiri
Author-X-Name-First: Ann
Author-X-Name-Last: Kingiri
Title: The role of civil society organizations in low-carbon innovation in Kenya
Abstract:
There has been growing interest in understanding innovation in developing
countries. This is in recognition of the fact that low- and middle-income
economies typically have 'developing' innovation systems characterized by
relatively weak institutions and fragmented actor constellations that
restrain interactive learning. The current innovation systems literature
tends to overestimate the role of governments as agents of resource
allocation while underestimating the importance of civil society in
improving basic institutions of the market economy. This literature tends
to overlook the particularly important role of non-governmental actors,
such as grassroots civil societies in grassroots innovation. This paper
seeks to address two basic questions: How important is the role played by
civil society organizations in low-carbon innovation systems? What are the
specific roles and what challenges do they face in performing these roles?
The paper analyses the role of civil society through the lens of
low-carbon innovation. Empirical data were generated using both structured
and semi-structured questionnaires targeting innovators in a low-carbon
innovation country: Kenya. The paper shows that civil society plays a
crucial role in low-carbon innovation in terms of learning and
competence-building in Kenya. The study recommends major interventions in
terms of a policy framework to recognize and institutionalize civil
society as important players in innovation at the grassroots level.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 207-223
Issue: 2
Volume: 5
Year: 2015
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2015.1064558
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Author-Name: Georgeta Vidican
Author-X-Name-First: Georgeta
Author-X-Name-Last: Vidican
Title: The emergence of a solar energy innovation system in Morocco: a governance perspective
Abstract:
Taking the case of Morocco, this paper aims to explore the challenges to
system-building initiatives for the development of the solar energy
sector. Drawing on innovation systems (ISs) literature, I examine factors
that contribute to the emergence of a solar energy sector and delve into
how complex governance dynamics affect such developments in Morocco. Aside
from low capabilities and knowledge on solar energy technologies, a key
challenge to the development of an IS in Morocco is the lack of a
strategic approach that not only engages all relevant stakeholders but
also integrates diverse objectives. The role played by the state (and its
supported institutions) in the society and its participation in the
economy is likely to explain why these processes are slow to prevail.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 225-240
Issue: 2
Volume: 5
Year: 2015
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2015.1049852
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Author-Name: Michiko Iizuka
Author-X-Name-First: Michiko
Author-X-Name-Last: Iizuka
Title: Diverse and uneven pathways towards transition to low carbon development: the case of solar PV technology in China
Abstract:
Transition towards low carbon development is an urgent challenge for the
global community. As increased economic activities usually result in more
carbon emissions, the transition process is particularly critical for
rapidly growing emerging economies. This paper reviews the literature that
deals with sustainable transition, in particular the multilevel
perspective framework, to identify challenges specific to developing
countries. After reviewing the literature, the paper looks at the case of
Chinese solar photovoltaic technology to link the conceptual discussion
with a practical example.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 241-261
Issue: 2
Volume: 5
Year: 2015
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2015.1049850
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Author-Name: Andr� Tosi Furtado
Author-X-Name-First: Andr� Tosi
Author-X-Name-Last: Furtado
Author-Name: Radhika Perrot
Author-X-Name-First: Radhika
Author-X-Name-Last: Perrot
Title: Innovation dynamics of the wind energy industry in South Africa and Brazil: technological and institutional lock-ins
Abstract:
This paper explores the conditions of path dependencies and technological
lock-ins in the transition to low-carbon technologies such as renewable
energy technologies. Both industrialized and emerging economies have been
locked into fossil-fuel-based energy systems through a long process of
technological and institutional evolution that create systemic market and
policy barriers in the uptake of renewable energy technologies. We
identify systemic features, that are in fact competitive advantages, such
as entrepreneurial experimentation, formation of markets, knowledge
development and diffusion, and influence in the direction of search that
are critical in overcoming technological and institutional lock-ins, and
in eventually driving the transition to low-carbon energy technologies.
The two countries analysed here, South Africa and Brazil, have been locked
into coal and hydropower technologies, respectively, for many decades,
making the current transition to wind energy difficult. Using literature
on technological innovation systems and on technological and carbon
lock-ins, this paper analyses the systemic features in the two countries
that have been identified to either block or induce the transition to wind
energy industries.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 263-278
Issue: 2
Volume: 5
Year: 2015
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2015.1057978
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Author-Name: Allan Dahl Andersen
Author-X-Name-First: Allan Dahl
Author-X-Name-Last: Andersen
Author-Name: Bj�rn Johnson
Author-X-Name-First: Bj�rn
Author-X-Name-Last: Johnson
Title: Low-carbon development and inclusive innovation systems
Abstract:
Low-carbon development (LCD) is a process of structural change of
unprecedented magnitude that includes radical changes in technology,
institutions, values and policies. It has been proposed that inclusive
institutions are crucial for enabling structural change by facilitating
different processes of creative destruction. There are reasons to believe
that inclusion is also crucial for achieving LCD. We explore why and how
social inclusion may support LCD. In so doing, we bridge a gap between
research on social inclusion and innovation, on the one hand, and LCD, on
the other. We combine the ideas of systems of innovation and inclusive
institutions to propose a new conceptualization of inclusive innovation
systems, and we propose six mechanisms through which inclusion enables
development. We conclude that the world must attempt to establish an
inclusive and low-carbon system of innovation at the global level to
achieve LCD.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 279-296
Issue: 2
Volume: 5
Year: 2015
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2015.1049849
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Author-Name: Alexandra Mallett
Author-X-Name-First: Alexandra
Author-X-Name-Last: Mallett
Title: Recasting 'truisms' of low carbon technology cooperation through innovation systems: insights from the developing world
Abstract:
A key challenge of approaches to low carbon technology
transfer/cooperation is that too much attention is placed on outcomes,
neglecting technology cooperation processes. An innovation systems (IS)
analytical lens can help to understand dimensions of what makes low carbon
technology cooperation more effective, as IS emphasizes the importance of
these technology processes. In developing countries, IS analysis tends to
focus on activities of firms, the public sector and universities (also
coined the triple helix) aimed at improving the quality of 'hardware'
while lowering the costs of production. While important, these aspects
constitute partial segments of IS. This paper therefore advances the
concept of IS within developing countries in the following ways. This
paper questions the assumption that these IS are absent and that
producer-user interaction is weak, through unpacking the notion regarding
who is innovating and what is low carbon innovation. In doing so, we
capture the roles of alternative actors (e.g. lay people versus only
experts), and activities and products (e.g. 'improvised' goods and
processes versus frontier, or second-tier, technologies) within these
systems.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 297-311
Issue: 2
Volume: 5
Year: 2015
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2015.1049851
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Author-Name: Adedamola D. Adeyeye
Author-X-Name-First: Adedamola D.
Author-X-Name-Last: Adeyeye
Author-Name: Oluseye O. Jegede
Author-X-Name-First: Oluseye O.
Author-X-Name-Last: Jegede
Author-Name: Adekemi J. Oluwadare
Author-X-Name-First: Adekemi J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Oluwadare
Author-Name: Folake S. Aremu
Author-X-Name-First: Folake S.
Author-X-Name-Last: Aremu
Title: Micro-level determinants of innovation: analysis of the Nigerian manufacturing sector
Abstract:
This paper uses the binary logistic regression to test two hypotheses
among manufacturing firms in Nigeria. First, the influence of
firms’ innovation activities on the propensity to implement
innovations and second, whether size influences the type of innovation
implemented by firms. Using the data from the Nigerian Innovation Survey
2008, the results show that intramural R&D influences firms’
likelihood of implementing all the four innovation types being
statistically significant at 0.05 level. In addition, investment in
machinery and equipment specifically increases firms’ likelihood of
introducing product innovation. Similarly, market introduction of
innovations impacts on marketing innovation. The binary regression result
however shows that the size of manufacturing firms in Nigeria does not
significantly influence the introduction of any type of innovation.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 1-14
Issue: 1
Volume: 6
Year: 2016
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2015.1047110
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Author-Name: Paul Braund
Author-X-Name-First: Paul
Author-X-Name-Last: Braund
Author-Name: Anke Schwittay
Author-X-Name-First: Anke
Author-X-Name-Last: Schwittay
Title: Scaling inclusive digital innovation successfully: the case of crowdfunding social enterprises
Abstract:
There is a growing interest in how organizations and initiatives that
innovate to use information and communication technologies for development
(ICTD) can scale their operations, reach and impact. This article takes a
systemic and socio-technical approach to analyse the successful scaling of
a crowdfunding social enterprise. It traces the growth of the
‘innofusion’ network of the world's first person-to-person
microlending platform, with particular emphasis on practices of balancing
along three dimensions: (1) the need for standardization to manage
expansion across highly diverse geographical contexts and for adaptation,
customization and diversification to produce locally meaningful impact;
(2) online and offline strategies and (3) business and social aspects of
the organization. Processes of techno-financial scaling made possible by
organizational and technological innovation at the social enterprise,
which is embedded in the San Francisco Bay Area's techno-entrepreneurial
milieu, also enabled financial innovation among platform partners in
developing countries.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 15-29
Issue: 1
Volume: 6
Year: 2016
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2015.1067392
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Author-Name: Catari Vilela Chaves
Author-X-Name-First: Catari Vilela
Author-X-Name-Last: Chaves
Author-Name: Márcia Siqueira Rapini
Author-X-Name-First: Márcia Siqueira
Author-X-Name-Last: Rapini
Author-Name: Wilson Suzigan
Author-X-Name-First: Wilson
Author-X-Name-Last: Suzigan
Author-Name: Ana Cristina de A. Fernandes
Author-X-Name-First: Ana Cristina
Author-X-Name-Last: de A. Fernandes
Author-Name: Edson Domingues
Author-X-Name-First: Edson
Author-X-Name-Last: Domingues
Author-Name: Soraia Schultz Martins Carvalho
Author-X-Name-First: Soraia Schultz
Author-X-Name-Last: Martins Carvalho
Title: The contribution of universities and research institutes to Brazilian innovation system
Abstract:
This paper aims to investigate interactions among universities, research
institutes and firms in the innovation system. The study is based on a
primary survey of 1005 research group leaders from universities and
research institutes who declared that they interact with firms. Three
issues from the questionnaire were explored: the types of interactions,
the channels of information and the outcomes of the interactions. A logit
model was estimated to analyse the interactive behaviour. The study
observed that R&D (research and development), short-term collaborative
projects and consulting, which constitute the types of interaction, and
publications, that constitute the channels of information, have important
influence on the new research projects, which are results of the
interactions.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 31-50
Issue: 1
Volume: 6
Year: 2016
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2015.1056401
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Author-Name: Robert Dalitz
Author-X-Name-First: Robert
Author-X-Name-Last: Dalitz
Author-Name: Phillip Toner
Author-X-Name-First: Phillip
Author-X-Name-Last: Toner
Title: Systems failure, market failure, or something else? The case of skills development in Australian innovation policy
Abstract:
Many innovation theorists assume innovation policy-making is driven by the
theoretical apparatus of market failure and argue the superiority of the
systems failure approach. We look at the inclusion of skills development
in Australian innovation policy to assess what drives innovation policy.
This is done by examining the inclusion of vocational education and
training (VET) in major analyses and reports on Australia's innovation
system and membership of the boards of innovation councils. We found that
both of the major Australian political parties and the major reports on
Australia's National Innovation System (NIS) present skills development as
a principal driver of the NIS -- indicating a clear market/system failure
concern. Notwithstanding this, we found the VET system is excluded in both
government studies of Australia's NIS and innovation councils. This
indicates the drivers of innovation policy may not be market failure or
system failure. Contrary to the presumption of innovation academics,
policy may well be extremely path dependent and subject to what is in the
department's purview in each policy domain. There is a clear caution to
developing countries in following the innovation policies of developed
nations such as Australia that ignoring vocational skills development is
risky without a fully developed VET system. In fact, it is possible that
vocational skills lie at the core of development in less developed
countries and so following Australia's approach could be
counterproductive.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 51-66
Issue: 1
Volume: 6
Year: 2016
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2015.1084116
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Author-Name: Abdelkader Djeflat
Author-X-Name-First: Abdelkader
Author-X-Name-Last: Djeflat
Author-Name: Bengt Åke Lundvall
Author-X-Name-First: Bengt Åke
Author-X-Name-Last: Lundvall
Title: The resource curse and the limited transformative capacity of natural resource-based economies in Africa: evidence from the oil and gas sector in Algeria and implications for innovation policy
Abstract:
The strong growth and export performance in Africa for the last decade
were largely due to higher international commodity prices and did not
translate into the broad-based economic and social development needed to
reduce poverty and create jobs for the underemployed. In this paper, we
assume that this pattern of development can be explained by the weak
nature and narrowness of the learning process that developed in relation
to natural resource sectors. Lateral migration of knowledge from the
natural resource-based sectors remains scarce in Africa. The paper
examines the oil and gas sector in Algeria using the case of the oil giant
producer Sonatrach. It shows that knowledge migration benefited internal
capacity building and core downstream activities to a certain extent. The
capacity of the dominant sector and company to contribute to competence
building and innovation in general and specifically in manufacturing
activities was, however, very limited and Algeria and, as many other
African countries, remains overly dependent on the production and export
of oil and gas.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 67-85
Issue: 1
Volume: 6
Year: 2016
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2015.1121564
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Author-Name: Abiodun Egbetokun
Author-X-Name-First: Abiodun
Author-X-Name-Last: Egbetokun
Author-Name: Pedro Mendi
Author-X-Name-First: Pedro
Author-X-Name-Last: Mendi
Author-Name: Robert Mudida
Author-X-Name-First: Robert
Author-X-Name-Last: Mudida
Title: Complementarity in firm-level innovation strategies: a comparative study of Kenya and Nigeria
Abstract:
We present and analyse firm-level innovation data from Kenya and Nigeria.
We test for the existence of complementarities between internal R&D and
external innovation activities, and between organizational and marketing
innovations. Some evidence is found on the existence of complementarities
between internal and external technological innovation strategies in the
case of Kenya, but not in the case of Nigeria. However, organizational and
marketing innovations do not appear to be complementary in innovation
either in Kenya or in Nigeria.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 87-101
Issue: 1
Volume: 6
Year: 2016
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2015.1085185
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Author-Name: Jan Peuckert
Author-X-Name-First: Jan
Author-X-Name-Last: Peuckert
Author-Name: Miriam Bodenheimer
Author-X-Name-First: Miriam
Author-X-Name-Last: Bodenheimer
Author-Name: Carsten Gandenberger
Author-X-Name-First: Carsten
Author-X-Name-Last: Gandenberger
Title: The role of international trade for the global build-up of innovation capabilities in the wind industry
Abstract:
The global combat on climate change requires that developing countries not
only get access to advanced technical equipment, but also rapidly build-up
indigenous innovation capabilities for low-carbon technologies. The goal
of this paper is to assess the role of international trade as a channel of
knowledge diffusion in the wind industry from technologically advanced
countries to their trading partners. Using patents as a measure of
innovation in a cross-country time-series data analysis, we estimate the
effects of the volume and the structure of sector-specific imports on
domestic inventions in the wind-energy sector. The estimation results
indicate that international trade has contributed to the development of
globally distributed innovation capabilities in the wind industry, both
through the transfer of technologies embodied in advanced technical
equipment, but also through knowledge spillovers from the capabilities of
foreign trading partners.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 103-121
Issue: 1
Volume: 6
Year: 2016
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2015.1116965
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Author-Name: Madalitso Zililo Phiri
Author-X-Name-First: Madalitso Zililo
Author-X-Name-Last: Phiri
Author-Name: Neo Molotja
Author-X-Name-First: Neo
Author-X-Name-Last: Molotja
Author-Name: Hlamulo Makelane
Author-X-Name-First: Hlamulo
Author-X-Name-Last: Makelane
Author-Name: Takura Kupamupindi
Author-X-Name-First: Takura
Author-X-Name-Last: Kupamupindi
Author-Name: Catherine Ndinda
Author-X-Name-First: Catherine
Author-X-Name-Last: Ndinda
Title: Inclusive innovation and inequality in South Africa: a case for transformative social policy
Abstract:
South Africa's quest for inclusive innovation is encumbered by the triple
challenges of poverty, inequality and unemployment. Although the present
African National Congress government has made strides to promote inclusive
innovation, structural inequalities inherited from apartheid hinder the
creation of a new social contract. Social policy is today receiving
greater attention in the field of innovation and development. Much
emphasis is placed on the important issues of reproduction, redistribution
and social production. However, in the South African context the vital
concern of production needs to be considered. This article argues that
transformative social policy in South Africa enhances innovation through
its effects on human capital and skill formation and its capacity to
alleviate risk. This paper uses a transformative social policy approach in
contributing to discourse around inclusive innovation in South Africa and
the Global South.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 123-139
Issue: 1
Volume: 6
Year: 2016
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2015.1047112
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Author-Name: Anjali Tandon
Author-X-Name-First: Anjali
Author-X-Name-Last: Tandon
Author-Name: Shahid Ahmed
Author-X-Name-First: Shahid
Author-X-Name-Last: Ahmed
Title: Technological change and energy consumption in India: a decomposition analysis
Abstract:
Increasing demand for energy from its fast growing economy
notwithstanding, India is committed to reduce energy consumption on
account of the concerns for climate change. It is often held that growth
in energy demand could be moderated through autonomous changes in
production technology. This paper analyses the sector-wise changes in
production technology and its effect on the demand for direct and embodied
energy by using structural decomposition analysis in a constant price
hybrid Input--Output framework. Results support the hypothesis that
changes in production technology contribute significantly to reduce
additional energy requirements of the economy. The differences in
magnitude, direction and rate of change in production technology between
energy and non-energy inputs highlight their varying contributions to
energy savings. The significant efficiency impact of embodied consumption
in non-energy sectors highlights the scope of technological changes in
these sectors, which has a cascading effect in the production chain.
Therefore, the focus of policies shall be on lowering the consumption of
embodied energy.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 141-159
Issue: 1
Volume: 6
Year: 2016
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2015.1114565
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Author-Name: Otieno Osoro
Author-X-Name-First: Otieno
Author-X-Name-Last: Osoro
Author-Name: Patrick Vermeulen
Author-X-Name-First: Patrick
Author-X-Name-Last: Vermeulen
Author-Name: Joris Knoben
Author-X-Name-First: Joris
Author-X-Name-Last: Knoben
Author-Name: Godius Kahyarara
Author-X-Name-First: Godius
Author-X-Name-Last: Kahyarara
Title: Effect of knowledge sources on firm-level innovation in Tanzania
Abstract:
This paper analyses the impact of different sources of knowledge on product and process innovation in Tanzania using firm-level data. We specifically analyse the separate impacts of internal knowledge, external knowledge and the combined impact of both types of knowledge on firms’ product and process innovation decisions. The analysis reveals that the purchase of machinery, equipment or software, year of firm establishment, the sector a firm belongs to, and internal research and development impact on product and process innovation. Product innovation is more constrained by a lack of external knowledge than process innovation. External research and development do not affect product or process innovation and the joint effect of internal and external knowledge on product innovation exceeds the separate effects of internal and external knowledge on innovation. Furthermore, external knowledge acquisition and firm spending on internal research and development affect product and process innovation more effectively for older firms and firms in the services sector. Finally, the interaction of external and internal knowledge raises chances of undertaking product and process innovation with internal and external knowledge having greater impact on innovation when internal and external knowledge complement each other than when utilized separately.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 259-280
Issue: 2
Volume: 6
Year: 2016
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2016.1195086
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Author-Name: Olawale Oladipo Adejuwon
Author-X-Name-First: Olawale Oladipo
Author-X-Name-Last: Adejuwon
Title: Bridging gaps in innovation systems for small-scale agricultural activities in sub-Saharan Africa: brokers wanted!
Abstract:
The limited development and diffusion of appropriate innovations in the context of small-scale agricultural production in sub-Saharan Africa can be attributed to the lack of cohesiveness among actors within agricultural innovation systems. Linkages can however be facilitated among actors by brokerage. Although the practice of brokerage is still at an infant stage, available literature recommends with reservations brokers whose core function is brokerage for the sector. In order to identify actors policy-makers can nominate as brokers to fast-track brokerage activities in the sector, this conceptual study; (a) delineates actors in the innovation system into three groups – smallholders, innovating units and funding/policy support institutions; (b) theorizes that effective brokers – are constructively socially evaluated and high in self-monitoring, have high absorptive capacities, possess global connections and excel in their core functions and (c) applies these characteristics on the delineated groups. The study outlines brokerage content to be information, knowledge and funding and recommends brokers who are embedded in the innovation system by their core functions for the sector.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 175-193
Issue: 2
Volume: 6
Year: 2016
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2016.1195089
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Author-Name: Andrew Agyei-Holmes
Author-X-Name-First: Andrew
Author-X-Name-Last: Agyei-Holmes
Title: Technology transfer and agricultural mechanization in Tanzania: institutional adjustments to accommodate emerging economy innovations
Abstract:
Recent economic growth in Tanzania has been biased towards industry and services, denying farmers potential distributional benefits. Correcting this anomaly requires in part appropriate technologies to raise agricultural productivity. Attempts to either develop local tools or import advanced country technologies had limited benefits. Recent studies suggest that for poor producers in Tanzania, mechanization technologies from emerging economies are more appropriate in relation to their production characteristics. However, being locked-in advanced country technologies means both market and non-market institutions responsible for mechanization technology transfer in Tanzania have evolved to suite machines from the EU, Japan and USA. To accommodate the new market dynamic, where attention is shifting to emerging economies, modifications to the current technology transfer infrastructure are required. Using firm, farm and government level data on importation, distribution, usage and maintenance of tractors in Tanzania, this paper argues that the potential benefits of emerging economy tractors can be greatly enhanced if calculated attempts are made to modify the existing technology transfer and diffusion process.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 195-211
Issue: 2
Volume: 6
Year: 2016
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2016.1196545
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Author-Name: Francesco Lamperti
Author-X-Name-First: Francesco
Author-X-Name-Last: Lamperti
Author-Name: Roberto Mavilia
Author-X-Name-First: Roberto
Author-X-Name-Last: Mavilia
Author-Name: Marco Giometti
Author-X-Name-First: Marco
Author-X-Name-Last: Giometti
Title: Persistence of innovation and knowledge flows in Africa: an empirical investigation
Abstract:
This paper investigates the persistence of innovative activities at firm level in Africa. Assessing whether innovation is persistent or not is crucial in order to discriminate between different possible drivers of innovative processes and for guiding public policies aimed at promoting innovation. Using patent data, our aim is to capture some relevant features of innovative activities in the African region. Moreover, we look at the effect of international knowledge flows on the persistence of innovative activities. Employing a non-parametric approach based on transition probability matrices, we find some degree of persistence and a positive impact of knowledge flows from developed countries (OECD).
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 235-257
Issue: 2
Volume: 6
Year: 2016
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2016.1196547
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Author-Name: Abdi Yuya Ahmad
Author-X-Name-First: Abdi Yuya
Author-X-Name-Last: Ahmad
Author-Name: Keun Lee
Author-X-Name-First: Keun
Author-X-Name-Last: Lee
Title: Embodied technology transfer and learning by exporting in the Ethiopian manufacturing sector
Abstract:
This paper examined the role of imported inputs, new capital goods and exporting on firm performance using micro data collected over 2000–2011 from manufacturing firms with 10 and above permanent employees in Ethiopia. Performance was measured in terms of labour productivity, total factor productivity (TFP) and TFP catch-up. In this paper, we argue that technologies embodied in imported inputs and new capital goods and export orientation are the crucial sources of learning and innovation, which enhance performance of firms in less-developed countries. The hypotheses developed along this argument were econometrically tested by applying a dynamic panel data technique. Results indicate that exporting, greater use of imported inputs and new capital goods significantly improved the productivity and TFP catch-up of firms. The positive productivity effects of imported inputs and new capital goods appeared to be higher for exporters than non-exporters. New capital goods were seen to play a greater role in embodied technology transfer than imported inputs. The findings generally suggest that improving access to imported inputs, encouraging investment in new capital goods and strengthening export orientation among manufacturing firms can help accelerate technology transfer and build local innovation capabilities towards Ethiopia’s desired structural transformation.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 281-303
Issue: 2
Volume: 6
Year: 2016
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2016.1197330
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Title: Editorial Board
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: ebi-ebi
Issue: 2
Volume: 6
Year: 2016
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2016.1210725
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Author-Name: M. G. Ukpabio
Author-X-Name-First: M. G.
Author-X-Name-Last: Ukpabio
Author-Name: A. D. Adeyeye
Author-X-Name-First: A. D.
Author-X-Name-Last: Adeyeye
Author-Name: O. B. Oluwatope
Author-X-Name-First: O. B.
Author-X-Name-Last: Oluwatope
Title: Absorptive capacity and product innovation: new evidence from Nigeria
Abstract:
This paper assesses the influence of absorptive capacity (AC) on firms’ product innovation by relying on pooled cross-sectional data from innovation surveys among Nigerian manufacturing and service firms. The study employs variables such as educational qualification, technology acquisition, intramural R&D and collaboration as proxies for measuring AC. Using the ordinal logit model, our result shows that higher educational qualification is the determinant of product innovation among manufacturing firms while collaboration with knowledge institutions, the determinant among service firms. In addition, the impact of R&D investments on product innovation becomes significant among manufacturing firms when moderated with age. We can thus infer that high-level skilled workers and external collaboration increase the likelihood of introducing new-to-market product innovations among manufacturing and service firms respectively by enhancing the AC of firms. Similarly, R&D investment can only have impact on the ability to introduce new-to-market product innovations as firms mature with age. Since the factors of AC driving the two sectors differ, there is therefore no one-cap-fit-all solution. Hence, there is the need for sector-specific policies that will enhance firms’ competences and capabilities and drive national competitiveness. These include state interventions through government policy instruments in areas such as education, training, intellectual property and funding among others. Careful consideration should however be made in introducing these interventions in order to avoid government failure.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 213-233
Issue: 2
Volume: 6
Year: 2016
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2016.1215801
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Author-Name: Abiodun Egbetokun
Author-X-Name-First: Abiodun
Author-X-Name-Last: Egbetokun
Author-Name: Richmond Atta-Ankomah
Author-X-Name-First: Richmond
Author-X-Name-Last: Atta-Ankomah
Author-Name: Oluseye Jegede
Author-X-Name-First: Oluseye
Author-X-Name-Last: Jegede
Author-Name: Edward Lorenz
Author-X-Name-First: Edward
Author-X-Name-Last: Lorenz
Title: Firm-level innovation in Africa: overcoming limits and constraints
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 161-174
Issue: 2
Volume: 6
Year: 2016
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2016.1224619
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Author-Name: Gabriela Bortz
Author-X-Name-First: Gabriela
Author-X-Name-Last: Bortz
Author-Name: Hernan Thomas
Author-X-Name-First: Hernan
Author-X-Name-Last: Thomas
Title: Biotechnologies for inclusive development: scaling up, knowledge intensity and empowerment (the case of the probiotic yoghurt ‘Yogurito’ in Argentina)
Abstract:
This paper analyses how technological and institutional innovation strategies were deployed towards achieving a high-scale, sustainable, knowledge intensive, locally grounded project, through the experience of an Argentinean biotechnology-based nutritional supplement delivered in schools to solve child malnutrition led diseases. The paper focuses on how the case of ‘Yogurito’ managed to address three challenges within recent Innovation for Inclusive Development literature: (1) involving heterogeneous actors in the innovation process within knowledge intensive technologies, (2) gaining scale while fostering participatory technology development processes, and (3) promoting the articulation of science, technology and innovation (STI) programmes with wider (social, sanitary and productive) policies. Through the trajectory of the probiotic yoghurt, the article examines learning and innovation strategies in technological design and institutional arrangements. We argue that the organizational strategies deployed to articulate scientific and locally grounded capacities were key elements that allowed the programme’s working, its sustainability over time, and the unfolding of a regional development policy scheme.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 37-61
Issue: 1
Volume: 7
Year: 2017
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2017.1281206
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Author-Name: John Bryden
Author-X-Name-First: John
Author-X-Name-Last: Bryden
Author-Name: Stig S. Gezelius
Author-X-Name-First: Stig S.
Author-X-Name-Last: Gezelius
Title: Innovation as if people mattered: the ethics of innovation for sustainable development
Abstract:
Innovation policies’ normative foundations have been little discussed in the academic literature, despite these foundations’ impact on the priorities and consequences of innovation. Especially, the aim of sustainable development calls for discussion about innovation’s normative foundations. This article discusses ethical principles drawn from ideas about Triple Bottom Line (TBL) accounting, human rights, and the New Sussex Manifesto. It discusses implications that these ethical principles have for innovation systems design and for innovation policies. Based on that discussion, the authors outline a principle of a human rights-based TBL in innovation. This principle implies that innovation systems, especially those involving vital resources, should look beyond science, technology, and competitiveness, and consider the needs and rights of those whose livelihoods depend on the resources in question. The article concludes with a set of general principles for the design of innovation systems in natural resource-based economies.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 101-118
Issue: 1
Volume: 7
Year: 2017
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2017.1281208
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Author-Name: John Bryden
Author-X-Name-First: John
Author-X-Name-Last: Bryden
Author-Name: Stig S. Gezelius
Author-X-Name-First: Stig S.
Author-X-Name-Last: Gezelius
Author-Name: Karen Refsgaard
Author-X-Name-First: Karen
Author-X-Name-Last: Refsgaard
Author-Name: Judith Sutz
Author-X-Name-First: Judith
Author-X-Name-Last: Sutz
Title: Inclusive innovation in the bioeconomy: concepts and directions for research
Abstract:
In this introduction to the special issue on inclusive innovation in the bioeconomy, the authors highlight inclusive innovation’s significance to economies that provide the vital resources of food, water, and energy. Innovation in the bioeconomy raises questions of environmental sustainability, human survival, social justice, and human rights. This article thus emphasizes, especially, the roles that institutions play regarding innovation in the bioeconomy. The authors suggest that inclusive innovation be defined as new ways of improving the lives of the most needy. They outline research implications of this definition, and relate these implications to debates about the modes and ethics of innovation. They argue that innovation systems’ design affects these systems’ potential for inclusiveness as well as their value premises. Finally, the contributions to this special issue are introduced and discussed in light of the special issue’s overall purpose and framework.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 1-16
Issue: 1
Volume: 7
Year: 2017
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2017.1281209
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Author-Name: Maria Figueroa-Armijos
Author-X-Name-First: Maria
Author-X-Name-Last: Figueroa-Armijos
Author-Name: Corinne B. Valdivia
Author-X-Name-First: Corinne B.
Author-X-Name-Last: Valdivia
Title: Sustainable innovation to cope with climate change and market variability in the Bolivian Highlands
Abstract:
This study explores how sustainable innovation and the collaborative learning process can contribute to resilience in the Bolivian Highlands, as a response to shocks caused by climate change and market variability. Specifically, we focus on the collective, localized, and embedded efforts of three rural communities. The communities under study participated in a mixed top down-bottom up collaborative learning system, which relied on indigenous knowledge, local institutions, and inclusive participation to promote innovation and inclusive development. We used a transaction cost approach based on semi-structured interviews of various stakeholders, and community observation to measure the benefits and costs of participating in the collaborative initiative. The main findings show a strong effect in (1) the reinforcement of a collaborative system as a means to promote grounded and inclusive innovation and (2) the reduction of transaction costs in production and commercialization for the participant producers and their families. Time constraints at the household level, due primarily to outmigration, were identified as a major factor for failure.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 17-35
Issue: 1
Volume: 7
Year: 2017
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2017.1281210
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Author-Name: Santiago Garrido
Author-X-Name-First: Santiago
Author-X-Name-Last: Garrido
Author-Name: Ana Josefina Moreira
Author-X-Name-First: Ana Josefina
Author-X-Name-Last: Moreira
Title: Farming together, learning together, and improving together: the socio-technical trajectory of the development of the inter-cooperative fish-farming projects in Argentina
Abstract:
Through the second half of the twentieth century, within both developed and underdeveloped countries, several social movements sought to produce technological alternatives in order to encourage the development of environmentally sustainable and socially inclusive dynamics. In last two decades, different international agencies encouraged the development of pro-poor aquaculture projects among small rural producers, in order to reduce poverty. However, in many cases, they exhibit limitations in terms of infrastructure; deficient services; troubles to get supplies and financial sources; and poor organization. Solving these limitations represents a big technological and cognitive challenge, but the public policies implemented were inspired by mainstream models of innovation with poor results. This paper aims to analyse how these key actors, such as cooperatives, can strengthen inclusive innovation and local development processes. It asks the following question: How cooperative rationalities can operate in inclusive innovative dynamics?
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 119-132
Issue: 1
Volume: 7
Year: 2017
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2017.1281211
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Author-Name: Gusztáv Nemes
Author-X-Name-First: Gusztáv
Author-X-Name-Last: Nemes
Author-Name: Anna Maria Augustyn
Author-X-Name-First: Anna Maria
Author-X-Name-Last: Augustyn
Title: Towards inclusive innovation in the European context – the innovation capacity of alternative networks for sustainable agriculture
Abstract:
This paper explores how the conceptual elements of inclusive innovation theory can enhance similar approaches developed in the European context. In post-productivist, sustainable agriculture, bottom-up networks provide alternative sites of innovation to the official systems of knowledge creation, driving a focus on inclusive innovation. However, the origination and spread of inclusive innovation in sustainable agriculture depends on many social and economic factors. This article offers a framework to analyse these factors and their effect on the innovation capacity of networks in sustainable agriculture. We consider both internal and external dimensions of innovation, and also their interplay in a dynamic system. We describe the internal factors that shape the functioning of innovation networks in terms of organizational dynamism, while external factors are examined in terms of relational dynamism. We argue that reflexive adaptation to changing circumstances holds the key to successful innovation pathways. To illustrate our ideas, two Hungarian case studies are used, based on the EU-funded SOLINSA research project.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 133-152
Issue: 1
Volume: 7
Year: 2017
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2017.1281221
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Author-Name: Finn Orstavik
Author-X-Name-First: Finn
Author-X-Name-Last: Orstavik
Title: Contests of institutional framing: sectorial governance and the innovation of mass-produced Atlantic salmon
Abstract:
Mass-production of Atlantic salmon in Norway is considered a major industrial success by many observers, and Norwegian firms and technology play an important role in this industry globally. The practice originated in peripheral communities in Norway during the 1960s. Drawing on Schumpeterian and more recent innovation theory, salmon production is shown to be an innovation-in-the-making for several decades. Starting out as an inclusive innovation, salmon production soon became entangled with scientific research, but in a way that can be characterized as grassroots. The interplay of rivalling institutional and commercial forces during three distinct phases of innovation and industry development ended up being a boon for the new industry. Compared to similar developments in Canada and Chile, Norway’s particular experience is that a balancing of institutional and commercial forces and favourable conditions for ongoing dialogue were conducive to significant growth while avoiding ecological disaster.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 63-82
Issue: 1
Volume: 7
Year: 2017
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2017.1281325
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Author-Name: Karen Refsgaard
Author-X-Name-First: Karen
Author-X-Name-Last: Refsgaard
Author-Name: John Bryden
Author-X-Name-First: John
Author-X-Name-Last: Bryden
Author-Name: Valborg Kvakkestad
Author-X-Name-First: Valborg
Author-X-Name-Last: Kvakkestad
Title: Towards inclusive innovation praxis in forest-based bioenergy
Abstract:
In this paper, we apply grounded innovation platforms (GRIPs) as a tool for inclusive innovation in relation to forest-based bioenergy in Norway. We use cases studied in the Triple Bottom Line Outcomes for Bioenergy Development and Innovation in Rural Norway research project. We review the notion of GRIPs and classify them. We analyse forms of GRIPs and the hypothesis that forms of GRIP affect ‘triple bottom line’ outcomes of sustainable development. We relate our findings to the debates on inclusive innovation, which we argue is not simply an issue for ‘developing countries’. Development, being understood to be different from economic growth, is concerned with inclusion and exclusion, and, in a world of growing inequalities, is a universal issue everywhere.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 153-173
Issue: 1
Volume: 7
Year: 2017
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2017.1281343
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Author-Name: Olga Ustyuzhantseva
Author-X-Name-First: Olga
Author-X-Name-Last: Ustyuzhantseva
Title: Studies of inclusive innovation in sociotechnical systems: case studies in Russia and India
Abstract:
This paper considers the cases of two countries, India and Russia, and investigates the occurrence and development of inclusive innovation in the socioeconomic, cultural, and historical context of these countries. Both had similar political regimes and began economic reforms simultaneously at the beginning of the 1990s that led to transformation of these regimes. Both countries are experiencing the problem of imbalanced development and increasing social and economic disparity in society. We examine the governmental and societal regimes that are inside the sociotechnical systems of these countries to define the spaces for inclusive innovation. The main purpose is to identify the factors and settings enabling inclusive innovation development at the level of society and public policy.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 83-100
Issue: 1
Volume: 7
Year: 2017
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2017.1281359
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Author-Name: José Miguel Natera
Author-X-Name-First: José Miguel
Author-X-Name-Last: Natera
Author-Name: Cecilia Tomassini
Author-X-Name-First: Cecilia
Author-X-Name-Last: Tomassini
Author-Name: Alexandre O. Vera-Cruz
Author-X-Name-First: Alexandre O.
Author-X-Name-Last: Vera-Cruz
Title: Policy analysis and knowledge application for building a healthy health innovation system in developing countries
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 159-168
Issue: 2
Volume: 9
Year: 2019
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2019.1570627
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Author-Name: Rebecca Hanlin
Author-X-Name-First: Rebecca
Author-X-Name-Last: Hanlin
Author-Name: Margrethe Holm Andersen
Author-X-Name-First: Margrethe Holm
Author-X-Name-Last: Andersen
Title: Putting knowledge flows front and centre in health systems strengthening
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This paper is a conceptual paper outlining a framework to analyse the main barriers linking knowledge production and application in the area of health in developing countries. It does so through a broad mapping and rethinking of the role of social and technological innovation in health systems strengthening. An analytical framework called the 4F framework – where the four Fs stand for Form, Field, Flows and Functions – is presented. By conducting a very high-level analysis of the barriers and enablers in knowledge production and application in the health sector in Kenya we give an indicative overview of the 4F Framework’s potential. The empirical analysis suggests knowledge is often siloed into particular areas. At the macro level, there is insufficient focus on knowledge exchange between policy sectors i.e. health, industry, education. The analysis suggests that the framework provides a means to move from building ‘health and wellbeing systems’ to focusing on ‘competence building systems in the area of health and wellbeing’ which will provide a longer term holistic approach to health systems strengthening. The paper ends by presenting a number of recommendations for policy makers to ensure enhanced up-take of both technological and social innovation in health systems.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 169-186
Issue: 2
Volume: 9
Year: 2019
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2019.1567913
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Author-Name: Cecilia Tomassini Urti
Author-X-Name-First: Cecilia
Author-X-Name-Last: Tomassini Urti
Author-Name: Carlos Bianchi
Author-X-Name-First: Carlos
Author-X-Name-Last: Bianchi
Author-Name: Maria Clara Couto Soares
Author-X-Name-First: Maria Clara
Author-X-Name-Last: Couto Soares
Title: Health-related knowledge production in Brazil: regional interaction networks and priority setting
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Sustaining and improving public health conditions require endogenous knowledge production capacities, a result of a dynamic interaction between researchers, public health officers and policy makers. In particular, in the context of high-socioeconomic inequality and diverse epidemiological profiles, the interaction between actors of the innovation system throughout the territory is necessary to identify and meet health demands. This paper presents an original contribution by addressing the changing composition and trends of regional health research networks in Brazil over time. Using Network Analysis techniques, we analysed data of over 100,000 research projects carried out in Brazil during the period of 2000–2015. We also studied the regional distribution of health research priority agendas as defined by the Ministry of Health. Our results show that despite the centralization of research capacity in the richest regions of the country, the interaction between leading research groups, both nationally and within the most disadvantaged regions, have been strengthened during the period of analysis. On the basis of this empirical evidence, the main contribution of the paper is to highlight the role of Health Policy and Science Technology and Innovation (STI) Policy, to inform knowledge production that meets public health needs.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 187-204
Issue: 2
Volume: 9
Year: 2019
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2019.1567937
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Author-Name: José Miguel Natera
Author-X-Name-First: José Miguel
Author-X-Name-Last: Natera
Author-Name: Soledad Rojas-Rajs
Author-X-Name-First: Soledad
Author-X-Name-Last: Rojas-Rajs
Author-Name: Gabriela Dutrénit
Author-X-Name-First: Gabriela
Author-X-Name-Last: Dutrénit
Author-Name: Alexandre O. Vera-Cruz
Author-X-Name-First: Alexandre O.
Author-X-Name-Last: Vera-Cruz
Title: National health problems and useful knowledge: lessons from public funding of diabetes research in Mexico
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Diabetes Mellitus has become an urgent national health problem in Mexico. We would expect knowledge production, particularly when is publicly funded, to be oriented towards the generation of useful applications and to collaborate in the solution of this disease. In this paper, we aim at analysing knowledge production for diabetes in terms of the Pasteur's quadrant, which consist of two axes: (i) ‘consideration of knowledge use’ and (ii) ‘search for fundamental knowledge’. We organized 303 diabetes projects supported by CONACYT funds to operationalize a structural equation modelling (SEM) that frames diabetes research in Mexico. We found that most of research funds are not devoted to projects with high levels of ‘consideration of knowledge use’; we believe that this is caused by the context of scientific funding in Mexico, which have incentives for basic research and does not count with sufficient mechanisms to orient the use of new scientific knowledge. We outline some policy recommendations. First, incentives should be focused on reorienting the research system towards a greater consideration of knowledge use. Second, the project approval process could also be modified to be more democratic, which the scientific community could discuss and find consensus with other social actors.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 205-224
Issue: 2
Volume: 9
Year: 2019
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2019.1567906
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Author-Name: Gabriela Bortz
Author-X-Name-First: Gabriela
Author-X-Name-Last: Bortz
Author-Name: Hernán Thomas
Author-X-Name-First: Hernán
Author-X-Name-Last: Thomas
Title: Parasites, bugs and banks: problems and constraints of designing policies and technologies that transform R&D into healthcare solutions: the case of Chagas disease in Argentina (2007–2017)
Abstract:
This paper analyses how recent STI policies in Argentina addressed the problem of transforming biomedical knowledge into solutions to priority healthcare problems and inequalities. It examines the Sectoral Technology Innovation Fund for Health and a specific project call aimed at congenital Chagas disease diagnosis. Conceived to foster systemic innovation dynamics, ‘Sectoral Funds’ were praised as a representative instrument within a regional policy trend of associative promotion of R&D. Through a ‘backwards mapping’ strategy, the paper departs from policy results (three diagnostic kits), to reconstruct the decision-making process of the instrument. This work explores the difficulties of building the social utility of R&D capacities in health towards effective solutions to local sanitary problems. It shows the persistence of the linear innovation model on R&D and policy practices – even within systemic discourses – the design of solutions as fixes isolated from wider healthcare policies, and the constraints of international funding for policy decision-making.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 225-243
Issue: 2
Volume: 9
Year: 2019
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2019.1567904
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Author-Name: Eduardo Urias
Author-X-Name-First: Eduardo
Author-X-Name-Last: Urias
Title: The potential synergies between industrial and health policies for access to medicines: insights from the Brazilian policy of universal access to HIV/AIDS treatment
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The purpose of this study is to illustrate how industrial policy can support health policy through the construction of technological and innovation capabilities. This paper provides insights on this topic by examining the Brazilian ability to make patented antiretroviral (ARV) drugs universally accessible to people living with HIV/AIDS in the country. The Brazilian case study demonstrates the crucial role of industrial policy in making the use of compulsory licensing in price negotiations with pharmaceutical multinational corporations to improve the access to patented ARV drugs. The evidence presented in this paper supports that it is indeed possible to achieve synergies between industrial and health policy in order to improve the access to medicines and promote accumulation of technological capabilities in pharmaceuticals. Several policy instruments and initiatives, both horizontal and vertical, were implemented to support the industrial dimension of the successful Brazilian health strategy. These initiatives include direct support to capacity building, public procurement, and institutional changes. Furthermore, industrial policy initiatives can contribute to success of health programmes either immediately or with a time lag. Finally, the lessons learned from the Brazilian experience are re-specified and its relevance to other less developed countries, particularly those deprived of industrial capabilities, is discussed.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 245-260
Issue: 2
Volume: 9
Year: 2019
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2019.1567964
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Author-Name: Natalia Gras
Author-X-Name-First: Natalia
Author-X-Name-Last: Gras
Author-Name: Gabriela Dutrénit
Author-X-Name-First: Gabriela
Author-X-Name-Last: Dutrénit
Author-Name: Matías Vera-Cruz
Author-X-Name-First: Matías
Author-X-Name-Last: Vera-Cruz
Title: A causal model of inclusive innovation for healthcare solutions: a methodological approach to implement a new theoretical vision of social interactions and policies
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This paper is about knowledge production and its application to healthcare solutions oriented towards underprivileged people. Based on the existing literature, we use a different lens to approach the agents, interactions and policies related to the creation, adoption and diffusion of inclusive innovation. We propose a theoretical causal model with which conceptual and practical problems with regard to innovative and inclusive healthcare solutions could be analyzed and assessed, and discuss how public policy could contribute to stimulate processes of creation, adoption and diffusion of this kind of solutions. This paper is based on a qualitative analysis of three exemplary case studies of different developing countries. This brings elements for understandings the major influences on innovative and inclusive healthcare solutions, which are presented as a theoretical model in the form of a causal graph.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 261-286
Issue: 2
Volume: 9
Year: 2019
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2019.1567817
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Author-Name: Vusumuzi Ncube
Author-X-Name-First: Vusumuzi
Author-X-Name-Last: Ncube
Author-Name: Joanna Chataway
Author-X-Name-First: Joanna
Author-X-Name-Last: Chataway
Title: Harnessing innovative HIV point-of-care testing for health systems strengthening: early lessons from Zimbabwe
Abstract:
Questions linking social needs with new technologies have continued to be raised but only very recently have they begun to occupy more of the centre-stage in innovation policy debates. In this narrative review, we draw from innovation and health systems literature and thinking to trace and analyse the deployment and uptake of innovative point-of-care testing in the early infant diagnosis of HIV in Zimbabwe, one of 15 UNITAID supported early adopter countries. Following a literature review and discussions with policy-makers in Zimbabwe, we distil key lessons from this implementation context and delineate the implications of our findings for the debates on new technological and socio-economic approaches and the health systems strengthening agenda in low-middle income countries (LMICs). We conclude this article by proposing new avenues for future research.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 287-304
Issue: 2
Volume: 9
Year: 2019
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2019.1567851
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Author-Name: Arturo Torres Vargas
Author-X-Name-First: Arturo
Author-X-Name-Last: Torres Vargas
Author-Name: Betsabé Castellanos Gómez
Author-X-Name-First: Betsabé
Author-X-Name-Last: Castellanos Gómez
Title: Barriers and facilitators of knowledge use in the health care system in Mexico: the Newborn Screening Programme
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There is currently a discussion about the know-do gap, and the factors that limit the application of knowledge generated in universities and public research centres, so that they can contribute to solve health problems of the population. By taking elements from the knowledge transfer, the innovation and institutional studies, this work aims to contribute in that direction by analysing the case of the newborn screening project, a university initiative that after nearly 15 years became a National Health Programme in Mexico. The findings indicate that the institutional entrepreneur (IE) and the creation of an interface unit played a crucial role as articulators of the actors and facilitators of that process, overcoming institutional, organizational and resource barriers.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 305-321
Issue: 2
Volume: 9
Year: 2019
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2019.1567876
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Author-Name: Dinesh Abrol
Author-X-Name-First: Dinesh
Author-X-Name-Last: Abrol
Author-Name: Sachin Chaturved
Author-X-Name-First: Sachin
Author-X-Name-Last: Chaturved
Author-Name: K.J. Joseph
Author-X-Name-First: K.J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Joseph
Title: In Memoriam: Ashok Parthasarathi, Editorial Advisory Board Member, Innovation and Development
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 323-324
Issue: 2
Volume: 9
Year: 2019
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2019.1663598
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Title: Correction
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: I-II
Issue: 2
Volume: 9
Year: 2019
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2019.1657656
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Author-Name: Ashima Goyal
Author-X-Name-First: Ashima
Author-X-Name-Last: Goyal
Title: Conditions for inclusive innovation with application to telecom and mobile banking
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An innovation is defined to be inclusive if it is affordable and increases productivity. Three ways of facilitating inclusion through such innovation in emerging and developing economies are derived analytically. First, invest in inducing more technical change in products the less well-off use. Second, improve capital or skills available to them. Third, reduce their transaction costs. Both the second and the third increase market size for inclusive innovation, thus promoting it through markets. An example of the second is better public provision of relevant infrastructure and of the third is better regulatory design. Absence of such a focus in Indian telecom and mobile banking policy limited market size. Poor Internet infrastructure constrained development of mobile services. Higher transaction costs explain India’s slow start in mobile banking, compared to Pakistan.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 227-248
Issue: 2
Volume: 7
Year: 2017
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2016.1187845
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Author-Name: Michael Gastrow
Author-X-Name-First: Michael
Author-X-Name-Last: Gastrow
Author-Name: Glenda Kruss
Author-X-Name-First: Glenda
Author-X-Name-Last: Kruss
Author-Name: Maitseo Bolaane
Author-X-Name-First: Maitseo
Author-X-Name-Last: Bolaane
Author-Name: Timothy Esemu
Author-X-Name-First: Timothy
Author-X-Name-Last: Esemu
Title: Borderline innovation, marginalized communities: universities and inclusive development in ecologically fragile locations
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Where do the notional boundaries of the concept of innovation lie, and what does this mean for the study of innovation in socially marginalized settings, where changes are localized, incremental, informal, and social? How can this help us understand new aspects of innovation and inclusive development? To explore these questions, we draw on an evidence base describing university interactions with highly marginalized communities in South Africa, Uganda, and Botswana. These universities have established interface structures through which participative knowledge-building has led to new processes and social structures that have helped communities to address their livelihoods challenges. At the same time, universities have benefitted from the interaction, gaining from the communities’ local knowledge. This paper explores the characteristics of these interactions in order to open up a new empirical frontier, and also to reflect on the utility of innovation systems theory for understanding borderline cases of innovation that take place in informal settings and marginalized communities.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 211-226
Issue: 2
Volume: 7
Year: 2017
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2016.1200970
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Author-Name: Sara S. (Saartjie) Grobbelaar
Author-X-Name-First: Sara S. (Saartjie)
Author-X-Name-Last: Grobbelaar
Author-Name: Ulene Schiller
Author-X-Name-First: Ulene
Author-X-Name-Last: Schiller
Author-Name: Gideon de Wet
Author-X-Name-First: Gideon
Author-X-Name-Last: de Wet
Title: University-supported inclusive innovation platform: the case of University of Fort Hare
Abstract:
A common question that prompts universities to reconsider their relationships and role in sustainable development in their immediate context is: How has the university over the years contributed to inclusive development of surrounding communities? Grounded in the innovation systems framework, the literature of engaged scholarship, innovation for inclusive development, and innovation platforms, the authors propose a framework for the development of a University-coordinated Inclusive Innovation Platform. The University of Fort Hare was used as a case study to reflect on what has been done and the processes and principles that have been followed during the coordination of the formation and functioning of such a platform. This paper is of interest to a wide audience as it may assist in supporting more proof-of-concept inclusive innovation projects and programmes to stimulate and support inclusive development in communities.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 249-270
Issue: 2
Volume: 7
Year: 2017
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2016.1252376
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Author-Name: Rajah Rasiah
Author-X-Name-First: Rajah
Author-X-Name-Last: Rasiah
Author-Name: Yap Xiao Shan
Author-X-Name-First: Yap Xiao
Author-X-Name-Last: Shan
Author-Name: Kamal Salih
Author-X-Name-First: Kamal
Author-X-Name-Last: Salih
Title: Sub-national governments and technological upgrading in the integrated circuit cluster in Northern Malaysia
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Most accounts of successful technological catch up and the diffusion of foreign sources of knowledge have focused on the role of federal governments. Little is known of how successful sub-national government strategies have evolved to stimulate technological upgrading in particular locations. This paper shows how a network of unique collaboration links that evolved between the Penang government and organizations, foreign multinationals and national firms helped forge strong flows of knowledge among integrated circuits (IC) firms in the sub-national region. Although Penang’s and Kulim High Tech Park’s IC firms still lag technologically behind IC firms in Korea and Taiwan, the evolution of productive networking at the sub-national level has helped stimulate technological upgrading in the region.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 287-307
Issue: 2
Volume: 7
Year: 2017
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2016.1261760
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Author-Name: Esma Nur Cinicioglu
Author-X-Name-First: Esma Nur
Author-X-Name-Last: Cinicioglu
Author-Name: Gündüz Ulusoy
Author-X-Name-First: Gündüz
Author-X-Name-Last: Ulusoy
Author-Name: Şule Önsel Ekici
Author-X-Name-First: Şule
Author-X-Name-Last: Önsel Ekici
Author-Name: Füsun Ülengin
Author-X-Name-First: Füsun
Author-X-Name-Last: Ülengin
Author-Name: Burç Ülengin
Author-X-Name-First: Burç
Author-X-Name-Last: Ülengin
Title: Exploring the interaction between competitiveness of a country and innovation using Bayesian networks
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Innovation cannot be related only to some factors inherent in the environment of a country, nor is it a single entity to be managed without any linkages to the rest of the actors comprising the competitiveness of a country. World Economic Forum (WEF)’s competitiveness model consisting of 12 pillars and 19 sub-pillars is an attempt along these lines. By analysing the interaction between the Innovation pillar and the remaining 11 pillars and their sub-pillars comprising the competitiveness indicators, this paper aims to provide strategic guidelines to policy-makers who search for strategies to improve their country’s innovativeness level. For this purpose, WEF’s Global Competitiveness Index data for the period (2009-2012) is employed. The innovation performance of 148 countries is analysed using an integrated cluster analysis and a Bayesian Network (BN) framework. The use of BNs enables us to discover the probabilistic dependency structure of competitiveness indicators and its innovation performance, which may be analysed in more detail through evidence observation and sensitivity analyses conducted in the network. Thus, with this research, presenting the multidimensional nature between competitiveness indicators and Innovation, a decision support tool for policy-makers is presented, which can be used to form strategy guidelines for enhancing a country’s Innovation level.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 175-209
Issue: 2
Volume: 7
Year: 2017
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2017.1292617
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Author-Name: Helena Maria Martins Lastres
Author-X-Name-First: Helena Maria Martins
Author-X-Name-Last: Lastres
Author-Name: José Eduardo Cassiolato
Author-X-Name-First: José Eduardo
Author-X-Name-Last: Cassiolato
Title: Development and innovation: learning from the legacies of Freeman and Furtado
Abstract:
Some ideas and policy proposals on development and innovation, disseminated in the second decade of the 2000s, reintroduce obsolete visions, which isolate economic phenomena from their territorial, historical and socio-political contexts. Hence, there is a need to recuperate Freeman’s and Furtado’s systemic and contextualized contributions to the understanding of these processes. Besides exploring these and other convergences in their approaches, the paper highlights their crucial insights about the usually ignored influence of power on these issues. We reaffirm that the combination of the two authors’ analytical and normative frameworks makes them even more useful to a wider set of cases and countries. We also argue that this effort can provide a novel and proper ground for comparative analyses, helping to foster development and further refinement of different frameworks, strengthening their role as a tool to understand and orient the processes of development and innovation.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 271-286
Issue: 2
Volume: 7
Year: 2017
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2017.1361057
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Author-Name: The Editors
Title: Editorial Board
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: ebi-ebi
Issue: 2
Volume: 7
Year: 2017
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2017.1366288
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Author-Name: Cali Nuur
Author-X-Name-First: Cali
Author-X-Name-Last: Nuur
Author-Name: Linda Gustavsson
Author-X-Name-First: Linda
Author-X-Name-Last: Gustavsson
Author-Name: Staffan Laestadius
Author-X-Name-First: Staffan
Author-X-Name-Last: Laestadius
Title: Capability creation in the natural resource-based sector: experiences from Swedish mining
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In the political arena, natural resources activities – including mining – are generally viewed as low-tech and are not associated with the technological innovations that serve as the precursors of competition. In old industrialized nations, mining is limited to a few countries and mining-related activities are typically considered low-tech endeavours that rely on old and outdated technologies. In addition, mining districts are seen as lacking the prerequisites of economic development, such as an entrepreneurial spirit, knowledge formation mechanisms and diverse human capital formation. This paper discusses mining in the old industrialized nation of Sweden where mining is an important contributor to national competitiveness. Through a case study of two mines and the mining district, we argue that in order to understand the processes underlying the competitiveness of the natural resource-based sector, that is, mining sector in the context of a high-income nation, Sweden, it is important to dig deeper as regards mechanisms such as overall economic and institutional conditions as well as industrial adoptions of generic technologies, learning and upstream collaborations. The paper concludes with suggestions for further research and provides policy implications in the context of competence development.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 103-123
Issue: 1
Volume: 8
Year: 2018
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2017.1314813
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Author-Name: Björn Johnson
Author-X-Name-First: Björn
Author-X-Name-Last: Johnson
Author-Name: Gert Villumsen
Author-X-Name-First: Gert
Author-X-Name-Last: Villumsen
Title: Environmental aspects of natural resource intensive development: the case of agriculture
Abstract:
This paper is about the environmental impacts of modern agriculture on the background of the challenges for sustainable development raised by the Anthropocene. We argue that the Anthropocene makes it necessary to sharpen the notion of sustainability in order to get a clearer picture of the most serious problems and for this reason we relate agriculture’s source and sink problems to the notion of planetary boundaries. It is also important to develop an environmental ethic that relates to the Anthropocene. In order to discuss policy options, we take departure in the so-called IPAT (Environmental Impact = Population × Affluence × Technology) equation and address the issues of population growth, increased material well-being and technological change. We conclude that it is not lack of information, goals or instruments that prevent effective policies to be implemented. The reasons are rather structural and systemic.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 167-188
Issue: 1
Volume: 8
Year: 2018
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2017.1317915
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Author-Name: Kristin Ranestad
Author-X-Name-First: Kristin
Author-X-Name-Last: Ranestad
Title: The mining sectors in Chile and Norway, ca. 1870–1940: the development of a knowledge gap
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Chile and Norway are two ‘natural resource-intensive economies’, which have had different development trajectories, yet are closely similar in industrial structure and geophysical conditions. This paper seeks to contribute to the debate about how and why some economies based on natural resource activities have been more dynamic and innovative than others by indicating contributing factors of key differences in one natural resource sector both countries developed, namely mining. I explore how comparable knowledge organizations developed knowledge and how they help to understand differences in development. More knowledge was developed and accumulated in Norway than in Chile, which indicates that there was a knowledge gap between the two countries. Mining instructions were similar, but there were striking differences when it came to (1) number of graduates, (2) number of travel arrangements for practical learning and (3) organised geological mapping and ore surveys. These differences contribute to explain the emerging gap of the two sectors, which in turn may be linked to the role of the state. In Norway, the state was much more active in supporting knowledge development through funding of education, scholarships and the National Geological Survey. In Chile, these key knowledge organizations were given lower priority by political decision-makers.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 147-165
Issue: 1
Volume: 8
Year: 2018
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2017.1322030
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Author-Name: Michiko Iizuka
Author-X-Name-First: Michiko
Author-X-Name-Last: Iizuka
Author-Name: Mulu Gebreeyesus
Author-X-Name-First: Mulu
Author-X-Name-Last: Gebreeyesus
Title: ‘Discovery’ of non-traditional agricultural exports in Latin America: diverging pathways through learning and innovation
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Diversification of exports plays a critical role in economic growth and development, especially for countries endowed with natural resources. Successful cases often take advantage of a so-called natural resource knowledge idiosyncrasy, a unique combination of factor endowments and technological capabilities in a given natural environment. While building capabilities is fundamental, identification and exploitation of ‘windows of opportunity’ in the global market is of particular importance in establishing successful export industries. By examining four cases of non-traditional agricultural export products – cut flowers (Colombia and Ecuador) and blueberries (Chile and Argentina) – this paper identifies how the ‘self-discovery’ process of pioneers shapes the distinctive pathways through interacting with global, local and natural conditions using the adapted framework of functions of innovation systems.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 59-78
Issue: 1
Volume: 8
Year: 2018
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2017.1355771
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Author-Name: Gustavo Crespi
Author-X-Name-First: Gustavo
Author-X-Name-Last: Crespi
Author-Name: Jorge Katz
Author-X-Name-First: Jorge
Author-X-Name-Last: Katz
Author-Name: Jocelyn Olivari
Author-X-Name-First: Jocelyn
Author-X-Name-Last: Olivari
Title: Innovation, natural resource-based activities and growth in emerging economies: the formation and role of knowledge-intensive service firms
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Many Latin American countries currently exhibit a pattern of production specialization heavily biased toward resource-based commodities and foodstuffs. In natural resource based activities production is highly dependent upon environmental and ecological forces. Companies processing the resource strongly depend upon specilaized subcontractors and equipment producing firms catering for their demand for location specific machinery and process engineering know how Following a case study approach we examine here the growth dynamics of some of these activities and the extent to which they can become a new 'window of opportunity' in the growth process of different Latin American countries.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 79-101
Issue: 1
Volume: 8
Year: 2018
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2017.1377387
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Author-Name: K. J. Joseph
Author-X-Name-First: K. J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Joseph
Author-Name: Namrata Thapa
Author-X-Name-First: Namrata
Author-X-Name-Last: Thapa
Author-Name: Olav Wicken
Author-X-Name-First: Olav
Author-X-Name-Last: Wicken
Title: Innovation and natural resource-based development: case of natural rubber sector in Kerala, India
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It has long been held that natural resource abundance retards economic growth. Studies using innovation system perspectives, however, suggest that natural resource abundance per se need not stand in the way of evolving a growing and diversified economy while the absence of learning and innovation could. In this context, the present study explores why Kerala has not been successful in evolving new production and industries linked to established natural resource industries. This issue has been addressed by taking the case of natural rubber known for its R&D-led output growth and productivity enhancement. Analytically, it draws insights from the ongoing discourse in the innovation system literature that distinguishes between narrow and broad approaches to innovation processes. It is argued that while the narrow approach to innovation could lead to increased productivity and growth of natural rubber under tariff protection, it could not help in evolving a vibrant rubber-based industrial sector by harnessing backward and forward linkages. In sync with the studies that underline the complementary role of science-based learning and experience-based learning in accomplishing innovation-led long-term development, the paper makes the case for evolving broad innovation strategy in natural rubber to build linkages among various actors and heterogeneous knowledge bases.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 125-146
Issue: 1
Volume: 8
Year: 2018
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2018.1427195
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Author-Name: Anabel Marìn
Author-X-Name-First: Anabel
Author-X-Name-Last: Marìn
Author-Name: Sergio Petralia
Author-X-Name-First: Sergio
Author-X-Name-Last: Petralia
Title: Sources and contexts of inter-industry differences in technological opportunities: the cases of Argentina and Brazil
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It is widely accepted within the innovation and development literatures that some industries offer higher potential for growth and development than others. The general idea is that industries with high technological dynamism offer higher potential for growth and development. There is still a large element of uncertainty, however, as to which are the most dynamic industries for each country. This paper proposes to use the concept of technological opportunity (TO) to investigate the technological dynamism of manufacturing industries of two Latin American Countries (LACs): Argentina and Brazil. Our results do not support the well-spread idea that traditional industries, in particular those strongly associated with natural resources (NRs), have and create less TOs, and therefore are less dynamic than others. They question, therefore, the adequacy of generic policies aimed at encouraging ‘high-tech’ sectors, and suggest that context-specific research needs to be conducted to identify which are the technologically dynamic industries within each country.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 29-57
Issue: 1
Volume: 8
Year: 2018
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2018.1429191
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Author-Name: Allan Dahl Andersen
Author-X-Name-First: Allan Dahl
Author-X-Name-Last: Andersen
Author-Name: Anabel Marìn
Author-X-Name-First: Anabel
Author-X-Name-Last: Marìn
Author-Name: Erlend O. Simensen
Author-X-Name-First: Erlend O.
Author-X-Name-Last: Simensen
Title: Innovation in natural resource-based industries: a pathway to development? Introduction to special issue
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Despite growing academic attention to the relationship between economic development and natural resources in social sciences, the issue has received rather limited attention in the field of Innovation Studies. This is problematic given the centrality of innovation and technological change for growth and development. Against this background, this introductory article aims to make four contributions. First, to assess the extent to which Innovation Studies has analysed the link between natural resources and development. Second, based on recent studies of innovation in natural resource-based industries (NRBIs), we elaborate on and articulate an innovation and industry perspective on the relationship between natural resources and development. In this, we foreground the particularities of innovation in NRBIs. Third, we explore policy implications of the specificities of innovation in NRBIs. It matters greatly for design and choice of policy instruments in support of innovation and development whether and how innovation in NRBIs differ from innovation in other industries. Lastly, we introduce the papers constituting this special issue and propose avenues for further research.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 1-27
Issue: 1
Volume: 8
Year: 2018
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2018.1439293
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Author-Name: Jason Miklian
Author-X-Name-First: Jason
Author-X-Name-Last: Miklian
Author-Name: Kristian Hoelscher
Author-X-Name-First: Kristian
Author-X-Name-Last: Hoelscher
Title: A new research approach for Peace Innovation
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How can we foster more socially responsible pro-peace innovations that also have deeper impact? In arguing that incorporating contextual, area-specific and conflict-sensitive guidance enhances the quality and depth of innovation, this article calls for a new research approach on Peace Innovation (PI). This approach could help overcome four existing challenges: expanding the scholar–entrepreneur–policy triad of PI; prioritizing ethical, culturally sensitive engagement; designing innovation to more clearly deliver positive impacts in conflict environments; and glocalizing the PI playing field. We then explore five thematic areas where PI can be impactful: forecasting political economies of conflict; business and virtual peacebuilding; climate and environmentalism; migration and identity; and urbanization. Finally, we discuss how to operationalize such partnerships, moving the theoretical discussion on PI forward for both the peacebuilding and innovation communities. Pushing research frontiers forward will also help innovators develop better tools that prevent violence and promote peace in crisis and conflict environments.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 189-207
Issue: 2
Volume: 8
Year: 2018
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2017.1349580
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Author-Name: Les Levidow
Author-X-Name-First: Les
Author-X-Name-Last: Levidow
Author-Name: Theo Papaioannou
Author-X-Name-First: Theo
Author-X-Name-Last: Papaioannou
Title: Which inclusive innovation? Competing normative assumptions around social justice
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The concept ‘inclusive innovation’ has responded to an increasing realization that capital-intensive innovations have generally resulted in social exclusion, especially for lower income people. Towards alternatives, the literature has competing models of social inclusion – its forms, causes and remedies. These models depend on different normative assumptions about socio-economic in/equity, corresponding to divergent theoretical camps of social justice: a liberal-individualist camp emphasizes a fairer distribution of societal benefits to individuals; more high-tech investment, skills training, cheaper products and/or more favourable external conditions will help low-income people to gain greater access. By contrast, a social-collectivist camp seeks different conditions for reconstituting societal benefits through commons and public goods. Any initiative or policy framework entails such assumptions or tensions among them. Given these competing assumptions, their models can be made explicit for strategic debate, towards opening up inclusive innovation to more conscious political choices.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 209-226
Issue: 2
Volume: 8
Year: 2018
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2017.1351605
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Author-Name: Rhiannon Pugh
Author-X-Name-First: Rhiannon
Author-X-Name-Last: Pugh
Author-Name: Tulio Chiarini
Author-X-Name-First: Tulio
Author-X-Name-Last: Chiarini
Title: Innovation studies: a North–South global perspective
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The student of innovation studies is faced with a vast, multi-national and interdisciplinary field on which she must gain an overview and make a novel contribution. There exist a plethora of academic journals, networks, conferences and fora wherein researchers of innovation discuss and advance the topic. How to manage and understand this is a major challenge. This paper helps to make sense of this often confusing and ever-shifting field by reviewing the major developments over the past 20 years, highlighting the present ‘state of the art’ and identifying some important trends going forwards. It does this through a review of the published themes of two major international conferences in the field – Danish Research Unit for Industrial Dynamics (DRUID) and Global Network for the Economics of Learning, Innovation, and Competence Building Systems (GLOBELICS) – to gain a global view on the field. At the heart of the exploration is whether the sphere of innovation studies has evolved coherently worldwide, or there are geographic differences.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 227-248
Issue: 2
Volume: 8
Year: 2018
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2017.1365150
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Author-Name: Aradhna Aggarwal
Author-X-Name-First: Aradhna
Author-X-Name-Last: Aggarwal
Title: The clean development mechanism and technology transfer: firm-level evidence from India
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This study assesses the impact of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) on the transfer of clean technology in India. The reason this study is unique is because firstly, it adopts an outcome-oriented approach to define ‘technology transfer’, which means that technology transfer occurs if firms are able to upgrade their ‘dynamic capabilities’. It uses three indicators of firms’ dynamic capabilities: R&D expenditures to sales ratio, fuel consumption to sales ratio and total factor productivity growth. Secondly, it moves away from the analysis of technology transfer claims made in either Project Development Documents or primary surveys to using actual information on firms’ performance for the analysis. The empirical analysis is based on a difference-in-difference design. It draws on the balance sheet data of 612 firms from India between 2001 and 2012 from the PROWESS database. The results reveal that CDM has the potential of laying a foundation for capability building in developing countries but in its current form, it is not effective.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 249-269
Issue: 2
Volume: 8
Year: 2018
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2017.1366967
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Author-Name: Rodrigo Arocena
Author-X-Name-First: Rodrigo
Author-X-Name-Last: Arocena
Title: Power, innovation systems and development
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Development is studied by combining normative, theoretical-factual, prospective and propositional approaches. Sustainable Human Development is the normative basis. Agency connects values and proposals. Evaluating its possibilities leads to the study of power. For that a Marx–Mann conceptual scheme is proposed; it considers technology, social relations and the interactions between them. It is used for analysing the role of power in National Innovation Systems and the rise of inequality. Strategies for fostering knowledge democratization in the context of Innovation Systems are considered. Problems and possibilities of developmental coalitions are discussed.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 271-285
Issue: 2
Volume: 8
Year: 2018
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2017.1401772
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Author-Name: Carsten Gandenberger
Author-X-Name-First: Carsten
Author-X-Name-Last: Gandenberger
Author-Name: Manuel Strauch
Author-X-Name-First: Manuel
Author-X-Name-Last: Strauch
Title: Wind energy technology as opportunity for catching-up? A comparison of the TIS in Brazil and China
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In a globalized world, emerging economies are faced with competition from technologically leading countries, which poses particular challenges for development. The Technological Innovation Systems (TIS) approach is employed to compare the innovation systems for wind energy in China and Brazil. In both countries, wind energy has recently gained in importance for the national energy system and TIS have emerged to support this development. Researchers interested in TIS formation in emerging economies have stressed the importance of international technology linkages, thus special attention is paid to such linkages between local and global actors as well as to the use of domestic versus foreign technology. Although both countries are latecomers in the industry, the way of balancing foreign and domestic technology and the resulting configuration of the TIS differs widely. In the case of China, the balance gradually shifted from foreign to domestic technology, supported by a fine-tuned and adaptive design of the relevant policy mix. In contrast, Brazil is highly reliant on the inflow of foreign technology, but was successful in attracting foreign direct investment and building a domestic supply chain.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 287-308
Issue: 2
Volume: 8
Year: 2018
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2018.1428050
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Author-Name: Dinar Kale
Author-X-Name-First: Dinar
Author-X-Name-Last: Kale
Author-Name: David Wield
Author-X-Name-First: David
Author-X-Name-Last: Wield
Title: In search of the missing hand of ‘collaborative action’: evidence from the Indian medical device industry
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Some emerging countries have made significant progress in developing local pharmaceutical and biotechnology but had less success in building medical device industries (MDIs). This paper explores the weak development of local MDIs by analysing the contrasting evolutionary trajectories of Indian healthcare technology sectors. The Indian pharmaceutical and biotechnological industries have emerged as leading global suppliers of generic drugs and vaccines, in marked contrast to the medical devices industry. This paper reveals that existence of a weak collaborative linkage between medical device manufacturers and the Indian health system, which largely lacks a systemic and cross-sectoral linkages, and weak communication between industry and government policy-makers have become a huge barrier to the development of the Indian MDI in the contemporary neo-liberal environment. The weak connection between technology and industrial policy and healthcare policy objectives has severely hampered both development of national technological capabilities and the creation of affordable health care.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 1-23
Issue: 1
Volume: 9
Year: 2019
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2018.1429807
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Author-Name: Helinä Melkas
Author-X-Name-First: Helinä
Author-X-Name-Last: Melkas
Author-Name: Tuija Oikarinen
Author-X-Name-First: Tuija
Author-X-Name-Last: Oikarinen
Author-Name: Satu Pekkarinen
Author-X-Name-First: Satu
Author-X-Name-Last: Pekkarinen
Title: Understanding frugal innovation: a case study of university professionals in developed countries
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Frugal innovation will likely play an important part in the future of innovation management. In developed countries like Finland, it has attracted only meagre research attention thus far, but global interest in the concept is increasing quite rapidly. The study focuses on how frugal innovation is understood among developed countries’ professionals and nascent professionals in a technical university setting. The study aims to contribute to an improved understanding of and readiness for frugal innovation in developed countries. Improved readiness for frugal innovation is necessary to realize the full potential of the concept. Frugal innovation shall be included as an element of the research agendas and teaching in developed countries.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 25-40
Issue: 1
Volume: 9
Year: 2019
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2018.1437687
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Author-Name: Andrea Jiménez
Author-X-Name-First: Andrea
Author-X-Name-Last: Jiménez
Title: Inclusive innovation from the lenses of situated agency: insights from innovation hubs in the UK and Zambia
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Inclusive innovation has been criticized for not being theoretically strong and remaining as a ‘catch-all-ideas’ concept. In this paper, it is argued the concept has failed to take into account how structures of disadvantage may exclude individuals. This is addressed by introducing the concept of situated agency through the lenses of intersectionality to better understand the process of exclusion or inclusion experienced by people. The paper draws on empirical evidence from two innovation hubs in the UK and Zambia to see in what ways they represent inclusive spaces for women entrepreneurs. Interpretive research methods including semi-structured interviews and participant observation are used to understand how these women are evaluating their work and experience at the hub. Findings include that while female members of the hub attribute discrimination primarily to their gender, other intersecting identities are also determinates. As such, while some hubs can provide a more inclusive space, they can also reproduce and reinforce the gender inequalities present in the wider societal context. This has implications for inclusive innovation, that while temporarily tempering institutional and contextual constraints, what is required is a broader structural and contextual approach.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 41-64
Issue: 1
Volume: 9
Year: 2019
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2018.1445412
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Author-Name: Yan Yang
Author-X-Name-First: Yan
Author-X-Name-Last: Yang
Author-Name: Henry Etzkowitz
Author-X-Name-First: Henry
Author-X-Name-Last: Etzkowitz
Author-Name: Shoujun Yin
Author-X-Name-First: Shoujun
Author-X-Name-Last: Yin
Author-Name: Yihong Luo
Author-X-Name-First: Yihong
Author-X-Name-Last: Luo
Title: Dynamics of triple helix relations in the development of cleaner technologies: case of a Chinese power equipment manufacturer
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This paper analyses the 60-year-long dynamics of triple helix relations in the development of cleaner power generation technologies of a large state-owned Chinese power equipment manufacturer. It opens the black box of the firm and provides a whole picture of the firm's triple helix relations and the changes in the process. It addresses two research questions: How did the triple helix relations of the case firm evolve over the different stages of technology development? What's the special role of government in the evolution of triple helix relations in China? A heterodox top-down ‘coordinated’ model of triple helix relations is identified.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 65-84
Issue: 1
Volume: 9
Year: 2019
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2018.1463095
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Author-Name: Damodaran Appukuttan Nair
Author-X-Name-First: Damodaran
Author-X-Name-Last: Appukuttan Nair
Title: The bitcoin innovation, crypto currencies and the Leviathan
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The advent of crypto currencies like bitcoins has raised questions about the continuing relevance of fiat money and centralized financial institutions run by Leviathan States. Bitcoin is a crypto-currency engendered by new computation technology which relies on a distributed network of peer-to-peer computing agents referred to as ‘miners’. These agents earn bitcoins by successfully settling and securing economic transactions in electronic ledgers called blocks. Successive blocks are stringed together to form blockchains. This radically different world of alternative currencies heralds a change that leaves Leviathans nonplussed for four reasons. First, bitcoin miners, who function as neo-Spinozian multitudes, squarely challenge the prerogative of the State to issue fiat money. Second, these distributed communities usher in a new philosophy of time in order to measure their mining efforts objectively. Third, these communities change the existing state of affairs by linking bitcoin earnings to ‘proof of work’. The fourth contribution of this unique community lies in the ideas of consensus they embrace. However, in recent times, crypto currency miners, who are forced to ramp up their mining operations, are constrained to depend on the world of fiat money in order to mobilize resources. What was primarily designed as a digital means of payment has turned into a speculative asset undermining its ability to replace fiat money. This paper argues that the future of distributed networks will depend on whether they can obviate their pernicious dependence on the Leviathan by adopting rigorous codes of conduct for conducting their operations both autonomously and more sustainably.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 85-103
Issue: 1
Volume: 9
Year: 2019
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2018.1502249
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Author-Name: Hakan Mihci
Author-X-Name-First: Hakan
Author-X-Name-Last: Mihci
Title: Social innovation: a conceptual survey and implications for development studies
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This paper mainly concerns with the literature survey on the concept of social innovation. Numerous attempts from various academic disciplines are reviewed to identify the current meaning of the concept. However, the findings suggest that widespread ambiguities and vagueness dominate the literature, and it is hard to reach a common acceptable definition for the social innovation. The paper further argues that distinguishing the term social innovation from technological innovation has a potential to clarify the content, meaning and policy implications of it. The paper finally claims that considering fragmented discussion topics in the field of social innovation, development studies may play a consolidative role to elaborate and moderate theoretical analyzes and policy suggestions connected with the social innovation. In this context, the field of human development seems to be a more favourable area for possible future contributions.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 105-123
Issue: 1
Volume: 9
Year: 2019
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2018.1522064
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Author-Name: Yetunde A. Aluko
Author-X-Name-First: Yetunde A.
Author-X-Name-Last: Aluko
Author-Name: Oluwakemi Okuwa
Author-X-Name-First: Oluwakemi
Author-X-Name-Last: Okuwa
Title: Innovation for inclusive development among specialized universities: the case of a community-based farming scheme in FUNAAB
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This paper presents an analysis of how a specialized university in its pursuit of community engagement interacts with external social partners, especially marginalized communities, taking the case of community-based farming scheme in the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta to promote innovation for inclusive development. The methodological approach to the study relies on case study analysis using in-depth interviews of senior management, principal officers and students of the university, and community leaders. Purposive sampling technique was adopted. Findings revealed that the major drivers of interaction for the university are primarily a mixture of social and intellectual imperatives, while from the community's point of view, the main drivers of interaction are poverty alleviation, infrastructural development, access to knowledge, training and economic development. The study concludes that this is a case of interaction that improves the livelihoods of marginalized rural farming communities, and can thus promote inclusive development.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 125-140
Issue: 1
Volume: 9
Year: 2019
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2018.1525809
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Author-Name: Theo Papaioannou
Author-X-Name-First: Theo
Author-X-Name-Last: Papaioannou
Author-Name: Smita Srinivas
Author-X-Name-First: Smita
Author-X-Name-Last: Srinivas
Title: Innovation as a political process of development: are neo-Schumpeterians value neutral?
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Technological innovation has been one of the fastest growing areas of economics scholarship and one where history and philosophy have played important roles. Since the reconstruction of Joseph Schumpeter’s view of innovation as a driver of capitalist development and the subsequent formation of the national innovation systems (NIS) theory in the early 1990s that can be described as neo-Schumpeterian, there has been a continuous attempt to explain innovation in social-scientific terms. However, much of this has positioned innovation as a value-neutral process. We argue that such value-neutrality requires closer analysis because the neo-Schumpeterian thinkers do appear to acknowledge that capitalism itself is an uneven, dynamic process. The relationship between the vital dynamism of such analysis of technological change and the context of its description of power relations and value deserves further attention. Under what conditions can systemic interactions between institutions and actors function as universal frameworks? Can the theory of innovation be abstracted from its social and political bases? This paper aims to redefine innovation as a predominately political process that is both historical and contextual, and thus draw out its implications for economics and development. The paper suggests some preliminary steps toward a more critical approach to innovation scholarship.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 141-158
Issue: 1
Volume: 9
Year: 2019
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2018.1535872
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Author-Name: Keshab Das
Author-X-Name-First: Keshab
Author-X-Name-Last: Das
Author-Name: Nonita Tumulak Yap
Author-X-Name-First: Nonita Tumulak
Author-X-Name-Last: Yap
Title: Dunking the dust: innovation diffusion, informality and policy opportunities in a stone crushing cluster, India
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This paper explores the barriers to the diffusion of environmental innovation among informal enterprises with a stone crushing cluster in Odisha as a case study. The huge dust cloud resulting from the crushing process has polluted the air and settled on farmlands and homesteads in the surrounding region. This has been associated with farm productivity decline, road accidents, school drop-outs, out-migration and various ailments. The use of water sprinklers as an environmental innovation has been the major response of the state pollution control authorities. Few have complied. The barriers are examined drawing upon interviews with 50 enterprises and various stakeholders and review of secondary sources. Absence of community pressure in the cluster, pecuniary gains of informality, and dysfunctional institutional arrangements appear to leave businesses with little incentive to reduce their burden on workers’ health, the environment and the community. However, experiences in other developing countries suggest there are policy opportunities for overcoming these barriers.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 1-19
Issue: 1
Volume: 10
Year: 2020
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2018.1557420
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Author-Name: Dejene Mamo Bekana
Author-X-Name-First: Dejene Mamo
Author-X-Name-Last: Bekana
Title: Does governance quality promote innovation in sub-Saharan Africa? An empirical study across 37 countries
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This inquiry examines the effect of quality of governance institutions on innovation in 37 sub-Saharan African countries for the period 1996–2016. The empirical analysis followed the instrumental variables regression technique. The motivation for using this estimation technique is to provide special focus to the issue of endogeneity by estimating IV general methods of moment’s model. The following general findings are presented. First, governance quality does, in fact, appear to promote innovativeness. Second, for all governance indicators, the effect of the quality of governance institutions follows two channels: directly and indirectly through its positive impact on human capital development. The empirical findings suggest that countries with better quality of governance infrastructure are able to promote innovation in better ways. That is, the results do support theories that argue in favour of the development of governance quality and the improvement of human capital infrastructure to foster the national innovation system. These results are found to be robust across alternative empirical specifications tested.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 21-44
Issue: 1
Volume: 10
Year: 2020
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2018.1562603
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Author-Name: Ibrahim Alnafrah
Author-X-Name-First: Ibrahim
Author-X-Name-Last: Alnafrah
Author-Name: Bassel Zeno
Author-X-Name-First: Bassel
Author-X-Name-Last: Zeno
Title: A new comparative model for national innovation systems based on machine learning classification techniques
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This study aims to cluster and classify national innovation systems (NISs) dynamically based on analysing the structural differences among NISs’ dimensions. This study provides a tool that will help policymakers monitor the process of building and development NIS.Regarding the methodology, machine learning classification and clustering techniques were used, in which clusters represent three level of development: high, medium and low NISs’ clusters.The empirical study includes 36 indicators from 54 countries over 29 years (1980–2008), which are divided into six groups, that represent the different NISs’ dimensions.The results of clustering show a high level of similarity between clusters and the economic and innovation reality in studied countries. Moreover, the results of classification models indicate a high level of accuracy. These models are considered a good tool for monitoring the development process of NIS and enabling policymakers to improve their innovation strategies to accelerate NIS’s development process.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 45-66
Issue: 1
Volume: 10
Year: 2020
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2018.1564124
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Author-Name: Ann Njoki Kingiri
Author-X-Name-First: Ann Njoki
Author-X-Name-Last: Kingiri
Author-Name: Xiaolan Fu
Author-X-Name-First: Xiaolan
Author-X-Name-Last: Fu
Title: Understanding the diffusion and adoption of digital finance innovation in emerging economies: M-Pesa money mobile transfer service in Kenya
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The growth of digital financial innovations in emerging economies varies across countries with Kenya’s mobile money transactions leading in Africa. Empirical evidence is lacking to describe from a system perspective the major factors attributing to this. Among the major money mobile transfer innovations, M-Pesa has recorded a tremendous impact since its launch in 2007. Consequently, this paper uses M-Pesa as a case study to understand the determinants of the success of digital financial innovations in an emerging economy. The analysis is applied at the level of technological innovation system (TIS), a framework that has provided useful insights into the functions that need to be stimulated for the successful deployment of innovative technologies. The analysis exposes key systemic functions that characterize M-Pesa rapid diffusion in Kenya. The study finds that TIS framework can be applied to explain the diffusion and uptake of a new technology. However, local adaptation process attracts critical coordination aspects, significant learning and localized capabilities attributed to M-Pesa rapid expansion. These aspects are not explicitly articulated in the TIS literature. The study concludes with policy recommendations towards stimulation of key functions that may support diffusion of digital financial innovations in emerging economies.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 67-87
Issue: 1
Volume: 10
Year: 2020
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2019.1570695
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Author-Name: Martín Obaya
Author-X-Name-First: Martín
Author-X-Name-Last: Obaya
Author-Name: Verónica Robert
Author-X-Name-First: Verónica
Author-X-Name-Last: Robert
Author-Name: Octavio Lerena
Author-X-Name-First: Octavio
Author-X-Name-Last: Lerena
Author-Name: Gabriel Yoguel
Author-X-Name-First: Gabriel
Author-X-Name-Last: Yoguel
Title: Dynamic capabilities in the software and information services industry. A case-study analysis in Argentina from a business model perspective
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This study explores the relation between the strategies and business models (BM) configurations and the capability-augmenting efforts pursued software and information services (SIS). Through a multiple case-study research design, examining four SIS firms operating in Argentina, it seeks to understand, in particular, the nature of the dynamic capabilities (DC) developed by these firms, i.e. their ability to integrate, reconfigure and enlarge their base of strategic resources and ordinary capabilities. The findings of the study shed light on the two-way relation between the components of the BM and the nature DC. In the case of standardized product-oriented strategies, firms privilege integrating ‘sense’ DC to grasp market's needs and demands with ‘seize’ DC to develop products able to exploit commercialization opportunities. In service-oriented strategies, ‘sense’ DC are focused on the identification of the features among the wide variety of customers’ demands which are scalable. Whereas ‘seize’ DC are rather focused on project management skills to integrate the architectures and accumulated reusable pieces of codes with capabilities to continuous improvement processes.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 89-116
Issue: 1
Volume: 10
Year: 2020
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2019.1572098
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Author-Name: Edward van der Merwe
Author-X-Name-First: Edward
Author-X-Name-Last: van der Merwe
Author-Name: Sara Grobbelaar
Author-X-Name-First: Sara
Author-X-Name-Last: Grobbelaar
Author-Name: Wouter Bam
Author-X-Name-First: Wouter
Author-X-Name-Last: Bam
Title: Exploring the functional dynamics of innovation for inclusive development innovation systems: a case study of a large scale maternal mHealth project in South Africa
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In the developing country healthcare context, inequalities often exist due to systematic exclusions through poverty, unemployment, poor infrastructure and lack of access. This article reflects on the use of an Innovation for Inclusive Development Systems approach within a healthcare context to systematically (i) evaluate the dynamic factors that drive inclusion and exclusion in healthcare innovation systems; and (ii) support policymakers to arrive at interventions that may lead to more inclusively orientated healthcare projects. The study inductively develops a set of exploratory questions for considering the functions of Innovation for Inclusive Development Systems. The framework is inductively developed from the MomConnect project in South Africa (a maternal mHealth initiative). The authors conclude that the developed exploratory questions provide guidance for similar projects in the future to be more inclusive, particularly so in the complex field of healthcare where a systems perspective towards inclusive healthcare is required.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 117-138
Issue: 1
Volume: 10
Year: 2020
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2019.1567884
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Author-Name: Claudia Pavani
Author-X-Name-First: Claudia
Author-X-Name-Last: Pavani
Author-Name: Guilherme Ary Plonski
Author-X-Name-First: Guilherme Ary
Author-X-Name-Last: Plonski
Title: Opening new pathways for innovation in healthcare
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Is open innovation an appropriate strategy to promote innovation through Public Health Research Institutes (PHRIs) in developing countries? The goal of this article is to evaluate the effectiveness of the strategy. PHRIs in developing countries confront a variety of problems, from the need to adapt to the speed of technological innovation to insufficient technical teams and inadequate capacity caused by budget cuts and bureaucratic constraints. The article presents a case study of an open innovation initiative in a Brazilian PHRI as a strategic approach to catalyze innovation processes. This action research showed that the open innovation approach benefits innovation processes in public health in a developing country. However, if practices are merely transposed from successes in the entrepreneurial sector, for which it was originally conceived, there is significant risk of rejection from the metaphorical ‘antibodies’ in PHRIs. The open innovation approach should be treated as a continuous, rather than discrete, solution when dealing with public sector attempts to engage in innovation. The article presents aspects that need special care in order to exploit the potential for open innovation and mitigate the risk of rejection.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 139-153
Issue: 1
Volume: 10
Year: 2020
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2019.1567901
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Author-Name: Alexis Habiyaremye
Author-X-Name-First: Alexis
Author-X-Name-Last: Habiyaremye
Author-Name: Glenda Kruss
Author-X-Name-First: Glenda
Author-X-Name-Last: Kruss
Author-Name: Irma Booyens
Author-X-Name-First: Irma
Author-X-Name-Last: Booyens
Title: Innovation for inclusive rural transformation: the role of the state
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Innovation is increasingly recognized as a potent policy tool for addressing the structural problems that characterize poverty in marginalized rural communities. In what ways should governments in developing countries be involved in supporting innovation to achieve inclusive development objectives? This special issue brings together key insights from different facets of rural transformation programmes in the global South, with the view to shed light on the nature and outcomes of state involvement. The contributions to this volume highlight three domains in which the state plays a pivotal role in spurring inclusive rural transformation: promoting agricultural innovation in Algeria and Vietnam, supporting rural capacity building in South Africa and Peru, and the provision of pro-poor innovations for rural social development in India and Argentina. In all three domains, government support coupled with greater participation of local community members in the planning and implementation of innovative projects proved to produce greater potential for success. The contributions also emphasize the pivotal role that the state must play in supporting local capability building and bridging knowledge gaps between innovation producers and rural user communities, in order to facilitate local absorption of external technological solutions.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 155-168
Issue: 2
Volume: 10
Year: 2020
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2019.1596368
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Author-Name: Montserrat López Jerez
Author-X-Name-First: Montserrat
Author-X-Name-Last: López Jerez
Title: The rural transformation of the two rice bowls of Vietnam: the making of a new Asian miracle economy?
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This paper assesses the factors driving inclusiveness in Vietnam's rural transformation by comparing the two rice deltas of the country since reunification in 1975. In order to achieve this, a pro-poor institutional development approach based on Adelman is applied. We focus on asset-oriented, demand-generating and price-increasing interventions. Our findings point out that the experienced growth might be considered inclusive, but the dynamics of poverty reduction, income generation, and productivity-enhancement are substantially different in the two delta economies. This might have implications for the prospects of Vietnam's continuation in a ‘growth with equity’ model, if policies and innovations are not locally adjusted.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 169-186
Issue: 2
Volume: 10
Year: 2020
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2019.1580939
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Author-Name: Abdelkader Djeflat
Author-X-Name-First: Abdelkader
Author-X-Name-Last: Djeflat
Title: Transforming Algeria's rural areas through STI and the knowledge economy: the proximity programme for integrated rural development (PPDRI)
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To accelerate rural development, the Algerian state has decided on a major programme, the Rural Renewal Programme. One of its main implementation instruments was the Proximity Programme for Integrated Rural Development (PPDRI) consisting of hundreds of outreach projects expected to help rural populations strengthen their basic economic activities. The new combined Science, Technology and Innovation and Knowledge-Based Economy policy (STI-KBE) was put forward by the Development State (DS) ambitioned to support this programme and make it more participatory and inclusive. Our paper addresses four key questions: (i) How does the STI-KBE policy connect with the PPDRI; (ii) What was the role of the developmental state in supporting this programme? (iii) What was the level of participation by rural populations? and (iv) What were the obstacles met in its implementation? To answer these questions, five case studies drawn from the literature were analysed in five Willayas (prefectures) of the country, in addition to the participant observation methodology adopted. Examining the PPDRI through the lens of STI-KBE policy has never been used before and represents our main added value. This is on top of revisiting the original KBE model when applied to rural development, to inform the strategies of the developmental state.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 187-206
Issue: 2
Volume: 10
Year: 2020
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2019.1580941
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Author-Name: Alexis Habiyaremye
Author-X-Name-First: Alexis
Author-X-Name-Last: Habiyaremye
Title: Knowledge exchange and innovation co-creation in living labs projects in South Africa
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The purpose of this paper is to explore how the co-learning methodology, inherent in the Living Labs approach, has been deployed to stimulate knowledge exchange and absorption in marginalised rural communities in South Africa and empower them to participate in the innovation process. Having one of the world's highest rates of income and wealth inequality, South African has sought to harness the power of knowledge and rural innovation as a means to foster its structural transformation. The knowledge asymmetry between specialised knowledge producers and the impoverished target users has however hindered the necessary knowledge exchange for the diffusion of technological solutions in the marginalised rural and peri-urban communities. In order to overcome the constraints of this knowledge asymmetry, the government supported user capacity building with the Living Labs approach for tackling rural community challenges with innovative solutions. This paper uses three examples of successful innovation co-creation to illustrate how transformative change can be achieved through co-learning between living labs researchers and user communities. The corresponding experiences of knowledge-co-creation in South African Living Labs highlight the role of government support for capacity building in the co-learning approach targeted to inclusive transformation of the livelihoods of marginalised communities.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 207-222
Issue: 2
Volume: 10
Year: 2020
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2019.1580940
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Author-Name: Miklos Lukacs de Pereny
Author-X-Name-First: Miklos
Author-X-Name-Last: Lukacs de Pereny
Author-Name: Ronnie Ramlogan
Author-X-Name-First: Ronnie
Author-X-Name-Last: Ramlogan
Author-Name: Marcela Miozzo
Author-X-Name-First: Marcela
Author-X-Name-Last: Miozzo
Title: Standardization and segmented governance in the Peruvian alpaca fibre value chain
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This article builds on and extends Global Value Chain theory through an examination of governance dynamics in the Peruvian alpaca fibre chain in the context of state-sponsored standardization during the period 1997–2013. We propose a Segmented Governance Model (SGM) showing a fragmented-concentrated supply–demand structure to describe and explain how micro and meso-scale interactions configure chain governance. The SGM allows a move beyond the traditional upstream–downstream analysis to accommodate the horizontal mobility of suppliers and buyers at pre-export segments of the chain. Findings show how mixed governance modes co-exist within and between segments and explain why convergence towards a coherent overall market governance does not occur as standardization unfolds. We suggest further studies applying the SGM to better explain national governance dynamics in commodity chains towards inclusive and sustainable engagement in global markets.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 223-244
Issue: 2
Volume: 10
Year: 2020
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2019.1580937
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Author-Name: Shyama V. Ramani
Author-X-Name-First: Shyama V.
Author-X-Name-Last: Ramani
Title: On consortium driven sanitation interventions to end open defecation: insights from an Indian village study
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Under the present global agenda of striving to attain the Sustainable Development Goals (or SDGs), it is necessary to reinforce the diffusion and adoption of inclusive innovations like toilets. SDG6 has created business opportunities for private actors to contribute to sanitation coverage in novel consortia involving public agencies, private actors, international bodies and social enterprises. Can there be tension between the pursuit of public welfare and private interests in such consortia? If so, how can they be managed to eliminate open defecation? To contribute to answering these questions, we study the evolution of sanitation coverage in Kameshwaram village in India via interventions by two consortia and their impact in the short and medium terms. Our case study highlights five sources of challenges: disconnect with evaluation of innovation by beneficiary, partner risks, stakeholder risks, systemic risks and missing institutions. Private incentives can be aligned for social welfare, only if payoffs to consortium actors are based not only on the attainment of implementation targets, but also on the impact produced. Thus, incentive design must only reward toilet installations that are of quality construction, safe, functional, long-lasting and being used.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 245-261
Issue: 2
Volume: 10
Year: 2020
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2019.1580934
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Author-Name: María Schmukler
Author-X-Name-First: María
Author-X-Name-Last: Schmukler
Title: Is local adequacy of technology a pathway towards social inclusion? The challenges of rural electrification in Argentina
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Over the last decades, a number of programmes that relied on the exploitation of renewable sources have been developed in countries of the Global South, in order to solve the situation of millions of rural inhabitants without access to electricity. In Argentina, this model was implemented since 1999 with the PERMER (Renewable Energies in Rural Markets Project) by a neoliberal government. The main source of funding, as the conditions that shaped the programme, were provided and established – mostly – by the World Bank. In 2001, the country faced an important crisis; therefore the Project had to develop a process of socio-technical adequacy in order to resolve the unexpected problems regarding the new scenario. Focusing on the limits and scopes of the PERMER case, this paper aims to analyse how different governments (with neoliberal or developmental goals) and multinational organizations have addressed the rural electrification problem, by proposing a solution based on a closed package and universal technology. Finally, the notion of inclusion proposed by the Worlds Bank’s model of rural electrification is questioned, suggesting another question: can local adequacy be a way of achieving situated innovation and social inclusion?
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 263-278
Issue: 2
Volume: 10
Year: 2020
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2019.1580942
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Author-Name: Radeef Chundakkadan
Author-X-Name-First: Radeef
Author-X-Name-Last: Chundakkadan
Author-Name: Subash Sasidharan
Author-X-Name-First: Subash
Author-X-Name-Last: Sasidharan
Title: Financial constraints, government support, and firm innovation: empirical evidence from developing economies
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The aim of this paper is two-fold. First, we empirically investigate the role of financial constraints on innovation activities. Second, we examine the significance of non-financial support provided by government on firm innovation. We employ firm-level survey data over the period 2006–2017 for 100 countries. Based on the direct indicators of financial constraints, different estimation methods and addressing the endogeneity concerns, we document that financial constraints have a significant negative impact on firms’ innovation activities. Further, we find a positive correlation between government support and the innovative activities of small-medium enterprises; and the impact is more pronounced in the case of financially unconstrained firms.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 279-301
Issue: 3
Volume: 10
Year: 2020
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2019.1594680
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Author-Name: Kritsada Patluang
Author-X-Name-First: Kritsada
Author-X-Name-Last: Patluang
Title: ‘Hidden’ innovation development through inherent and support social capitals: an experimentation in rural tourism
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This paper focuses on ‘hidden’ innovation development in rural tourism propelled by combinations of social capitals. Based on questionnaire data of 147 tourism community enterprises across Thailand, findings disclose three hidden innovations – marketing, supporting process and organizational innovations – which assist the enterprises in commercializing new products and sustaining their competitiveness in new markets. The paper employs factor and hierarchical regression analyses to investigate the effects of types of social capital on the hidden innovations. The newly categorized ‘inherent social capital’, encompassing levels of collaboration among members and of utilization of business and information networks, breeds marketing and supporting process innovations. The ‘national support social capital’, embracing degrees of research network utilization and of acquaintance/participation with national development agencies/associations, spawns the three innovations. Policy implications are that social capitals are crucial for broadening the non-technological innovation landscape and that matched categories of social capital are required for augmenting specific types of innovation.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 303-321
Issue: 3
Volume: 10
Year: 2020
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2019.1598645
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Author-Name: Claudia De Fuentes
Author-X-Name-First: Claudia
Author-X-Name-Last: De Fuentes
Author-Name: Gabriela Dutrénit
Author-X-Name-First: Gabriela
Author-X-Name-Last: Dutrénit
Author-Name: Natalia Gras
Author-X-Name-First: Natalia
Author-X-Name-Last: Gras
Author-Name: Fernando Santiago
Author-X-Name-First: Fernando
Author-X-Name-Last: Santiago
Title: Determinants of innovation and productivity across manufacturing and services sectors: micro evidence from Mexico
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This paper presents an analysis of the determinants of innovation activities, and its effect on output and productivity across manufacturing and services firms in Mexico. We build on the theoretical framework of synthesis approach and contribute to identify the main differences of innovation intensity and its effects across four sectoral groups with different learning modes. Based on data from the 2010 Mexican innovation survey, our results show important differences across sectors and indicate that more dynamic services firms have similar innovation patterns to those in manufacturing. In terms of policy implications, this study highlights the importance of promoting innovation as the basis for improved productivity of firms in Mexico differentiating by sectors. More specifically, policy interventions need to enhance both the number of firms that perform innovation, and the intensity of those innovation activities.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 323-345
Issue: 3
Volume: 10
Year: 2020
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2019.1622248
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Author-Name: Ebrahim Souzanchi Kashani
Author-X-Name-First: Ebrahim
Author-X-Name-Last: Souzanchi Kashani
Title: Linking institutions and technical changes in a developing context: historical evidence from Iran
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The roles of institutions in blocking successful technological changes are the prime concerns of this paper. A mixed framework is developed for this purpose based on concepts from national innovation systems (NIS), New Institutional Economics (NIE), and some sociological perspectives to policy and technology. In particular, this study shows how the institutional environment, called civic epistemology in this study, has framed the experience of industrialization in Iran through setting specific rules and regulations that in turn hindered technological learning. The general perception to the world (assumptions about the system), apprehension of the process of industrialization (assumptions about the problem), and comprehension of technology (assumptions about the solutions) are the constitutional elements of civic epistemology. They have framed the industrial regulations of the country to remove all barriers of machinery imports, stabilize the rate of currency exchange, allocate revenues of oil exports to such imports, and protect the local market through applying high tariffs for imported goods. Hence, more work at the cognitive level is required to complete the application of NIS in the context of developing countries. Some implications are discussed at the end.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 347-371
Issue: 3
Volume: 10
Year: 2020
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2019.1647614
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Author-Name: Nahom Ghebrihiwet
Author-X-Name-First: Nahom
Author-X-Name-Last: Ghebrihiwet
Title: Foreign direct investment and industry-science R&D cooperation: the case of South Africa
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We use the South African National Innovation Survey to analyse the firm and industry characteristics that determine R&D collaboration with knowledge institutions. Besides examining the complementarity among innovation activities, we particularly focus on the complementarity between R&D collaboration and the internationalization of production. Consistent with the asset exploiting motive for outward FDI, we find that firms that established a subsidiary abroad are more likely to engage in cooperative research agreements with universities or public research organizations. Hence, inducing domestic firms to enter into foreign markets will enhance R&D cooperation with knowledge institutions in the home country. Furthermore, R&D collaboration is a complementary innovation strategy to the use of publicly available information and to engaging in cooperative research agreements with suppliers or customers. We also find that firms providing knowledge-intensive services such as (medical) R&D, ICT, and engineering services and firms in the chemical industry are more likely to engage in cooperative research agreements with knowledge institutions. Finally, in contrast to findings from studies in more advanced countries, we find that appropriability concerns may form a barrier preventing R&D collaboration with scientific organizations. Hence, improvements in the protection of intellectual property rights may foster industry-science R&D partnerships.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 373-394
Issue: 3
Volume: 10
Year: 2020
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2019.1662570
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Author-Name: Aasheerwad Dwivedi
Author-X-Name-First: Aasheerwad
Author-X-Name-Last: Dwivedi
Author-Name: Aakanksha Arora
Author-X-Name-First: Aakanksha
Author-X-Name-Last: Arora
Title: Economic geography of innovation in India: an empirical investigation
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Theory points toward geographical clustering of economic activity as an important determinant of innovation. A stylized fact about the Indian economy is the geographic concentration of both economic activity and innovation. The paper first analyses the spatial pattern of patent applications across Indian districts. Considering innovation to be a complex and collaborative process, this paper investigates the relevance of economic geography for innovation for all Indian districts. We estimate agglomeration economies by creating Herfindahl index, localization index and Access index for all districts. Using the count data model, we estimate the effect of agglomeration economies, knowledge spillovers along with other variables including R&D expenditure, human capital, institution and infrastructure in creating innovation. The results show a strong and statistically significant effect of the agglomeration variables on innovative activity in a district. R&D expenditures in own district and neighbouring districts also have a positive relationship with the number of patent applications. Moreover, institutions, infrastructure and local socio-economic conditions do matter for innovative activity.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 395-412
Issue: 3
Volume: 10
Year: 2020
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2019.1679952
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Author-Name: SungWoong Hwang
Author-X-Name-First: SungWoong
Author-X-Name-Last: Hwang
Title: Traditional medicine, modern science and the upgrading of the local pharmaceutical industry: endogenous development of the phytomedicine innovation system in Korea
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This study examines the opportunities to upgrade the Korean pharmaceutical industry from imitation to innovation through the development of phytomedicine. Phytomedicines are modern drugs developed by scientifying traditional medicines which have been an overlooked source of knowledge for innovation in studies on latecomers’ industrial development. This study illustrates the emergence of phytomedicine in Korea in view of the sectoral innovation system and the global value chain. It determines the technological and socio-economic conditions for the development of the new phytomedicine sector and discusses its role in upgrading the local pharmaceutical industry. The findings highlight that phytomedicine development provides an alternative path for continuing incremental innovation, which is still a common practice of most latecomers’ industrial development. For latecomers’ pharmaceutical industries, incremental innovation has been regarded as being increasingly difficult to adopt due to the large technological and marketing gap between generic drugs and innovative patented drugs.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 413-431
Issue: 3
Volume: 10
Year: 2020
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2019.1679953
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Author-Name: K. R. Shanmugam
Author-X-Name-First: K. R.
Author-X-Name-Last: Shanmugam
Author-Name: Rakesh Nigam
Author-X-Name-First: Rakesh
Author-X-Name-Last: Nigam
Title: Impact of technology on the financial performance of Indian commercial banks: a clustering based approach
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This study empirically analyses the impact of technology on the financial performance of 50 banks in India during a six year period from 2011–12 to 2016–17. It applies the Kmeans algorithm, a popular machine learning method to cluster the banks, and develops a novel geometrical representation called the technology performance square, formed by lines of constant performance and technology to relate banks in different states of technology and performance. It also tracks the movement of banks across the different states during the six year period. Results imply that technology has a positive impact on the performance of only 3–9 banks over the six year period, while the most of the other banks are clustered in the low technology and low performance state, showing no impact of technology on financial performance of these banks. The reason could be that with the passage of time, technology becomes cheaper and almost all the banks acquire technology, and there is not much distinction among the banks when it comes to technology.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 433-449
Issue: 3
Volume: 10
Year: 2020
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2019.1685792
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Author-Name: Arup Mitra
Author-X-Name-First: Arup
Author-X-Name-Last: Mitra
Title: Technological progress, innovation and employment: firm-level evidence from India’s manufacturing sector
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In an attempt to assess the impact of technology and innovation on employment this paper, based on Indian firm-level data, considers TFPG/technical efficiency and research and development expenditure as two key variables. Relating to TFPG or TE, findings are not indicative of any major decline in employment except in one or two industries. Turning to R&D expenditure, three industries showed a positive effect on employment to sales ratio and it is only one industry for which a negative and significant coefficient is estimated. Hence, it may be erroneous to conclude that the new technology or innovation is geared to cause job loss. Though no large scale evidence is available in favour of net employment gains, labour utilization rate is also not seen to be a negative function of innovation. Domestic innovation may be pursued to develop appropriate technology and the employment potential can be explored in a number of areas.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 451-465
Issue: 3
Volume: 10
Year: 2020
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2019.1689614
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Title: Statement of Retraction: Financial inclusion, economic growth and mobile telephony in India: analysing the nexus
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 467-467
Issue: 3
Volume: 10
Year: 2020
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2019.1628334
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Author-Name: Saibal Ghosh
Author-X-Name-First: Saibal
Author-X-Name-Last: Ghosh
Title: RETRACTED ARTICLE: Financial inclusion, economic growth and mobile telephony in India: analysing the nexus
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: I-XXIII
Issue: 3
Volume: 10
Year: 2020
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2019.1570623
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Author-Name: Amrita Chatterjee
Author-X-Name-First: Amrita
Author-X-Name-Last: Chatterjee
Author-Name: Simontini Das
Author-X-Name-First: Simontini
Author-X-Name-Last: Das
Title: Information communication technology diffusion and financial inclusion: an inter-state analysis for India
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The paper investigates the impact of ICT (information communication technology) diffusion on the financial inclusion across 16 Indian states during the time period 2007–2008 to 2014–2015. Tele-density, usage of mobile phones and internet connectivity can improve the accessibility, reduce the transaction cost and travel cost of the commercial banking sector. This increases the access of institutional credit, products and services to marginalized unbanked population of society. Inter-state comparison reveals the fact that there are disparities in the spread of ICTdiffusion and financial inclusion across the regions and these disparities are persistent in nature. ICT diffusion index is consistently high in Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka, whereas low in Assam, Bihar Uttar Pradesh, Orissa and Madhya Pradesh. Dynamic panel data analysis exhibits that ICT index has a strong positive significant impact on financial inclusion index. It also illustrates that lack of education, age composition of population, rural-urban location, poor status of financial literacy play a very vital role in spreading financial inclusion. The elderly people in rural as well as in urban areas are still not that familiar with mobile and internet, they may not be able to get benefited by ICT revolution.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 1-23
Issue: 1
Volume: 11
Year: 2021
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2019.1678803
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Author-Name: Isabel Álvarez
Author-X-Name-First: Isabel
Author-X-Name-Last: Álvarez
Author-Name: Hernán Alejandro Morero
Author-X-Name-First: Hernán Alejandro
Author-X-Name-Last: Morero
Author-Name: Pablo Arnaldo Ortiz
Author-X-Name-First: Pablo Arnaldo
Author-X-Name-Last: Ortiz
Title: Complementarities between knowledge sources for innovation: an analysis of production networks in Argentina
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These days, innovation increasingly requires a combination of internal and external sources of knowledge. The relative importance of each may differ, according to the characteristics of the production networks in which firms are involved, and according to the local context. This paper contributes to explaining the relative importance of the various linkages that provide access to knowledge sources in specific contexts. It is argued that internationalization is part of the geography of those linkages, as well as a main driver of production networks, while the connections within domestic systems are not negligible in improving firms’ innovation results in some contexts (such as those found in emerging economies). Tests around complementarity, applied to cross-sectional firm-level data on automotive and iron/steel networks in Argentina, reveal that instead of acting as substitutes, significant complementarities do exist between internal and external sources of knowledge. Meanwhile, the relevance of foreign sources cannot be absolutely confirmed as determinant in this specific context.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 25-47
Issue: 1
Volume: 11
Year: 2021
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2020.1718344
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Author-Name: Paula Quiroz-Rojas
Author-X-Name-First: Paula
Author-X-Name-Last: Quiroz-Rojas
Author-Name: Mercedes Teruel
Author-X-Name-First: Mercedes
Author-X-Name-Last: Teruel
Title: Does gender matter for innovative and non-innovative firms’ growth? An empirical analysis of Chilean managers
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Firm growth has been a focus of attention for a large number of studies. However, the influence of a firm’s manager is still absent from many of these analyses. Departing from the data of the Longitudinal Survey of Businesses from Chile, the aim of this article is to analyse the relationship between innovation and firm growth depending on the sex of the leader between 2007 and 2015. Applying econometric models of quantiles with fixed effects, the results reveal that there is a positive relationship between innovation, firms led by women and sales growth. In particular, male managers exert a negative impact on the firm growth. This impact is particularly more important for non-innovative firms. Finally, the growth rate increases if a female manager replaces to a male manager. Conversely, the growth rate decreases if a male manager replaces a female manager.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 49-67
Issue: 1
Volume: 11
Year: 2021
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2020.1748329
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Author-Name: Mohammed Seid Hussen
Author-X-Name-First: Mohammed Seid
Author-X-Name-Last: Hussen
Author-Name: Murat Çokgezen
Author-X-Name-First: Murat
Author-X-Name-Last: Çokgezen
Title: The impact of regional institutional quality on firm innovation: evidence from Africa
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The main aim of this study is to empirically examine the role of regional institutional quality, and compare the relative importance of three different institutional arrangements, namely regulatory quality, rule of law, and corruption, on propensity of firm innovation in African countries. To this end, we used the most recent World Bank Enterprise Survey (WBES) of firms from 19 African countries. Our empirical investigation using multilevel logistic regression has drawn three important conclusions. First, there is no significant relationship between firm-specific factors, such as age, ownership, and exporting, and firm innovation. Nonetheless, firms’ propensity to innovate is significantly determined by the size of the firm, R&D expenditures, on-the-job training (OJT), and capability of managers/owners to adopt new technologies. Second, the innovation performance of firms is significantly affected by regional institutional quality. Third, among different regional institutional arrangements, reducing corruption and maintaining rule of law appeared to matter the most for firm innovation.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 69-90
Issue: 1
Volume: 11
Year: 2021
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2020.1750143
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Author-Name: Allan Dahl Andersen
Author-X-Name-First: Allan Dahl
Author-X-Name-Last: Andersen
Author-Name: Olav Wicken
Author-X-Name-First: Olav
Author-X-Name-Last: Wicken
Title: Making sense of how the natural environment shapes innovation, industry dynamics, and sustainability challenges
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As the world moves towards the Anthropocene, it becomes increasingly important to understand how the natural environment shapes innovation, industry dynamics, and sustainability challenges. We suggest that studying innovation in natural resource based industries yields important insights. Despite the importance of innovation in and transformation of natural resource based industries for development and sustainability, the issue has received limited scholarly attention. To advance our thinking about innovation in these industries, we explore and elaborate on the notion of ‘natural resource knowledge idiosyncrasy’ which describes how heterogeneity of natural environments often generates a need for unique innovations that require development and application of in situ knowledge. We draw on theories of knowledge stickiness and user-driven innovation to conceptualize natural resource knowledge idiosyncrasy. We qualify and elaborate that conceptualization through a review of case studies. On that basis we discuss implications for innovation policy, sustainability challenges, and further research.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 91-117
Issue: 1
Volume: 11
Year: 2021
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2020.1770975
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Author-Name: Dereje Getachew Regasa
Author-X-Name-First: Dereje Getachew
Author-X-Name-Last: Regasa
Author-Name: Bekele Abraham Diro
Author-X-Name-First: Bekele Abraham
Author-X-Name-Last: Diro
Author-Name: Ephrem Dejene Tadesse
Author-X-Name-First: Ephrem Dejene
Author-X-Name-Last: Tadesse
Author-Name: Meseret Niguse Buta
Author-X-Name-First: Meseret Niguse
Author-X-Name-Last: Buta
Title: Access to financial services and innovation: firm-level data for Ethiopia
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Using World Bank’s Ethiopian Enterprise Survey round of 2011 and 2015 data from Ethiopian manufacturing and service firms, this paper identifies the effect of financial services on the innovation strategies of firms. We find a strong positive correlation between firm’s access to external finance and its innovative activities. Our preferred specification, the instrumental variable estimator, suggests that a 1% rise in external financing source in the firm’s total fund increases the propensity to innovate the firm’s operation by about 2%. In a similar spirit, credit-constrained firms have about 24% lower incidence of innovation compared to credit unconstrained firms. We find that the results are substantially robust across alternative econometric specification. The results also remain consistent for the individual components of innovation index such as product, process, organizational, marketing and R&D innovation activities.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 119-134
Issue: 1
Volume: 11
Year: 2021
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2020.1798070
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Author-Name: Mario Scerri
Author-X-Name-First: Mario
Author-X-Name-Last: Scerri
Title: The viability of systems of innovation
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The main aim of this paper is to develop the concept of viability as a general theoretical framework for the assessment of systems of innovation, defined broadly at three main levels of aggregation – the national, the sub-national and the supra-national. This paper draws out the key elements of a comprehensive theoretical framework, based on a broad version of systems of innovation, for the assessment of the state and performance of systems of innovation. This framework,which goes considerably beyond sectors directly related to science and technology,draws out the core elements of systems of innovation and is then used to develop a taxonomy of systems in terms of viability categories and thresholds.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 135-150
Issue: 1
Volume: 11
Year: 2021
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2020.1798636
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Author-Name: Ana Luísa Silva
Author-X-Name-First: Ana Luísa
Author-X-Name-Last: Silva
Title: Innovation in development cooperation: emerging trajectories and implications for inclusive sustainable development in the 21st century
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In the past twenty years, innovation has slowly, but steadily, become an important presence in development cooperation discourse and practice. The ambitious UN 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda has accelerated this trend, providing a strong framework for the main argument in favour of an innovation agenda for international development: without new ideas and innovative solutions, solving the current global development challenges will not be possible. Although this innovation-push is in line with a wider predominant view of innovation as an inherently positive force of progress, that alone does not explain when, how, and why innovation becomes a key topic in the field. This paper seeks to fill this gap in the literature, providing an initial overview of innovation in development cooperation in the post-2000s. It argues, firstly, that innovation has always been part of international development policy and practice. Secondly, it links the recent strengthening of the innovation discourse to three trends in the systemic transformation of the field: the triumph of metrics-based agendas, the ICTs and digitalization revolutions, and the role of private sector actors. It concludes by critically assessing the implications of this narrative in changing the politics of innovation towards more inclusive sustainable development policies and practices.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 151-171
Issue: 1
Volume: 11
Year: 2021
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2020.1807100
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Author-Name: Diana Suárez
Author-X-Name-First: Diana
Author-X-Name-Last: Suárez
Author-Name: Analía Erbes
Author-X-Name-First: Analía
Author-X-Name-Last: Erbes
Title: What can national innovation systems do for development?
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The objective of this paper is to reflect on the potentialities and limitations of the NIS approach to dealing with development challenges and the role of STI policy in that process. The working thesis is that the approach has conceptual limitations which work against its analytical usefulness to face development challenges, but that it still provides a useful framework for thinking in terms of STI requirements to overcome those challenges. We claim that what the NIS does and what it can do are two equally important sides of the same process of knowledge creation and application at the service of development. We explore the origins and evolution of the NIS approach and the need for a new STI policy framework in the search for conceptual tools to contribute to democratic, sustainable and equitable societies.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 243-258
Issue: 2-3
Volume: 11
Year: 2021
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2021.1935641
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Author-Name: Xiaolan Fu
Author-X-Name-First: Xiaolan
Author-X-Name-Last: Fu
Author-Name: Elvis Avenyo
Author-X-Name-First: Elvis
Author-X-Name-Last: Avenyo
Author-Name: Pervez Ghauri
Author-X-Name-First: Pervez
Author-X-Name-Last: Ghauri
Title: Digital platforms and development: a survey of the literature
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The digital economy has led to significant socio-economic transformations in all aspects of our society and livelihoods. While there is a growing literature on the effect of digital platforms on development, none consolidates the available evidence from a development perspective. In this systematic literature review, we grouped the available literature into three main themes and critically synthesize and analyse the role of digital technology and digital platforms on the development of the modern economy. To enable the inclusion of a wide array of published papers, we allowed for relevant quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods studies globally. This approach allows us to reflect on the role of digital platforms for development more broadly as well as discuss opportunities for future research.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 303-321
Issue: 2-3
Volume: 11
Year: 2021
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2021.1975361
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Author-Name: Rajah Rasiah
Author-X-Name-First: Rajah
Author-X-Name-Last: Rasiah
Author-Name: Siu Hong Wong
Author-X-Name-First: Siu Hong
Author-X-Name-Last: Wong
Title: Industrial upgrading in the semiconductor industry in East Asia
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This paper seeks to assess industrial upgrading in the semiconductor industry in East Asia. Research into 25 firms, and subsequently the entire value chain specialization of these firms, as well as the filing of patents in the United States at the aggregate country level show that special focus on technological upgrading is critical to attract or stimulate firms’ participation in frontier R&D and wafer fabrication activities. Within these categories supportive R&D in assembly and test operations can be achieved in reasonably strong Science Technology and Innovation (STI) infrastructure in particular national locations endowed with strong basic infrastructure. Only in countries where frontier semiconductor research is carried out at universities and where a strong discipline-based incentive mechanism is around, have semiconductor firms established frontier R&D and frontier wafer fabrication activities, such as in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. China has embarked on upgrading to such activities since 2017 suggesting that it could follow the same path to maturity. Consequently, the evidence shows that semiconductor manufacturing is most sticky with the highest technological sophistication in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan where the upgrading incentives and the STI infrastructure have been the most incisive, while China shows a promising movement in that direction.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 413-440
Issue: 2-3
Volume: 11
Year: 2021
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2021.1934633
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Author-Name: Jongho Lee
Author-X-Name-First: Jongho
Author-X-Name-Last: Lee
Author-Name: Keun Lee
Author-X-Name-First: Keun
Author-X-Name-Last: Lee
Title: Catching-up national innovations systems (NIS) in China and post-catching-up NIS in Korea and Taiwan: verifying the detour hypothesis and policy implications
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This study addresses the relationship between national innovation systems (NIS) and economic catch-up by latecomer economies, such as China, South Korea, and Taiwan. Contemporary China is found to also specialize in short cycle technologies, similar to Korea or Taiwan in the mid-1980s and 1990s, featuring opposite attributes from mature NIS. By contrast, Korea and Taiwan are moving away from short-cycle technologies into long cycle technologies-based sectors, and their NIS are becoming similar to those of advanced or mature NIS. Thus, this study verifies the so-called ‘detour’ hypothesis that a successful catching-up economy can follow a technological detour of first specializing in short cycle sectors and only later turning into more challenging or long cycle technology-based sectors. In addition, the linkage from such detour to economic growth performance is verified, confirming a positive relationship between moving into short cycle technologies and economic growth in China, and between going into long cycle technologies and economic growth in Korea and Taiwan for the post-catch-up stages or since the 2000s.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 387-411
Issue: 2-3
Volume: 11
Year: 2021
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2021.1932062
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Author-Name: Smita Srinivas
Author-X-Name-First: Smita
Author-X-Name-Last: Srinivas
Title: Heuristics and the microeconomics of innovation and development
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Researchers have long recognized multiple ways of innovating. However, the expositions fail to connect the microeconomics of production sets to the real-world institutional variety required to build technological capabilities and innovate. This paper argues for explicit attention to institutional variety in the heuristics used in innovation policy and practice, and analyses three such heuristics. While some types of social challenges can be addressed through formal science and industrial R&D, the most common proxies for innovation, most industrializing contexts will require changes in institutions and organizations to frame and solve local development problems. The analysis thus bridges the traditional microeconomics of production sets with innovation and development priorities.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 281-302
Issue: 2-3
Volume: 11
Year: 2021
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2021.1986894
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Author-Name: K. J. Joseph
Author-X-Name-First: K. J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Joseph
Author-Name: Kiran Kumar Kakarlapudi
Author-X-Name-First: Kiran Kumar
Author-X-Name-Last: Kakarlapudi
Author-Name: Thankom Arun
Author-X-Name-First: Thankom
Author-X-Name-Last: Arun
Title: Reconciling higher productivity with innovation paradox: mode of learning and innovation in India's manufacturing sector
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This study analyzed the factors behind the innovation paradox in developing countries using the innovation system perspective. Considering the central role of interactive learning in innovation, we analyzed the relative role of Science Technology Inovation (STI) and Doing Using Interacting (DUI) mode of learning in determining TFP and the inter-industry variation therein. The study used the firm-level panel data from India’s manufacturing sector. The results highlight the significance of interactive learning, both STI and DUI, on firm productivity. While STI mode of learning has a greater role in high-technology industries, in the case of low-technology industries DUI is more important. Despite the positive role of STI mode, DUI mode turns out to be the most widely preferred strategy. These findings suggest that innovation policy in developing countries needs to be cognizant of the crucial role of DUI in innovation and make the case for a balanced approach towards promoting STI and DUI mode of learning.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 323-342
Issue: 2-3
Volume: 11
Year: 2021
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2021.1988421
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Author-Name: Michiko Iizuka
Author-X-Name-First: Michiko
Author-X-Name-Last: Iizuka
Author-Name: Gerald Hane
Author-X-Name-First: Gerald
Author-X-Name-Last: Hane
Title: Towards attaining the SDGs: cases of disruptive and inclusive innovations
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The transformation of sociotechnical systems is necessary for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); however, often this is inhibited by the institutional inertia of the public sector, vested interests of the private sector, routine habits of individuals, and the increasing complexity of globalized activities. While policies to stimulate the transition exist, these are still insufficient. Meanwhile, there are many independent private initiatives to advance the social agenda. This research uses case study methods to explore the potential of innovation ecosystems created by an emerging private sector in meeting social agendas with disruptive and inclusive outcomes. The cases included here are East Ventures (Indonesia), Samurai Incubate (Japan/Kenya), and Aavishkaar Capital (India). Each case examines the best practices of distinctive business models in response to societal challenges by financing startups. Moreover, each demonstrates the innovation ecosystems that effectively complement the missing public services. Examining these can provide insights into how public policy can be formulated to scale up and transform these private initiatives into broader societal transitions to accelerate progress towards achieving the SDGs.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 343-364
Issue: 2-3
Volume: 11
Year: 2021
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2021.1954751
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Author-Name: Rasmus Lema
Author-X-Name-First: Rasmus
Author-X-Name-Last: Lema
Author-Name: Erika Kraemer-Mbula
Author-X-Name-First: Erika
Author-X-Name-Last: Kraemer-Mbula
Author-Name: Marija Rakas
Author-X-Name-First: Marija
Author-X-Name-Last: Rakas
Title: Innovation in developing countries: examining two decades of research
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This article examines how the literature on innovation in developing countries has developed in the social science-related disciplines over the last two decades. While increasing fourfold in the last decade compared to the decade before, the bulk is on middle-income emerging economies. These emerging economies, especially China, increasingly shape the thematic orientation of the literature. In this respect, low-income countries remain marginal, and research on them is rather fragmented. Furthermore, new disciplinary fields that did not exist or were small 20 years ago have been central in the literature's overall advance. Yet, it is mainly informed by theoretical concepts developed in the rich world and outside innovation and development studies. However, we argue that the innovation and development research community is well positioned to inform this increasing interest in innovation in developing countries. To do so, it should strengthen its core with grounded theory building, seek complementarities with other theoretical traditions, and endorse openness and collaboration with development research in domains such as agriculture, energy and health. This may strengthen the ability of the community to better inform policies for societal change.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 189-210
Issue: 2-3
Volume: 11
Year: 2021
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2021.1989647
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Author-Name: K. J. Joseph
Author-X-Name-First: K. J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Joseph
Author-Name: Susan Cozzens
Author-X-Name-First: Susan
Author-X-Name-Last: Cozzens
Author-Name: Claudia De Fuentes
Author-X-Name-First: Claudia
Author-X-Name-Last: De Fuentes
Author-Name: Gabriela Dutrénit
Author-X-Name-First: Gabriela
Author-X-Name-Last: Dutrénit
Author-Name: Glenda Kruss
Author-X-Name-First: Glenda
Author-X-Name-Last: Kruss
Author-Name: Rasmus Lema
Author-X-Name-First: Rasmus
Author-X-Name-Last: Lema
Title: A decade of innovation and development
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This year marks the tenth anniversary of Innovation and Development. This special anniversary issue brings together a set of reflective articles by key scholars in our field. Each article contributes in a different way to advance the agenda on innovation and its relations to sustainable and inclusive development. Several of the papers take a step back and reflect on overall developments in the field, and in this way, propose future directions. In this introductory article, we recollect the journey of the journal, bring out the insights emerging from the anniversary issue and chart and an agenda for the future.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 173-187
Issue: 2-3
Volume: 11
Year: 2021
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2021.1988041
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Author-Name: Bitrina Diyamett
Author-X-Name-First: Bitrina
Author-X-Name-Last: Diyamett
Title: Emerging trends in theorizing and use of the concept of innovation: what implication for development?
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The field of innovation studies is in a crisis: it is a victim of its success. This is because – along with the increasing popularity and use – the clarity of the innovation concept seems to be deflated. More importantly, this field also suffers a methodological crisis. Specifically, there seems to be an increased tendency to turn around the normal relationship between theory, policy and practice: rather than deriving policies from empirically informed theories, there are emerging tendencies for abstract policy ideas to inform theory instead. This paper shows how the work on so-called ‘social innovation’ and on ‘transformative innovation policy’ is leading these tendencies. It argues that these tendencies that are inconsistent with scientific principles are detrimental to the poor and technology-constrained countries. Such countries need evidence-informed innovation policy derived from empirically informed theoretical propositions to build their technological capabilities and spur social and economic development. But the new approaches seem to be weakening the ability of innovation studies to inform policy which is effective for actions in developing countries. The diffusion of these new frameworks is kicking away the ladder. This article thus calls upon innovation and development scholars to put things right by revisiting the emerging models.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 211-227
Issue: 2-3
Volume: 11
Year: 2021
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2021.1975360
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Author-Name: Susan E. Cozzens
Author-X-Name-First: Susan E.
Author-X-Name-Last: Cozzens
Title: Inequalities and STI policies: impact analysis
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As inequality rises around the world, practitioners of science, technology, and innovation (STI) policy need to consider their roles in exacerbating or mitigating it. Unless they are specifically designed to do otherwise, national and regional STI policies tend to increase inequality. Alternative designs are available, however, to use STI policy in ways that improve lives in low-resource households, reduce horizontal inequalities, and help to close the gaps between rich and poor. The size of the impact of these options is impossible to determine with current information but the potential is significant.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 229-241
Issue: 2-3
Volume: 11
Year: 2021
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2021.1973650
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Author-Name: Deepak Nayyar
Author-X-Name-First: Deepak
Author-X-Name-Last: Nayyar
Title: Industrialization in developing Asia since 1970: why technology, learning, and innovation matter
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The paper seeks to analyze the remarkable pace of industrialization in Asia during the past half century, even if its distribution was most unequal between countries, with a focus on selected countries described as the Asian-14. It argues that economic openness, while necessary was not sufficient. It was conducive to industrialization only when combined with sensible industrial policy that was implemented by effective governments. There was, of course, an enormous diversity in the nature of openness and the process of industrialization across countries. Yet, there were discernible patterns in the different paths to industrialization, pointing to determinants of success and factors underlying failure. The analysis highlights the importance of technological capabilities, learning and innovation, which were essential for the few countries that joined the league of industrialized nations. It concludes that this will be just as necessary for countries that follow in their footsteps or aspire to sustain their industrialization.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 365-385
Issue: 2-3
Volume: 11
Year: 2021
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2021.1985696
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Author-Name: Jorge Nogueira de Paiva Britto
Author-X-Name-First: Jorge Nogueira de Paiva
Author-X-Name-Last: Britto
Author-Name: Leonardo Costa Ribeiro
Author-X-Name-First: Leonardo Costa
Author-X-Name-Last: Ribeiro
Author-Name: Eduardo da Motta e Albuquerque
Author-X-Name-First: Eduardo
Author-X-Name-Last: da Motta e Albuquerque
Title: Global systems of innovation: introductory notes on a new layer and a new hierarchy in innovation systems
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This paper revisits the pioneers of innovation systems in the 1980s to evaluate their perception of international forces tensioning national boundaries of those systems. The development of multinational enterprises and consequent changes in their operation beyond national borders is discussed, looking at the formation of a network of international knowledge flows. Those changes are connected to the internationalization of science and consequent formation of another network of international knowledge flows. Both networks, one firm-led and the other university-led, are pushed by the revolutions in information and communication technologies. The combination, overlapping and intertwinement of those two networks of international knowledge flows constitute a new layer in innovation systems – an emergent global innovation system. This new layer rearranges the roles of regional, sectoral and national innovation systems.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 259-279
Issue: 2-3
Volume: 11
Year: 2021
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2021.1934255
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Author-Name: Pavel G. Corilloclla Terbullino
Author-X-Name-First: Pavel G.
Author-X-Name-Last: Corilloclla Terbullino
Title: A wake-up call from Chris Freeman’s understanding of innovation and innovation systems: challenges for Latin America
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This essay provides a personal account on how my research endeavour drew upon Freeman’s seminal ideas regarding four aspects, namely, the broad sense of the national system of innovation (NSI) concept, the definition of innovation as an interactive learning process, the relevance of the science and education subsystems, and the importance of international flows of people, knowledge and technology. Altogether, these ideas supported my building of a conceptual framework to study barriers to university-industry linkages and international partnerships in the context of centres of excellence in Latin American countries (LAC). Freeman’s ideas meant a wake-call for understanding innovation in different contexts and an opportunity to build tailored conceptual frameworks that can be applied to LAC.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 51-58
Issue: 1
Volume: 12
Year: 2022
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2021.1930398
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Author-Name: Jana Schmutzler
Author-X-Name-First: Jana
Author-X-Name-Last: Schmutzler
Author-Name: Rhiannon Pugh
Author-X-Name-First: Rhiannon
Author-X-Name-Last: Pugh
Author-Name: Alexandra Tsvetkova
Author-X-Name-First: Alexandra
Author-X-Name-Last: Tsvetkova
Title: Contextual and evolutionary perspectives on entrepreneurial ecosystems. Insights from Chris Freeman’s thinking
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In recent years a concept gaining much traction amongst both economic and policy communities is that of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems (EE). We are interested in this concept because it has clear roots in innovation system thinking and can be argued to represent a contemporary iteration of ideas around systemic understandings and policy approaches to economic development, innovation, and entrepreneurship. In our work we have been exploring the links between earlier innovation systems and newer entrepreneurial ecosystem concepts. In this essay, we expand this line of thinking by interrogating the EE concept from the perspective of the work of Christopher Freeman, often called the father of innovation studies. It is our argument that by combining contemporary debates in EE with the more ‘classic’ literatures from the innovation systems cannon, we can gain a deeper understanding of the trinity of economic development, innovation, and entrepreneurship to be of benefit both to the research and policy communities. Specifically, in this paper we zoom in on two specific elements of Freeman’s thinking on innovation systems: context specificity and evolutionary dynamics and push EE thinking forward using these insights.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 13-21
Issue: 1
Volume: 12
Year: 2022
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2021.1931742
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Author-Name: Melina A. Galdos
Author-X-Name-First: Melina A.
Author-X-Name-Last: Galdos
Author-Name: Shagufta Haneef
Author-X-Name-First: Shagufta
Author-X-Name-Last: Haneef
Title: The voluntary underdevelopment paradox: revisiting Freeman’s ideas on indigenous capabilities for innovation in the global south
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There is a growing recognition of the university as an actor with the capacity to articulate and respond to societal needs and demands expressed outside conventional market structures. Universities in the global south offer converging spaces where knowledge stemming from different groups in society is carefully weaved with that produced in the global north to produce innovations that cater to the needs of excluded populations. However, the trends that seemed to have enabled the development of indigenous capabilities in global south universities, coupled with a worrying disconnection between such capabilities and the real world of production, may be encumbering the upwelling of socially inclusive narratives and practices around innovation, limiting thus their full transformative potential. In this essay, we draw upon Freeman’s ground-breaking idea of voluntary underdevelopment and bridge it with that of (un)satisfactory innovations and social demands for innovation to explain this paradox and propose a way forward.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 33-41
Issue: 1
Volume: 12
Year: 2022
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2021.1930889
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Author-Name: Antonio Biurrun
Author-X-Name-First: Antonio
Author-X-Name-Last: Biurrun
Title: A global value chain perspective on the phenomena of innovation and inequality
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The present brief comment explores some of Christopher Freeman’s main ideas and their influence on my recent and current research. The concepts of broad and narrow National Systems of Innovation (NSI), regional systems of innovation and production networks are some of the main sources of inspiration for part of my works. Combined with a concern for development and social progress I have tried to understand how NSI relate and condition not only the outputs of innovation and economic growth but also their effect on social issues such as income inequality rates. Some evidence on the consequences of innovation on inequality is reviewed here, and some future lines of research regarding Global Value Chains (GVC) approaches are proposed.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 97-106
Issue: 1
Volume: 12
Year: 2022
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2021.1930891
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Author-Name: Natalia Gras
Author-X-Name-First: Natalia
Author-X-Name-Last: Gras
Title: STI and policies for development: Freeman’s contributions to thinking Latin America future
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The aim of the essay is to reflect on how Freeman’s intellectual work linked to some of his contributions on the relationships between STI, Society and Development, including the role of STI policy and the Innovation System approach, influence my academic work. In particular, on the understanding and theoretical–conceptual, methodological and empirical analysis I make of both the processes of knowledge production and its creative use for economic-productive and social purposes. To this end, I propose to revisit Freeman’s work, identifying ideas, concepts and relationships that contribute to the understanding of the phenomena I study.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 71-76
Issue: 1
Volume: 12
Year: 2022
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2021.1968584
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Author-Name: Mario A. Pinzón-Camargo
Author-X-Name-First: Mario A.
Author-X-Name-Last: Pinzón-Camargo
Author-Name: Gonzalo Ordoñez-Matamoros
Author-X-Name-First: Gonzalo
Author-X-Name-Last: Ordoñez-Matamoros
Author-Name: Stefan Kuhlmann
Author-X-Name-First: Stefan
Author-X-Name-Last: Kuhlmann
Title: Towards a path-transformative heuristic in inclusive innovation initiatives: an exploratory case in rural communities in Colombia
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This study contributes to a better understanding of the transformative process towards inclusive innovation from the perspective of three literature branches, inclusive innovation, institutional entrepreneurship and path dependence. Based on these literature branches, we ensemble a heuristic to assess the role of Institutional Entrepreneurs in fostering Inclusive Innovation initiatives supported by National Entities in local communities. To assess the heuristic and answer the beforehand question, we used an exploratory case at the municipality of Cumbal, in Nariño (Colombia). Through secondary information analysis and preliminary fieldwork observations, we demonstrate usefulness of the heuristic to unfold the transformative process in local communities. Also, we identified Institutional Entrepreneurs as change agents.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 135-154
Issue: 1
Volume: 12
Year: 2022
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2020.1832029
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Author-Name: Fakher Omezzine
Author-X-Name-First: Fakher
Author-X-Name-Last: Omezzine
Author-Name: Vidya Oruganti
Author-X-Name-First: Vidya
Author-X-Name-Last: Oruganti
Author-Name: Isabel Maria Bodas Freitas
Author-X-Name-First: Isabel Maria
Author-X-Name-Last: Bodas Freitas
Title: Learning from crisis: repurposing to address grand challenges
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We highlight that institutions may encourage or discourage organizations to engage in the repurposing of technologies and value chain linkages for attaining financial goals and responding to social needs and challenges. Based on evidence from several examples of repurposing and collective action during the recent COVID-19 health crisis, we try to learn and infer, how institutions can create an environment that fosters repurposing beyond crisis situations. Our evidence, accordant to Chris Freeman's argument on the success of nations to catch up and maintain technological and trade competitiveness, suggest that multiple institutional factors may influence a country's ability to design and implement solutions through technological repurposing. We discuss the implications of this result and future research directions.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 59-69
Issue: 1
Volume: 12
Year: 2022
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2021.1930397
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Author-Name: Arthur Moreira
Author-X-Name-First: Arthur
Author-X-Name-Last: Moreira
Title: Grand challenges and the role of the ‘linear model’
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The commitment of recently elected Joe Biden to achieve carbon net-zero by 2050, together with the EU and China, signals a real effort against the climate emergency by the main economic actors globally. But how will the US make it happen in the context of a surplus of cheap polluting energy derived from shale gas? Or how will China, given her frequent inauguration of coal power plants? For Freeman (1996), beyond changes in consumer culture and in institutions, priority for long-term R&D is justified and needed to get us out of our current carbon-based mode of production. He argued in the mid-1990s that the ‘linear model’ of innovation, often more criticised than supported, still has a role to play in tackling the climate challenge.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 85-87
Issue: 1
Volume: 12
Year: 2022
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2021.1930396
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Author-Name: Manuel Gonzalo
Author-X-Name-First: Manuel
Author-X-Name-Last: Gonzalo
Title: Freeman’s broadening contribution revisited: reasoned-history and systemic STI policies from South America to the Global South
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The aim of this short essay is to revisit and reposition Freeman’s broadening research and methodological contribution. In the first section, I point out that: (a) in conceptual terms, Freeman has worked in order to move away from the narrow R&D focus of the endogenous growth theory to develop the systemic understanding of the social process of evolution, particularly focusing on STI policies and (b) in methodological terms, Freeman has moved away from mere econometric and cliometrics approaches to reasoned-history, looking to reconciler the separation between history and economic theory under a heterodox framework. In the second section, I briefly contextualize Freeman’s interaction with the South American scholars on science, technology and society in order to frame how Freeman’s conceptual and methodological approaches helped me during my PhD Thesis research process. The essay concludes with some potential Global South dialogue on innovation, development and growth.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 43-50
Issue: 1
Volume: 12
Year: 2022
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2021.1930378
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Author-Name: José Miguel Natera
Author-X-Name-First: José Miguel
Author-X-Name-Last: Natera
Title: The tree lives beyond its leaves: Freeman’s legacy on system thinking for innovation studies
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In this short essay, I will discuss Christopher Freeman’s legacy using two axes: (i) the multidimensional vision that he has put forward in National Innovation Systems and (ii) the upmost importance of considering time as a structuring element of the systemic analysis of innovation. I identify some aspects of Freeman’s systemic thinking. This essay is closed by reflecting on the beautiful road ahead that Freeman has signalled for future generations of scholars.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 77-84
Issue: 1
Volume: 12
Year: 2022
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2021.1931743
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Author-Name: Sandro Giachi
Author-X-Name-First: Sandro
Author-X-Name-Last: Giachi
Author-Name: Rocio Alvarez-Tinoco
Author-X-Name-First: Rocio
Author-X-Name-Last: Alvarez-Tinoco
Title: Innovation policy development for sustainable fisheries in the Global South: from R&D to system transformation
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The goal of this study is to explore the emergence of different Frames for innovation policy in relation to social and environmental challenges like those posed by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We suggest and use an analytical framework based on the three Frames for Innovation Policy proposed by Schot and Steinmueller (2018a, “Three frames for innovation policy: R&D, systems of innovation and transformative change.” Research Policy 47 (9): 1554–1567) to analyse two specific dimensions of innovation policy: the justification for policy intervention (type of failure) and the focus of intervention (mechanism for change). The shift from R&D and regulation towards system transformation is illustrated through a case study of a local agri-food industry in the Global South: the Mayan octopus fishery in the Yucatan region of Mexico. The case study evidence suggests that the emergence of different Frames did not follow a linear sequence and there are overlapping and ‘hybrid’ policies. The findings also suggest that Frame 3 initiatives require or emerge from Frame 1 or Frame 2 policy interventions.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 113-134
Issue: 1
Volume: 12
Year: 2022
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2020.1831169
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Author-Name: Le Chen
Author-X-Name-First: Le
Author-X-Name-Last: Chen
Title: Christopher Freeman: the soul mentor for guiding to write a new chapter in the new era
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The important role of Chris Freeman in the study of economics of innovation theory has been confirmed by his enormous contributions to the history of modern economic science via the revival of the Schumpeterian tradition focusing on the crucial role of innovation for economic development and of scientific and technological activities for well-being. This comment focused on Chris Freeman's discussion on the structural crises of adjustment, business cycles and investment behaviour in long-term fluctuations in the growth of the world economy and particularly in the Schumpeterian theory of business cycles. This comment began by looking at the framework of the article written by Chris Freeman and Carlota Perez in 1988. Next, the most significant advantages of the article were set forth with interpretations. The final section concluded the discussion by reflecting on his role of the soul mentor for guiding to write a new chapter in the new era.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 93-96
Issue: 1
Volume: 12
Year: 2022
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2021.1930392
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Author-Name: Kejia Yang
Author-X-Name-First: Kejia
Author-X-Name-Last: Yang
Title: Innovation, development and sustainability: inspirations of Freeman’s economics of hope
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This paper introduces Freeman’s thoughts on values, economic growth and the environment in the book of The Economics of Hope: essays on technical change, economic growth and the environment. It elaborates how Freeman’s ideas and concepts have inspired my doctoral studies which focus on the shift of socio-technical systems towards sustainability. Moreover, it discusses how Freeman’s concerns on the role of science, technology and innovation policy for a better society are still inspiring us today.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 107-112
Issue: 1
Volume: 12
Year: 2022
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2021.1930400
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Author-Name: Chipo Nancy Ngongoni
Author-X-Name-First: Chipo Nancy
Author-X-Name-Last: Ngongoni
Title: Looking to the old to understand the new – insights on how innovation ecosystems can leverage off innovation systems
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Pegging similar research constructs against each other is the usual norm where different streams of thought aim to seek validation and claim space in scholarship. Nevertheless, with the rapid rate of innovation and interaction globally, developing a construct solely on its own merit sometimes can be futile though enlightening. This is the dilemma I was faced with whilst undertaking my doctoral study which was aimed at understanding various facets of Innovation Ecosystems. Leveraging off Christopher Freeman’s supposition of learning from the old to inform the new helped my thought processes. Firstly, I looked to Innovation Systems research to assist in understanding functional activities that occur in Innovation Ecosystems. Secondly, I applied the same perspective when it comes to selecting cases that I analysed in the study. The overall aim of this reflective piece is to exemplify how one construct can always learn from another to morph from just being theoretical to being practical.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 23-31
Issue: 1
Volume: 12
Year: 2022
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2021.1930399
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Author-Name: Florencia Fiorentin
Author-X-Name-First: Florencia
Author-X-Name-Last: Fiorentin
Author-Name: Diana Suárez
Author-X-Name-First: Diana
Author-X-Name-Last: Suárez
Title: If Freeman had seen the COVID-19 crisis. Reflections over the need for global congruence
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The objective of this short comment is to reflect on Freeman’s concept of congruence from his 2002 article ‘Continental, national and sub-national innovation systems—complementarity and economic growth’, in the new COVID-19 word. There, Freeman argued about the need for coherence between the different nations’ sub-systems and between the national, continental and global spheres in the matter of development. The emphasis was on the different types of (in)congruence of the different sub-systems of societies – e.g. education, science, technology, politics, culture, among others– that led to specific (under)development paths. The COVID – 19 crisis poses a new stage in the globalization process, and development is still a global challenge, both in terms of preventing new crises and overcoming future ones. Connecting the thoughts of Freeman to these challenges might contribute to a necessary renewed debate about development in current times.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 89-91
Issue: 1
Volume: 12
Year: 2022
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2021.1930888
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Author-Name: Parfait Yongabo
Author-X-Name-First: Parfait
Author-X-Name-Last: Yongabo
Author-Name: Bo Göransson
Author-X-Name-First: Bo
Author-X-Name-Last: Göransson
Title: Constructing the national innovation system in Rwanda: efforts and challenges
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The building of sustainable innovation capabilities in Africa requires an innovation system capable of producing, disseminating and using new knowledge. This paper assesses the process of constructing the National Innovation System (NIS) in Rwanda. It is posited that consensus on and acceptance of the concept of NIS among stakeholders is crucial in the early process of constructing an efficient and dynamic innovation system. Primary empirical data are presented for the case of Rwanda and analyzed in a regional context. The study shows that the NIS concept is generally being integrated and utilized in the process of building sustainable innovation capabilities in Rwanda. In particular, Rwanda exhibits promising progress in the process of establishing and reinforcing infrastructures and institutions as well as policies to promote innovation. However, there are still challenges associated with low research capacity, low level of interactions among stakeholders, limited financial resources as well as lack of coordination framework, all of which contribute to hampering the building up of sustainable innovation capabilities.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 155-176
Issue: 1
Volume: 12
Year: 2022
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2020.1846886
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Author-Name: Betty-Ann Ananeh-Frempong
Author-X-Name-First: Betty-Ann
Author-X-Name-Last: Ananeh-Frempong
Title: Innovation in the backward linkage firms in Ghana’s gold mining sector
Abstract:
This contribution illustrates how Freeman’s ideas, concepts and approach, helped me build my framework of thought for my paper on innovation in supply firms to the gold mining firms in Ghana. Freeman’s theory of the National System of Innovation helped me to better understand the importance of government policy in developing the innovative capacity of firms. My research discovered that Ghana’s local content policy had increased local participation in the gold mining industry. Yet the lack of investment in the development of the technological capacity of firms and research institutions had led the firms that supply to the gold mining companies to import most of the items on the procurement list without adding any value.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 5-11
Issue: 1
Volume: 12
Year: 2022
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2021.1930395
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Author-Name: Gabriela Dutrénit
Author-X-Name-First: Gabriela
Author-X-Name-Last: Dutrénit
Author-Name: Judith Sutz
Author-X-Name-First: Judith
Author-X-Name-Last: Sutz
Title: Freeman projected into the future of innovation and development studies: a contribution to the celebration of Christopher Freeman 100th birthday anniversary
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 1-3
Issue: 1
Volume: 12
Year: 2022
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2021.1936622
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Author-Name: Charity Osei-Amponsah
Author-X-Name-First: Charity
Author-X-Name-Last: Osei-Amponsah
Title: Innovation capabilities and learning mechanisms: insights from Ghanaian fresh fruit processing enterprises
Abstract:
Strengthening the capabilities of agro-processing enterprises to be innovative and competitive has been a long-term industrial development challenge. This is mainly because, there is limited empirical insight on the ability of the enterprises to assimilate and use knowledge to create innovations. The effectiveness of policy in supporting capability building is also often contested. This paper employs a multi-case qualitative research approach to understand innovation capability building processes. It argues that learning mechanisms required differ with agro-enterprise size. Findings reveal the acquisition of knowledge in the micro- and small enterprises is embedded in learning-by-doing and informal mechanisms that require context-specific development interventions. Therefore, knowledge supply organizations must understand these peculiarities to support these enterprises with ‘easy-to-understand-and-use’ technologies and practical managerial information. Policy-makers need to formulate and implement strategies that can effectively facilitate partnerships, technology development and transfer within an enabling industrial policy environment, for enhanced capability building and a competitive industrial sector.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 259-277
Issue: 2
Volume: 12
Year: 2022
Month: 05
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2020.1845481
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Author-Name: Maj Munch Andersen
Author-X-Name-First: Maj Munch
Author-X-Name-Last: Andersen
Author-Name: Erick Ogallo
Author-X-Name-First: Erick
Author-X-Name-Last: Ogallo
Author-Name: Lourenço Galvão Diniz Faria
Author-X-Name-First: Lourenço Galvão
Author-X-Name-Last: Diniz Faria
Title: Green economic change in Africa – green and circular innovation trends, conditions and dynamics in Kenyan companies
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African countries seek to intensify their industrialization while also increasingly pursuing green growth and, more recently, circular economy strategies. The competitive implications of this are, however, little researched empirically. We seek to investigate how African countries, examplified in this paper by Kenya, are experiencing a green and circular structural change of their economies. On the basis of early findings from a survey among 27 mixed manufacturing companies in Ruaraka industrial area in Nairobi, we highlight green and circular innovation trends, conditions and dynamics for different types of industries and firms (size). We apply a strong business perspective in framing the questions. We conclude that the companies are reaching a moderate stage of greening,although with a high degree of variability. Circular innovations are relatively widespread and ensuring resource supply seems to be a more important incentive than cutting costs. There seems overall to be quite strong business incentives to go circular among Kenyan companies, although these incentives are not necessarily realized by the companies, a factor that could be utilized in policymaking. We suggest a strong business-oriented survey methodology as a way forward to expand insights into the greening of industries in Africa and similar economies.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 231-257
Issue: 2
Volume: 12
Year: 2022
Month: 05
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2021.1876586
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Author-Name: Abdi Yuya Ahmad
Author-X-Name-First: Abdi Yuya
Author-X-Name-Last: Ahmad
Title: Unlocking the potentials of Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) in building local technological capabilities in agro-processing industry
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This research was aimed at feeding into the quest for ways that would help advance Africa’s effort to industrialize its economy. Empirical evidence suggests transforming the agro-industry and inserting MSEs into value chains is the most feasible strategy. Inspired by arguments against global value chains (GVCs) orientation of Africa’s industrialization strategies, this research investigated the link between local production and technological capability in Africa using indicators from various international databases and cross-country quantitative analyses. The research also undertook an in-depth qualitative investigation on Ethiopia’s edible oil industry as an important case capable of shedding some light on problems linked to Africa’s agro-processing with a special focus on local production system and technological capability. The finding revealed strong positive linkages between local value chains and technological/innovation capabilities in Africa. Structural constraints, under-developed supply chains, and poor implementation and coordination of policies have limited Africa’s capability to harness potentials inherent in the agro-processing sector.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 279-303
Issue: 2
Volume: 12
Year: 2022
Month: 05
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2020.1836460
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Author-Name: Ann N. Kingiri
Author-X-Name-First: Ann N.
Author-X-Name-Last: Kingiri
Title: Exploring innovation capabilities build up in the deployment of crop biotechnology innovation in Kenya
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Agro-biotechnology deployment has been very slow in Africa, yet it has potential for enhancing sustainable development and industrialization. This paper attempts to understand the underlying factors that characterize the new technologies’ deployment process. It takes buildup of innovation capabilities as the point of interrogation considering that very few products have received regulatory approval for large-scale commercialization in Africa. It uses Kenya’s agro-biotech innovation system as a case study. The study finds that creating and accumulating innovation capabilities is much broader than research and development (R & D) capability and entails institutional capabilities that are needed to enhance biotech innovation that may lead to a sustainable industrialization.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 305-324
Issue: 2
Volume: 12
Year: 2022
Month: 05
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2021.1884934
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Author-Name: Nazeem Mustapha
Author-X-Name-First: Nazeem
Author-X-Name-Last: Mustapha
Author-Name: Il-haam Petersen
Author-X-Name-First: Il-haam
Author-X-Name-Last: Petersen
Author-Name: Oluseye Jegede
Author-X-Name-First: Oluseye
Author-X-Name-Last: Jegede
Author-Name: Isabel Bortagaray
Author-X-Name-First: Isabel
Author-X-Name-Last: Bortagaray
Author-Name: Glenda Kruss
Author-X-Name-First: Glenda
Author-X-Name-Last: Kruss
Title: Measurement of innovation in the informal sector in Africa: the importance to industrial policy
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Innovation is key to industrialization in Africa and must be aligned with industrial policy. A challenge for African countries is to design and implement innovation and industrial policies that take into account the unique structural nature of African economies, in which the informal sector is prevalent. This paper argues that a measurement programme focused on innovation in the context of local economic development is imperative for setting industrial and innovation policy in Africa. Policies tend to speak and respond to those phenomena that have been subjected to measurement programmes. Is there space for designing new measures of innovation in Africa that include the informal sector? We propose a novel methodology and framework for measuring informal sector innovation, based on a local innovation and production systems approach. We end the paper with a proposal for using the evidence gathered from this methodology and a continental strategy that lends itself to direct policy intervention that has local economic development and upgrading of value chains as a goal.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 325-342
Issue: 2
Volume: 12
Year: 2022
Month: 05
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2021.1887614
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Author-Name: Thomas Hebo Larsen
Author-X-Name-First: Thomas Hebo
Author-X-Name-Last: Larsen
Author-Name: Ulrich Elmer Hansen
Author-X-Name-First: Ulrich Elmer
Author-X-Name-Last: Hansen
Title: Sustainable industrialization in Africa: the localization of wind-turbine component production in South Africa
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The increasing investment in renewable energy (RE) in Africa has been accompanied by the establishment of a number of local RE component-manufacturing facilities across various African countries. The local manufacture of RE components presents an interesting opportunity for achieving sustainable industrialization in Africa. However, limited research has been devoted to analysing the factors enabling and impeding the localization of RE component production. In this paper, we analyse the determinant conditions for the localization of wind-turbine component production in South Africa in order to improve the understanding of the opportunities and challenges involved in achieving sustainable industrialization on the continent. Specifically, we explore the role of governance structures in the global value chain (GVC) pertaining to specific components in shaping national policy efforts to encourage the industry’s localization. We find that the local production of wind-turbine towers has generally made most progress compared to the localization of blade and nacelle production. Further, we find that the GVC’s governance structures may contribute both to impeding and to further accelerating the effect of adopted policies on the industry’s localization. The paper concludes by highlighting the significance of the state in promoting local RE manufacturing industries to help achieve sustainable industrialization in Africa.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 189-208
Issue: 2
Volume: 12
Year: 2022
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2020.1720937
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Author-Name: Abdi Yuya Ahmad
Author-X-Name-First: Abdi Yuya
Author-X-Name-Last: Ahmad
Author-Name: Charity Osei-Amponsah
Author-X-Name-First: Charity
Author-X-Name-Last: Osei-Amponsah
Author-Name: Kassahun Yimer Kebede
Author-X-Name-First: Kassahun Yimer
Author-X-Name-Last: Kebede
Title: Introduction to a special issue on ‘Building innovation capabilities for sustainable industrialization in Africa: status and prospects’
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The special issue of Innovation and Development on ‘Building innovation capabilities for sustainable industrialization in Africa … ’, presents a series of articles on building local technological capabilities and their implications for formulating and implementing policies in Africa’s industrialization agenda. Despite the high potential of Africa in advancing its industrialization mainly in resource-intensive sectors, progress remains low. Empirical evidence on the reasons for this problem is inadequate and patchy. Articles in this special issue address the gaps by delving into empirical issues ranging from sector-specific innovation capabilities to national systems of innovation. Based on first-hand data collected from South Africa, Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, and Rwanda, the articles unravelled key structural and systemic problems behind Africa’s dismal progress in developing technological and industrial capabilities. Together, these articles advance our understanding of how to improve the effectiveness of innovations, industrial policies, and coordination for inclusive and sustainable industrialization.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 177-187
Issue: 2
Volume: 12
Year: 2022
Month: 05
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2021.1928988
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Author-Name: Cecilia Theresa Trischler Gregersen
Author-X-Name-First: Cecilia Theresa Trischler
Author-X-Name-Last: Gregersen
Title: Local learning and capability building through technology transfer: experiences from the Lake Turkana Wind Power project in Kenya
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This paper contributes to the ongoing debate in innovation and development studies on renewable energy projects and their contributions to sustainable industrialization through the accumulation of innovation capabilities. Based on a case study of a large wind power project in Kenya, this research explores technology transfer and interactive learning processes to accumulate local capabilities. The study emphasizes the multiplicity of actors involved in complex infrastructure projects and explores the nature of their relationships and interactions through the research question: What are the opportunities and limitations for local learning and capability building through technology transfer in large renewable energy infrastructure projects? Identifying interactions across multiple phases of the Lake Turkana Wind Power project, the results show that multiple loops of interactions foster better local-learning opportunities. Wider project learning and learning for sustainable industrialization require deliberate investments to build collective capabilities.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 209-230
Issue: 2
Volume: 12
Year: 2022
Month: 05
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2020.1858612
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Author-Name: Cecilia Rikap
Author-X-Name-First: Cecilia
Author-X-Name-Last: Rikap
Author-Name: Bengt-Åke Lundvall
Author-X-Name-First: Bengt-Åke
Author-X-Name-Last: Lundvall
Title: Big tech, knowledge predation and the implications for development
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This paper focuses on tech giants as active drivers of a phase of globalization characterized by growth in digital services trade combined with a general shift to intangible assets. By analysing how Google, Amazon and Microsoft organize their innovation activities, we show that they continuously monopolize knowledge while outsourcing innovation steps to other firms and research institutions. The paper compares science and technology collaborations with patent co-ownership suggesting knowledge predation from those other organizations. We also highlight that selected tech giants combine the collection of innovation rents with rents from exclusive access to data. We, therefore, refer to tech giants as data-driven intellectual monopolies, each organizing and controlling a global corporate innovation system (CIS). Intellectual monopolies predate knowledge (including data when they are data-driven) from their CIS that they turn into intangible assets. The paper ends with reflections on the implications for innovation and development.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 389-416
Issue: 3
Volume: 12
Year: 2022
Month: 09
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Author-X-Name-First: Bernardo
Author-X-Name-Last: Patiño-Valencia
Author-Name: María Luisa Villalba-Morales
Author-X-Name-First: María Luisa
Author-X-Name-Last: Villalba-Morales
Author-Name: Mónica Acosta-Amaya
Author-X-Name-First: Mónica
Author-X-Name-Last: Acosta-Amaya
Author-Name: Cristian Villegas-Arboleda
Author-X-Name-First: Cristian
Author-X-Name-Last: Villegas-Arboleda
Author-Name: Edgar Calderón-Sanín
Author-X-Name-First: Edgar
Author-X-Name-Last: Calderón-Sanín
Title: Towards the conceptual understanding of social innovation and inclusive innovation: a literature review
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In facing some of the structural social problems such as inequality, poverty, and social exclusion, innovation literature, particularly related to social innovation and inclusive innovation, accounts for the existence of several conceptual categories as proposal to analyze, treat and solve these problems. These categories are complex, polysemic and in many cases, there are conflicts in their definition, scope, purpose, and other aspects. This work contrasts notions of social innovation and inclusive innovation to explain similarities and differences associated to those conflicts. The methodology used includes a literature review complemented by an author’s cluster analysis and a thematic cluster analysis approach was carried out using bibliometric tools. Main findings prove that conceptual similarities between both trends are explained because there is common origin under the term innovation. On the other hand, significant differences lie in the problems they seek to solve and the type of population assisted, while inclusive innovation explicitly implies the reduction of the exclusion condition of a specific population; social innovation encompasses general problems of a society, whether it is excluded or not.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 437-458
Issue: 3
Volume: 12
Year: 2022
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2020.1859215
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Author-Name: Sangwon Lee
Author-X-Name-First: Sangwon
Author-X-Name-Last: Lee
Author-Name: Do Han Kim
Author-X-Name-First: Do Han
Author-X-Name-Last: Kim
Title: Knowledge stocks, government R&D, institutional factors and innovation: evidence from biotechnology patent data
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Employing panel data from 36 countries, this study examines whether diverse factors such as existing knowledge stock, research and development (R&D) financed by government, R&D performed by government, education and economic freedom have influenced biotechnology innovation. The results indicate that existing knowledge stock is a driver of biotechnology innovation, reflecting potential positive path dependencies. This study also suggests the possibility that as the share of government R&D financed in total R&D expenditure increased, the performance of biotechnology innovation increased. However, in developed countries, an excessive rate of government R&D performed in total R&D expenditure could have negative innovation effects while higher education and economic freedom had a positive impact on the biotechnology innovation. We propose that, in developed countries, the government needs to play a role as a market facilitator for the promotion of biotechnology innovation. Developing countries need a stronger government role for the promotion of biotechnology innovation in terms of R&D investment.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 459-477
Issue: 3
Volume: 12
Year: 2022
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2020.1871462
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Author-Name: Samuel Wangwe
Author-X-Name-First: Samuel
Author-X-Name-Last: Wangwe
Author-Name: Roberto Simonetti
Author-X-Name-First: Roberto
Author-X-Name-Last: Simonetti
Author-Name: Paula Tibandebage
Author-X-Name-First: Paula
Author-X-Name-Last: Tibandebage
Author-Name: Maureen Mackintosh
Author-X-Name-First: Maureen
Author-X-Name-Last: Mackintosh
Author-Name: Caroline Israel
Author-X-Name-First: Caroline
Author-X-Name-Last: Israel
Author-Name: Phares G. M. Mujinja
Author-X-Name-First: Phares G. M.
Author-X-Name-Last: Mujinja
Title: Upgrading under globalization in health-related industries in Tanzania: the case for dynamic industrial deepening
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Globalization of markets and production networks has made it progressively harder for low income countries to industrialize. This article addresses a conundrum facing industrial firms and industrial policy in a low-income African country: how to achieve upgrading necessary for sustained competitiveness. Using data from a study of manufacturers of health products in Tanzania, we document the double ‘squeeze’ on firms’ profits exerted by sharp price competition alongside competitive pressure for rising product quality within globalized markets. Drawing on Sutton’s model of competing on capabilities, and the sectoral systems of innovation and production framework, we argue that ‘dynamic industrial deepening’, strengthening domestic inter-firm linkages, is a key requirement for sustainable development of these health industries. We present evidence that sectoral industrial support for the health industries can promote sustainable technological upgrading, and reflect on the challenge of building developmental linkages where external investment to support upgrading is transforming existing business structures.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 479-496
Issue: 3
Volume: 12
Year: 2022
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2021.1886415
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Author-Name: Gonzalo Ordóñez-Matamoros
Author-X-Name-First: Gonzalo
Author-X-Name-Last: Ordóñez-Matamoros
Author-Name: Jonathan Felipe Díaz
Author-X-Name-First: Jonathan Felipe
Author-X-Name-Last: Díaz
Author-Name: Juan Pablo Centeno
Author-X-Name-First: Juan Pablo
Author-X-Name-Last: Centeno
Author-Name: Carlos Alberto Guevara
Author-X-Name-First: Carlos Alberto
Author-X-Name-Last: Guevara
Title: Towards a functional governance framework for regional innovation systems in emerging economies: the case of Risaralda (Colombia)
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The analysis of Regional Innovation Systems (RIS) in Latin America has grown from both academic and policy perspectives. However, the dominant structural approach on RIS has limited the scope of analysis, overlooking the functional dynamics that take place in such systems. This paper addresses the question of how to conceive the governance of RIS from a functional perspective, by conducting a case study on the emerging Risaralda RIS (Colombia), which stands out for its innovative performance while still displaying important systemic failures. We specifically inquire into the strengths, weaknesses, integration dynamics and functions of this RIS. Results show a system with institutional and governance failures, which is host to a disperse network of stakeholders and innovation processes that include prioritized and enabling functions. We discuss these results and propose a governance framework that was collectively outlined with the participation of stakeholders in the RIS of Risaralda.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 497-520
Issue: 3
Volume: 12
Year: 2022
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2021.1880054
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Author-Name: Chandralekha Ghosh
Author-X-Name-First: Chandralekha
Author-X-Name-Last: Ghosh
Author-Name: Rimita Hom Chaudhury
Author-X-Name-First: Rimita
Author-X-Name-Last: Hom Chaudhury
Title: Determinants of digital finance in India
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Digital finance can act as a catalyst to promote the growth of financial inclusion. Since 2014, the Indian government has taken various steps to uplift the use of digital finance, one of them is demonetization. It was a major initiative by the government to move society towards cashless economy. In spite of large-scale demonetization overwhelming majority are not using digital finance in India. In this context, this study aims to evaluate the determinants and the impact of demonetization on digital finance and also whether demonetization has enhanced or reduced the pre-existing gender gap in terms of digital finance in case of India. Findings suggest that being a man, richer, more educated and older favours digital technology to avail financial services. The impact of education and income level on use of digital finance are more pronounced in post demonetization period (2017) than pre demonization period (2014). Results on gender gap have strongly proven this fact, but a positive gap still exits, implying women are still lagging behind than men.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 343-362
Issue: 3
Volume: 12
Year: 2022
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2020.1850012
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Author-Name: Liana J. Williams
Author-X-Name-First: Liana J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Williams
Author-Name: I. Komang Damar Jaya
Author-X-Name-First: I. Komang Damar
Author-X-Name-Last: Jaya
Author-Name: Andrew Hall
Author-X-Name-First: Andrew
Author-X-Name-Last: Hall
Author-Name: Michaela Cosijn
Author-X-Name-First: Michaela
Author-X-Name-Last: Cosijn
Author-Name: Rosmilawati
Author-X-Name-First:
Author-X-Name-Last: Rosmilawati
Author-Name: Sudirman
Author-X-Name-First:
Author-X-Name-Last: Sudirman
Author-Name: Wayan Suadnya
Author-X-Name-First: Wayan
Author-X-Name-Last: Suadnya
Author-Name: I. Wayan Sudika
Author-X-Name-First: I. Wayan
Author-X-Name-Last: Sudika
Title: Unmasking partnerships for agricultural innovation: the realities of a research–private sector partnership in Lombok, Indonesia
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Research institute–private sector partnerships are promoted as a mechanism to increase the scale and sustainability of research impact, especially where government extension services are constrained. Such partnerships are often framed as simple transactional or contractual arrangements. This paper traces the evolution of a multi-lateral partnership between a public university, agri-input supplier, finance provider and local government in North and East Lombok. The partnership aimed to increase household incomes by introducing new practices for maize and pulse production, but in order to do so, had to enable farmers to access affordable credit and inputs in a timely manner. Analysis of the partnership over three years highlights its dynamic nature and the importance of a consistent champion who aligns the competing institutional incentives and aspirations of actors. It also highlights how partners bear different types and degrees of risk across different stages of the partnership. The findings affirm the potential for research–private sector partnerships to contribute to agricultural innovation but highlight a more complex and messy process than is acknowledged in the literature. A more realistic understanding of partnership and innovation processes needs to inform how schemes and innovation support mechanisms are designed if they are to deliver on the promise of scale and sustainability.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 417-436
Issue: 3
Volume: 12
Year: 2022
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2020.1857949
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Author-Name: Kristoffer Daniel T. Li
Author-X-Name-First: Kristoffer Daniel T.
Author-X-Name-Last: Li
Title: Functional upgrading dynamics of latecomer firms in challenging innovation system and global value chain contexts: evidence from cacao-chocolate firms in the Philippines
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Functional upgrading of latecomer firms is most likely to occur when firms build capabilities facilitated by conducive innovation system (IS) or global value chains (GVC) environments. However, many developing countries suffer from simultaneously ineffective IS-GVC learning channels. Based on comparative case research of key cacao-chocolate firms in the Philippines, this study provides evidence that latecomer firms build functional upgrading capabilities directly through global knowledge networks and indirectly through market-based chain buyers in weak IS-GVC contexts. It highlights the role of learning source and sequence in functional upgrading; finding an advantageous order of formal course learning, informal internal experimentations, global knowledge networks engagement, and internal innovation activities by specialized technical teams. The study’s main contribution lies in its empirical exploration of how latecomer firms manage various internal and external learning mechanisms according to the different types of capability needed in the functional upgrading process. Implications on functional upgrading strategies are discussed.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 363-387
Issue: 3
Volume: 12
Year: 2022
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2020.1853959
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Author-Name: Florencia Fiorentin
Author-X-Name-First: Florencia
Author-X-Name-Last: Fiorentin
Author-Name: Diana Suárez
Author-X-Name-First: Diana
Author-X-Name-Last: Suárez
Author-Name: Gabriel Yoguel
Author-X-Name-First: Gabriel
Author-X-Name-Last: Yoguel
Title: Who benefits from innovation policy? The role of firms’ capabilities in accessing public innovation funding
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The objective of this paper is to study the role of firms’ capabilities in their benefiting from public funds for innovation. The literature agrees that capabilities play a key role in policy access, but this relationship has not been specifically explored. The theoretical framework combines the evolutionary approach to firms’ capabilities with the literature on innovation policy. The empirical strategy is based on the National Employment and Innovation Dynamics Survey, a CIS-type survey at the firm level. This includes data about access to the main Argentine Technological Fund (FONTAR). Results show that productive, innovation, and connectivity capabilities impact the probability of knowing about and accessing FONTAR, especially firms’ productive and connectivity skills. Results also show that innovator firms have higher probabilities of knowing about and accessing FONTAR than non-innovator ones. This provides evidence about the need to think of the public funding of innovation articulated with other firm-level policies.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 91-108
Issue: 1
Volume: 13
Year: 2023
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2021.1918918
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Author-Name: Kyle S. Herman
Author-X-Name-First: Kyle S.
Author-X-Name-Last: Herman
Title: Green growth and innovation in the Global South: a systematic literature review
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There has been much interest in green growth and innovation in recent years. The main idea is that domestic green growth policies can provide ‘win-wins’ to both the environment and the economy. But we still know very little about the impact of such policies, especially in developing countries—the ‘Global South.’ The literature remains underdeveloped. This is disappointing since the Global South could leverage green growth policies to enhance competitiveness, ‘leapfrog’ directly to cleaner technologies, and ‘catch-up’ economically and environmentally through innovation in environmental technologies. The lack of research is also problematic because greenhouse gas emissions from developing countries are growing rapidly. Without green growth and innovation it will be exceedingly difficult to meet the urgent needs of climate change. Against this backdrop, this paper conducts machine-aided citation, bibliometric, and keyword analyses on green growth research with a particular focus on developing countries, innovation, and environmental technologies.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 43-69
Issue: 1
Volume: 13
Year: 2023
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2021.1909821
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Author-Name: The Editors
Title: Correction
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: i-i
Issue: 1
Volume: 13
Year: 2023
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2021.1958664
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Author-Name: Hemant Ojha
Author-X-Name-First: Hemant
Author-X-Name-Last: Ojha
Author-Name: Andy Hall
Author-X-Name-First: Andy
Author-X-Name-Last: Hall
Title: Transformation as system innovation: insights from Nepal’s five decades of community forestry development
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Studies of sustainability transitions and transformational change are common in energy and transport sectors. However, there is limited research on how these transformational change processes play out in the natural resources sector, particularly in developing economies. This paper seeks to address this gap, with a case study of the community forestry system in Nepal that has, over the last four decades, reversed Himalayan land degradation and contributed to community livelihoods. The case illustrates comprehensive changes in forest management practices and governance over four decades. Central to this was a ‘thinking movement’ of development agencies, activists and researchers that opened up learning spaces and engage conflicting stakeholders in action-oriented dialogues. While transformation can never be pre-engineered, this study suggests that investment in strengthening locally engaged research capability could be a key way of catalyzing sustainability transitions, both as a continuous process of evolution and transformative shifts during the crisis and political opportunity.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 109-131
Issue: 1
Volume: 13
Year: 2023
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2021.1917112
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Author-Name: Pablo Lavarello
Author-X-Name-First: Pablo
Author-X-Name-Last: Lavarello
Author-Name: Sebastián Sztulwark
Author-X-Name-First: Sebastián
Author-X-Name-Last: Sztulwark
Author-Name: Matías Mancini
Author-X-Name-First: Matías
Author-X-Name-Last: Mancini
Author-Name: Santiago Juncal
Author-X-Name-First: Santiago
Author-X-Name-Last: Juncal
Title: Creative imitation in late industrializing countries: the case of biopharmaceutics in South Korea and India
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Given that the patents of the first high cost and complex biopharmaceuticals have started to expire, biotechnology offers opportunities for developing countries to pursue an upgrading process by entering the sector as early imitators. In the case of biotechnology applied to the health sector, the characteristics of the innovation process and the specificity of the regulatory process for biopharmaceuticals raises new questions as to the learning path open to the developing countries that intend to build an industrial promotion strategy on the basis of early entry as imitators. Given those specific characteristics, it is worth asking how far creative imitation strategies could constitute an opportunity for late late industrializing countries to undertake rapid industrial upgrading processes.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 133-152
Issue: 1
Volume: 13
Year: 2023
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2021.1934259
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Author-Name: Safendrri Komara Ragamustari
Author-X-Name-First: Safendrri Komara
Author-X-Name-Last: Ragamustari
Author-Name: Novia Budi Parwanto
Author-X-Name-First: Novia Budi
Author-X-Name-Last: Parwanto
Author-Name: Ani Adiwinata Nawir
Author-X-Name-First: Ani Adiwinata
Author-X-Name-Last: Nawir
Author-Name: Endang Sukara
Author-X-Name-First: Endang
Author-X-Name-Last: Sukara
Title: Indonesia's science and technology capacity evolution dynamics from 1970 to 2018 compared to the Republic of Korea
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A nation’s science and technology (S&T) capacity is key to its sustainable development. Countries that lack S&T capacity can learn from others. This research elucidates Indonesia’s S&T capacity evolution from 1970 to 2018 and compares it to that of the Republic of Korea using the national innovation system framework and evolution dynamics. Indonesia’s S&T capacity as of 2018 has evolved little since 1970 and is similar to the Republic of Korea’s in 1970–2000. The context is then analyzed retrospectively using policies issued by the Republic of Korea. Policies that can be implemented in Indonesia include measures to increase the effectiveness of institutions, an increase in gross expenditure in research and development as a percentage of GDP by 1.84–3.47%, an increase in the involvement of industry through incentives and matching the needs of industry-research, stronger national messaging regarding the importance of S&T, and a more specific S&T capacity development roadmap.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 153-172
Issue: 1
Volume: 13
Year: 2023
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2021.1928820
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Author-Name: Stephen Kehinde Medase
Author-X-Name-First: Stephen Kehinde
Author-X-Name-Last: Medase
Author-Name: Shoaib Abdul Basit
Author-X-Name-First: Shoaib
Author-X-Name-Last: Abdul Basit
Title: Trademark and product innovation: the interactive role of quality certification and firm-level attributes
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The study examines how quality certification and firm-level attributes (firm age and size) support firms’ innovative ecosystems that use trademarks in developing countries. The study combines data from the World Bank Enterprise Survey (WBES) and Innovation Follow-up Surveys (IFS) for 11 countries to test the hypotheses. The estimations are performed using an instrumental variable treatment model with direct-2sls for the primary analysis and a Tobit model for the robustness checks. Our findings indicate a positive effect of quality certification and trademark on product innovation. There is a synergistic effect of quality certification and trademark on product innovation. Similarly, firm age and size significantly and positively moderate the link between a trademark and product innovation. Interestingly, in the multi-level estimations, we still find the synergistic effect of quality certification and trademark on product innovation to hold. Our findings provide accommodating arguments for the complementary utilization of trademark and quality certification to support the focal firms’ product innovation. The results also show that firm-level attributes (firm age & size) constitute essential elements for firms to gain from a trademark possession to enhance performance.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 1-41
Issue: 1
Volume: 13
Year: 2023
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2021.1911049
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Author-Name: Alireza Javanmardi Kashan
Author-X-Name-First: Alireza
Author-X-Name-Last: Javanmardi Kashan
Author-Name: Kavoos Mohannak
Author-X-Name-First: Kavoos
Author-X-Name-Last: Mohannak
Author-Name: Judy Matthews
Author-X-Name-First: Judy
Author-X-Name-Last: Matthews
Title: Co-evolution of dynamic capability and knowledge development: from car assembly to luxury car innovation in the Iranian auto industry
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Despite the resounding call for innovation as a source of competitive advantage in today’s everchanging environment, many companies have found themselves unable to introduce innovative products and services to the market. The lack of knowledge and capability supportive of innovation is more observable among companies in emerging economies. Lagging behind developed economies in technology development created disadvantage for such companies, often inhibiting innovation. This study has unpacked the processes of dynamic capability and knowledge development in a leading automaker in Iran and the Middle East. Findings reveal the role of product innovation and the coevolutionary relationship between product innovation projects and knowledge and capability development. The findings guide managers for step by step development of knowledge and capability through a series of product innovation projects.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 71-89
Issue: 1
Volume: 13
Year: 2023
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2021.1912955
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Author-Name: Oluwayemisi Adebola Abisuga
Author-X-Name-First: Oluwayemisi Adebola
Author-X-Name-Last: Abisuga
Author-Name: Khumbulani Mpofu
Author-X-Name-First: Khumbulani
Author-X-Name-Last: Mpofu
Author-Name: Tshifhiwa Gift Nenzhelele
Author-X-Name-First: Tshifhiwa Gift
Author-X-Name-Last: Nenzhelele
Title: Issues in innovation and development in the handicrafts industries of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
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The handicraft industries are of great significance and economic value to many poor households but are still being neglected without enough support from the government and non-government institutions. The purpose of this research is to describe the experiences and insight of the crafter’s business activities in the Midlands, as well as the critical success factors towards innovation and development of the industry. This study argues that the handicraft entrepreneur needs to be innovative, explore and try new ideas towards the development and sustainability of the industry. The research objective is to identify the basic factors that affect the innovation and developmental needs of entrepreneurs operating handicraft enterprises. Quantitative methods of data collection and analysis were used for conducting the study. The key finding indicates an urgent need for intervention for handicraft entrepreneurs towards innovation and sustainable development of the industry. Hence, handicraft producers need more support than ever if they are to continue to sustain their livelihood and remain more worthwhile, with the fluctuations in consumer buying trends and tastes, combined with declining tourist visits to handicraft markets.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 193-212
Issue: 1
Volume: 13
Year: 2023
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2021.1951636
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Author-Name: Francisca Sassetti
Author-X-Name-First: Francisca
Author-X-Name-Last: Sassetti
Author-Name: Hannah Thinyane
Author-X-Name-First: Hannah
Author-X-Name-Last: Thinyane
Title: Apprise: inclusive innovation for enhancing the agency of vulnerable populations in the context of anti-trafficking responses
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This paper examines the design, development and implementation of an anti-trafficking intervention in Thailand, focusing on its context, supportive mechanisms, and outcomes. It reflects on a three-year engagement with government, NGOs and vulnerable workers to determine if there was a role for technology to support the initial screening phase of labour inspections. As part of this engagement we developed Apprise, a mobile app to enable proactive and robust screening of vulnerable populations for indications of labour exploitation and forced labour. The paper analyses the value sensitive and inclusive innovation process we undertook, aimed at empowering workers by enhancing their freedom to live the lives they have reason to value. We argue that, through prolonged engagements and higher levels of inclusive innovation, it is possible to uncover more of stakeholders’ underlying motivations and tensions for using digital technology. We also draw from amplification theory that posits that digital technology serves an amplifier of institutional and human intent and capacity. We argue that even with the most carefully designed systems, users will (mis)use technology to serve their original purposes. We discuss critical implications on the human welfare and privacy of vulnerable workers in the use of digital tools such as Apprise.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 173-191
Issue: 1
Volume: 13
Year: 2023
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2020.1854249
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Author-Name: Mohamed Ismail Sabry
Author-X-Name-First: Mohamed Ismail
Author-X-Name-Last: Sabry
Title: Innovation versus technology imitation development strategy: what influences government decision?
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This paper investigates the effect of state-business relations (SBR) and institutional settings on government decisions to foster innovation in developing countries. It differentiates between informal SBR-based cronyism and formal SBR-based lobbying and how they could influence a government’s decision to implement policies fostering innovation. After a theoretical discussion on the available literature, a theoretical model building on and complementing the Aghion and Howitt (2009) growth model with institutions is introduced. The model provides predictions on which institutional settings induce the government to support innovation, rather than technology imitation/transfer strategies. Using the random-effects regression model, the empirical results support some of the model’s predictions. This includes the negative effect of cronyism and the positive effect of public frustration from cronyism on choosing the innovation strategy. A positive effect also results from a situation where natural resources-caused economic growth is matched by institutional reform that curbs cronyism and mitigates the resource curse. A short discussion on some case studies follows before the paper ends with a conclusion.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 213-242
Issue: 2
Volume: 13
Year: 2023
Month: 05
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2021.1954361
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Author-Name: Alejandro Balanzó Guzmán
Author-X-Name-First: Alejandro
Author-X-Name-Last: Balanzó Guzmán
Author-Name: Juan Pablo Centeno
Author-X-Name-First: Juan Pablo
Author-X-Name-Last: Centeno
Author-Name: Claudia Marcela Pinzón Rojas
Author-X-Name-First: Claudia Marcela
Author-X-Name-Last: Pinzón Rojas
Author-Name: Héctor Heraldo Rojas Jiménez
Author-X-Name-First: Héctor Heraldo
Author-X-Name-Last: Rojas Jiménez
Title: Is bioeconomic potential shared? An assessment of policy expectations at the regional level in Colombia
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As other technological promises, bioeconomy has raised expectations as a burgeoning field for the economy. Policy work in Colombia claims that such current focus on ‘bio’ should be profited by the country given its regional mega-diverse potential. Yet, the question remains to what extent such arrangements are shared regionally, in a country exhibiting variegated multi-cultural drivers and differentiated bio-potential. This paper tackles this question, assessing national policy documents and regional oil and mining royalties investment in the period 2012–2019. Conceptually, we build on the notions of integration and convergence to read regional funding and niche development as evidence of multi-level expectations. We combine content analysis, descriptive analysis and social network analysis to assess expectations at the macro, meso and micro levels. Results show that there is not a consistent regional translation of the discourse on bioeconomy, showing dispersed views about how to render bioeconomy real. Higher education institutions and regional governments play a central role in keeping the network together; however, the lead has been taken by regional governments.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 275-300
Issue: 2
Volume: 13
Year: 2023
Month: 05
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2021.1956713
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Author-Name: Emmanuel Abbey
Author-X-Name-First: Emmanuel
Author-X-Name-Last: Abbey
Author-Name: Emmanuel Adu-Danso
Author-X-Name-First: Emmanuel
Author-X-Name-Last: Adu-Danso
Title: What factors hamper innovation amongst SMEs in Kenya?
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While much of the evidence about innovation amongst SMEs in many developing countries have sought to examine the factors that enhance the propensity of a firm to innovate, far less effort has gone into assessing the factors that hamper it. This paper follows the latter literature to provide an explanation of firm innovation failure amongst SMEs in Kenya by focusing exclusively on external obstacles. By relying on the World Bank Enterprise Surveys and defining innovation as involving product and process innovation, we showed that factors such as political instability and infrastructure, measured as access to electricity, can be critical to firm innovation. We also found that the effects could be context-specific, as the results differ based on various firm characteristics, including firm type, sector, age and size. Our findings provide important policy implications about firm innovation in Kenya as well as the understanding that providing a more conducive business environment is not only critical to enhancing various firm activities but also enhancing innovation performance.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 411-440
Issue: 2
Volume: 13
Year: 2023
Month: 05
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2022.2030890
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Author-Name: Jean-Marie Chenou
Author-X-Name-First: Jean-Marie
Author-X-Name-Last: Chenou
Author-Name: Daniela Forero Sánchez
Author-X-Name-First: Daniela
Author-X-Name-Last: Forero Sánchez
Title: Value creation and free labour in digital development agendas: evidence from Colombia
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The debate on the difference between value creation and value extraction has resurfaced since the 2008 financial crisis. Digitalization further raises the question of the frontier between productive and extractive activities in the data economy. Critical internet studies have developed the concept of free digital labour in order to highlight the issue of value creation and extraction in everyday online activities. While an emerging literature explores the issue of value in the digital age, the consequences in terms of development policies remain insufficiently researched. Against this background, this article analyses National Development Plans in Colombia to investigate the underlying notion of value. It shows that value creation is largely absent from development agendas that focus on access and infrastructure. However, it argues that the concept of digital labour is insufficient to understand the articulation of value creation and development, and the role of the state in the digital age.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 343-359
Issue: 2
Volume: 13
Year: 2023
Month: 05
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2021.1992830
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Author-Name: Berno Maarsingh
Author-X-Name-First: Berno
Author-X-Name-Last: Maarsingh
Author-Name: Sara S. Grobbelaar
Author-X-Name-First: Sara S.
Author-X-Name-Last: Grobbelaar
Author-Name: Mauricio Uriona-Maldonado
Author-X-Name-First: Mauricio
Author-X-Name-Last: Uriona-Maldonado
Author-Name: Marlien Herselman
Author-X-Name-First: Marlien
Author-X-Name-Last: Herselman
Title: Exploring functional dynamics of innovation for inclusive development: event history analysis of an ICT4D project
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Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) projects aim to improve the living conditions of marginalized communities. However, ICT4D interventions have high failure rates. We draw on the Technological Innovation for Inclusive Development Systems (TI4IDS) framework, which argues that ICT4D projects are embedded in a system affected by many different actors, stakeholders and institutions. We analyze this through a qualitative exploratory case study of an ICT4D project for Elderly Rural Women in Mafarafara in Limpopo, South Africa. We map a set of TI4IDS functions through event history analysis (EHA) to explore how ICT4D projects may be implemented. We draw conclusions regarding the dynamic exhibited in the projects and show how the focus shifted from the development of knowledge and guidance of search to knowledge diffusion during the uptake of the technology with a more significant focus on resource mobilization and market formulation towards the later phases.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 243-273
Issue: 2
Volume: 13
Year: 2023
Month: 05
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2021.1956712
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Author-Name: Lars Oehler
Author-X-Name-First: Lars
Author-X-Name-Last: Oehler
Title: How do R&D networks change? The upgrading of innovation capabilities in emerging market firms. Insights from China’s wind energy sector
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Innovative activities are increasingly decentralized and globally dispersed, which provides new upgrading opportunities for emerging market firms. However, little is known about how latecomer firms (re-)organize their research and development (R&D) over time as conditions for upgrading change. This paper systematically maps the R&D networks of China’s lead firms in the wind turbine industry. The empirical findings reveal that latecomer firms not only exploit but increasingly co-create vanguard knowledge in global R&D networks through organizational diversification. Taking an evolutionary perspective, the paper extends our understanding of the changing nature of upgrading mechanisms and provides new insights into the reorganization of innovation processes in an era of technological change.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 385-409
Issue: 2
Volume: 13
Year: 2023
Month: 05
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2022.2027627
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Author-Name: Ulisses Pereira dos Santos
Author-X-Name-First: Ulisses
Author-X-Name-Last: Pereira dos Santos
Author-Name: Philipe Scherrer Mendes
Author-X-Name-First: Philipe
Author-X-Name-Last: Scherrer Mendes
Title: Regional spillovers of knowledge in Brazil: evidence from science and technology municipal indicators
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This paper evaluates the role of regional spillovers of knowledge in Brazilian municipalities. The main hypothesis here is that regional inequalities restrict the knowledge spillovers in developing economies. We use a random-effects spatial panel model with data for two years, 2010 and 2015. Estimations indicate that regional spillovers of knowledge are important for innovation in Brazilian municipalities. The local scientific structure and economic specialization are also relevant for municipal innovativeness. The findings herein also provide evidence suggesting that spillovers are spatially restricted and will tend to reinforce the long-term regional imbalances in the Brazilian innovation system in the foreseeable future.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 323-342
Issue: 2
Volume: 13
Year: 2023
Month: 05
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2021.1978723
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Author-Name: Smita Srinivas
Author-X-Name-First: Smita
Author-X-Name-Last: Srinivas
Author-Name: Dinar Kale
Author-X-Name-First: Dinar
Author-X-Name-Last: Kale
Title: New approaches to learning and regulation in medical devices and diagnostics: insights from Indian cancer care
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This paper offers a first step to analysing sub-sector variation in firms’ learning and the types of leads or lag in industrial regulation in the Indian health industry, one of the world’s largest and broadest suppliers in critical generics, vaccines, and diagnostics. Sub-sector variation in an industry’s learning and regulation trajectory has received relatively little attention in economic development literature and has potentially important consequences for the design of the industrial policy. Our argument rests on the transfer of complexity of learning in a sub-sector to generic industrial regulations. The paper appeals to evolutionary and institutional (E-I) approaches in economics, which have made significant contributions in improving the understanding of how firms learn, and applies a qualitative heuristic focused on co-evolving institutional domains to extract some insights from the dynamics of the diagnostics and devices sector. The paper finds that although firms continue to learn and innovate, persistent regulatory challenges to firms are generated by the misapplication of industrial policies to diagnostics and devices that were intended for pharmaceuticals and vaccines. Our findings suggest sub-sector specific changes are needed on value priorities for policy design, use, and regulation of diagnostics and devices in healthcare.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 361-384
Issue: 2
Volume: 13
Year: 2023
Month: 05
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2021.2000145
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Author-Name: Justina Adwoa Onumah
Author-X-Name-First: Justina Adwoa
Author-X-Name-Last: Onumah
Author-Name: Felix Ankomah Asante
Author-X-Name-First: Felix Ankomah
Author-X-Name-Last: Asante
Author-Name: Robert Darko Osei
Author-X-Name-First: Robert Darko
Author-X-Name-Last: Osei
Title: Actor roles and linkages in the agricultural innovation system: options for establishing a cocoa innovation platform in Ghana
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Innovation platforms promote interactions among actors in an innovation system. Given the importance of the cocoa sub-sector to the Ghanaian economy, having an innovation platform is imperative for increasing innovative performance. Using qualitative data collection tools we obtained in-depth information on the roles and linkages of actors to provide options for the establishment/strengthening of the cocoa innovation platform in Ghana. Findings from the thematic and social network analysis suggest that stimulating the participation of farmer groups, actors in research, extension, policy, and the private sector is important as they have the power to attract and sustain relevant actors to the network and hold the structure of the cocoa innovation platform together. The study contributes to the literature by being the first study that has applied the SNA tool to the cocoa innovation system in Ghana and also by emphasizing the prominent role farmers and private sector actors play in such networks.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 301-322
Issue: 2
Volume: 13
Year: 2023
Month: 05
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2021.1965752
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Author-Name: Gabriel Quatrochi
Author-X-Name-First: Gabriel
Author-X-Name-Last: Quatrochi
Author-Name: Ana Lucia G. da Silva
Author-X-Name-First: Ana Lucia G.
Author-X-Name-Last: da Silva
Author-Name: José Eduardo Cassiolato
Author-X-Name-First: José Eduardo
Author-X-Name-Last: Cassiolato
Title: Banks 4.0 in Brazil: possibilities to ensure fintechs financing role through its market positioning
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The transformations brought by Industry 4.0 are many and comprehending their manifestations in the financial sector sounds mandatory to understand the new financing possibilities and, on the threshold, the very future of the sector. So far, the Brazilian reality in the banking sector includes fintechs, digital banks and open banking, all of which represent the deep transformations underway in the country’s credit market. But to what extent can these emerging outsiders effectively fulfil this financing role in the Brazilian context? From a neo-Schumpeterian approach, the aim of this study was to describe the main 4.0 technological trajectories and its new agents in the Brazilian banking sector, as well as the competitive strategies of the well-established incumbent banks, to understand how competitive conditions can ensure the market permanence of fintechs. Through an analytical overview, this based on a rigorous qualitative analysis of publications and available data, our study suggests that advances of the national regulatory framework for fintechs are a first-order recommendation if the objective is to really ensure the financial strength and liquidity both needed for these new players. In this context, the regulatory sandboxes can play an important role.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 561-581
Issue: 3
Volume: 13
Year: 2023
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2022.2086336
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Author-Name: Suelene Mascarini
Author-X-Name-First: Suelene
Author-X-Name-Last: Mascarini
Author-Name: Renato Garcia
Author-X-Name-First: Renato
Author-X-Name-Last: Garcia
Author-Name: Nicholas Vonortas
Author-X-Name-First: Nicholas
Author-X-Name-Last: Vonortas
Title: The relationship between public support and the degree of novelty of innovation
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The literature regarding innovation policy in developing countries indicates that public support can play an important role in fostering the accumulation of technological capabilities for both exploration and exploitation, thus facilitating knowledge-intensive entrepreneurship and innovation. This paper addresses this debate, analysing the role of public support in the degree of novelty of innovation. We add to the literature new empirical evidence concerning the relation between the degree of novelty innovation novelty and either research and development (R&D)-specific or general innovation-oriented public support in developing countries, such as Brazil. Our results show that both R&D-specific and general innovation-oriented public support are positively associated with innovation and shape the degree of innovation novelty. However, R&D-specific support is related to higher degrees of innovation than more general innovation-oriented public support.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 603-619
Issue: 3
Volume: 13
Year: 2023
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2022.2092682
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Author-Name: Octavio T. Barrera-Perales
Author-X-Name-First: Octavio T.
Author-X-Name-Last: Barrera-Perales
Author-Name: Ana L. Burgos
Author-X-Name-First: Ana L.
Author-X-Name-Last: Burgos
Title: Conceptual distinction between agricultural innovation and rural innovation: implications for scientific research and public policy
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Rural areas require better living conditions and revitalization. Consequently, innovation in the countryside needs to be discussed. The work proposes a conceptual framework to distinguish agricultural innovation (AI) and rural innovation (RI) as contrasting approaches. We examine for both approaches in scientific research trends (2014-2018) and public policies for the Mexican countryside (2013-2018). While AI has strong conceptual development focusing on technology, agri-businesses, and competitiveness of farming systems, RI is an under-construction approach looking for rural change considering endogenous development and social innovations. Recent research trends were aligned to both approaches but also to innovation for facing climate change (ICC). Mexican public policy only reflected the AI approach despite the high marginalization in rural territories. AI, RI, and ICC are different conceptual fields but strongly related to sustainable rural development. Distinguishing AI and RI contributes to clarifying scientific research and designing appropriate public policies, considering inequalities in the rural world.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 471-492
Issue: 3
Volume: 13
Year: 2023
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2022.2049534
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Author-Name: Huong Thu Ngo
Author-X-Name-First: Huong Thu
Author-X-Name-Last: Ngo
Title: Do indigenous or foreign innovation efforts matter for the middle-income economies transition to the higher-income rank? An empirical evidence
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This study analyzes whether indigenous or foreign innovation efforts are more important for the transition of middle-income economies to the higher-income rank. Data on 61 countries in both lower middle-income and upper middle-income categories between 1980 and 2018 are used. Discrete-time hazard models are employed. The unobserved heterogeneity is controlled in the estimations to improve the continuous-time hazard model applied in existing studies on innovation at the national level. Results show that foreign sources of innovation measured by nonresident patents and international R&D spillovers through the FDI channel are more important for the lower middle-income group to move up the income ladder. For the upper middle-income group, domestic source of innovation measured by R&D capital stock is the most important, followed by foreign innovation diffused through the import channel. Institutional quality supports the upper middle-income economies to obtain the high-income rank.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 621-638
Issue: 3
Volume: 13
Year: 2023
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2022.2110663
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Author-Name: Douglas Horton
Author-X-Name-First: Douglas
Author-X-Name-Last: Horton
Author-Name: André Devaux
Author-X-Name-First: André
Author-X-Name-Last: Devaux
Author-Name: Thomas Bernet
Author-X-Name-First: Thomas
Author-X-Name-Last: Bernet
Author-Name: Sarah Mayanja
Author-X-Name-First: Sarah
Author-X-Name-Last: Mayanja
Author-Name: Miguel Ordinola
Author-X-Name-First: Miguel
Author-X-Name-Last: Ordinola
Author-Name: Graham Thiele
Author-X-Name-First: Graham
Author-X-Name-Last: Thiele
Title: Inclusive innovation in agricultural value chains: lessons from use of a systems approach in diverse settings
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Systems approaches are widely promoted for inclusive innovation, but their use and results are seldom evaluated. We assessed applications of the Participatory Market Chain Approach (PMCA), which combines elements of innovation system and value chain approaches, in eight cases in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. We found that the PMCA performed best where the policy environment favoured value chain development, the chain offered significant potential for value addition, and the PMCA was implemented with high fidelity to its basic principles, and as part of a larger development effort. Facilitation was crucial for developing locally appropriate implementation procedures and engaging smallholders, commercial entrepreneurs, researchers, and other service providers throughout the PMCA application. By focusing on commercial innovation, the PMCA offered a strategic entry point for stimulating more systemic innovation. We conclude with six lessons on (1) how commercial innovation can trigger broader innovation; (2) the need to engage commercial entrepreneurs in innovation processes; (3) the importance of committed, motivated and capable facilitators; (4) the advantage of embedding the PMCA in a broader development effort; (5) how systems approaches can help R&D organizations respond better to market demands; and (6) the contributions of systems approaches to innovation capacity.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 517-539
Issue: 3
Volume: 13
Year: 2023
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2022.2070587
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Author-Name: Valeria Arza
Author-X-Name-First: Valeria
Author-X-Name-Last: Arza
Author-Name: Federica Nieri
Author-X-Name-First: Federica
Author-X-Name-Last: Nieri
Author-Name: Elisa Giuliani
Author-X-Name-First: Elisa
Author-X-Name-Last: Giuliani
Title: R&D investment under stress and uncertainty: the case of Argentina
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Firms in developing economies are subject to macroeconomic fluctuations and policy swings, which generate uncertainty about the future behaviour of key variables that condition their return to innovation. In this paper, we explore how macroeconomic uncertainty and past exposure to macroeconomic shocks affect R&D investments. Using firm-level data on Argentina for the period 1992–2001, we find that firms that have experienced more shocks are less likely to commit to R&D investment and, also, that macroeconomic uncertainty prevents firms’ investment in R&D. We find that this effect is stronger for firms that have experienced more macroeconomic-shocks and weaker for firms with higher levels of foreign ownership.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 441-469
Issue: 3
Volume: 13
Year: 2023
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2022.2049124
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Author-Name: Primoz Konda
Author-X-Name-First: Primoz
Author-X-Name-Last: Konda
Title: Domestic deployment in the formative phase of the Chinese Electric Vehicles Sector: evolution of the policy-regimes and windows of opportunity
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China has been able to deploy electric vehicles at an unprecedented speed and scale. This paper explores the underlying policies during six years of sector formation, and it identifies a change in policy-regime after three years. The analysis of evolution of the policy-regimes indicates that creating, transferring, and sharing knowledge among the principal actors was key to catching up. The changing policy-regime enabled a minimum threshold of technology development required for deployment. Nevertheless, it was insufficient for pushing the sector to the global technology frontier. Key to the sector’s relative success was the government’s responsiveness to sectoral development and its ability to address production, demand, and knowledge issues simultaneously. In addition, it created synergies between policies designed to address environmental concerns and foster economic development concurrently. However, fast deployment required heavy subsidies and important policy initiatives came with potential pitfalls that may hamper international competitiveness of the sector.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 493-516
Issue: 3
Volume: 13
Year: 2023
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2022.2053806
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Author-Name: Angel Bolosha
Author-X-Name-First: Angel
Author-X-Name-Last: Bolosha
Author-Name: Sikhulumile Sinyolo
Author-X-Name-First: Sikhulumile
Author-X-Name-Last: Sinyolo
Author-Name: Kgabo Hector Ramoroka
Author-X-Name-First: Kgabo Hector
Author-X-Name-Last: Ramoroka
Title: Factors influencing innovation among small, micro and medium enterprises (SMMEs) in marginalized settings: evidence from South Africa
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Achieving inclusive outcomes through innovation is such that small, micro and medium enterprises (SMMEs) can no longer be ignored. This study aims to investigate the determinants of innovation activities among SMMEs in a developing country context using evidence from South Africa. Using the binary logistic regression model, this paper analysed a dataset of 643 SMMEs located across eight district municipalities in South Africa. The study findings revealed that there are dynamic innovation activities occurring among SMMEs located in rural and/or informal settings, focusing on making incremental changes to production and delivery processes adopted from elsewhere. The study identified several factors that hinder or enhance innovation activities among SMMEs, revealing that the factors associated with innovation activities vary depending on the nature of the innovation activity. Empirical insights from this study could better inform strategies used by policy makers to promote innovation that strengthen the competitiveness of SMMEs and innovation that is socially inclusive.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 583-601
Issue: 3
Volume: 13
Year: 2023
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2022.2092681
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Author-Name: Kristoffer Daniel T. Li
Author-X-Name-First: Kristoffer
Author-X-Name-Last: Daniel T. Li
Title: Conventional versus grassroots innovation outcomes in developing country makerspaces: governance and its determinants in the Philippines
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Makerspaces (MS) are widely considered to be sites for democratizing innovation outcomes away from conventional commercial and educational agenda of the entrepreneurial and scientific elite towards a grassroots and inclusive agenda. However, MS can reproduce elite-driven innovation outcomes as much as it can transform such towards a grassroots agenda, as is most evident in developing country contexts. Based on comparative case research of 10 selected MS in the Philippines, this study examines the variation of innovation outcomes among MS. Cases selected represent the heterogeneity of MS innovation outcomes in both material and cultural terms. The study finds three types of innovation outcomes that are research-based projects and elite culture, commercial-oriented projects and service culture, and creative and grassroots projects and maker culture. It further finds that MS governance, as determined by variation in host organizations, MS capabilities, and cluster dynamics, shape innovation outcomes. It highlights that grassroots innovation outcomes are most effectively facilitated by MS independence, design capabilities, and diverse and high-skilled clusters. The study’s main contribution lies in its empirical exploration of the factors and dynamics that shape diverse innovation outcomes in MS. Policy implications for grassroots innovation are discussed.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 541-560
Issue: 3
Volume: 13
Year: 2023
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2022.2084824
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Author-Name: Chanchai Phonthanukitithaworn
Author-X-Name-First: Chanchai
Author-X-Name-Last: Phonthanukitithaworn
Author-Name: Wutthiya A. Srisathan
Author-X-Name-First: Wutthiya A.
Author-X-Name-Last: Srisathan
Author-Name: Chavis Ketkaew
Author-X-Name-First: Chavis
Author-X-Name-Last: Ketkaew
Author-Name: Phaninee Naruetharadhol
Author-X-Name-First: Phaninee
Author-X-Name-Last: Naruetharadhol
Title: Open innovation and family-owned sustainopreneurial performance: insights into Thailand’s generation gap
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Openness to innovation is a key strategic decision of any family business. Despite a rising interest among studies regarding open innovation (OI) in family companies, the existing knowledge and information are rather limited. The present study aims to enhance a greater understanding of the execution of OI strategy, examining how OI affects firm performance in each generation. Using a structural equation model (SEM), a sample of 563 family businesses was collected via a survey across different regions of Thailand. We study the significance of open innovation approach in family-owned SEMs in fostering the prospect of sustainopreneurship. The family-owned SMEs provide a generational backdrop for this aim, while the view of capabilities and resources has permitted inquiry into the mechanisms that contribute to sustainopreneurial performance. These processes are begun by the development of sustainable orientation, enterprise resource capabilities, and strategic marketing capabilities through cooperation plans.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 639-663
Issue: 3
Volume: 13
Year: 2023
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2022.2111774
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Author-Name: Elder Davy
Author-X-Name-First: Elder
Author-X-Name-Last: Davy
Author-Name: Ulrich E. Hansen
Author-X-Name-First: Ulrich E.
Author-X-Name-Last: Hansen
Author-Name: Ivan Nygaard
Author-X-Name-First: Ivan
Author-X-Name-Last: Nygaard
Title: Localizing the solar value chain in Kenya?
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The debate on the benefits of renewable electrification in late industrializing economies has mostly focused on improved electricity access and climate mitigation arguments. The literature pays less attention to understanding the opportunities for sustainable industrialization. This paper contributes to the latter with insights from a case study of Solinc East Africa, a Kenyan solar module manufacturer that has remained in the market, despite intense competition from imports of low-cost solar panels. Drawing on in-depth fieldwork in the solar energy sector in Kenya, we apply a global value chain framework to explore how and why Solinc has been able to sustain its business. Our findings highlight the challenges of localizing solar manufacturing in Kenya and suggest it may only be possible in rare instances. Specifically, a unique combination of circumstances and factors were revealed that enabled Solinc to gain several advantages including (i) initial access to knowledge and materials from upstream linkages; (ii) downstream integration and partnerships with key distributors and customers; (iii) close proximity to customers; and (iv) provision of complementary and increasingly high value-added services. Our findings present a more positive perspective on the localization of related services, which we argue deserves more attention in the sustainable industrialization debate.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 217-240
Issue: 1
Volume: 14
Year: 2024
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2022.2121306
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Author-Name: Andrea Laplane
Author-X-Name-First: Andrea
Author-X-Name-Last: Laplane
Title: Market co-creating and shaping through investments in innovation: a comparative analysis of two public funding programmes in Brazil
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This paper documents the incipient emergence of an active role of the state in Brazil that has been oriented towards creating and shaping markets through investments in innovation. It draws on a comparative analysis of two case studies of funding programmes: the BNDES–FINEP Joint Programme for Supporting Industrial Technological Innovation in the Sugar-based Economy and Sugar-Chemicals Sectors (PAISS), and the Ministry of Health’s Production Development Partnerships Programme (PDPP). In the study, evidence was found within both programmes of five dimensions of effective public–private partnerships, these being that public agencies (i) seized mapped opportunities; (ii) took the lead; (iii) engaged in risk-sharing and institutional building; (iv) pursued risk diversification and competition; and (v) sought an equitable sharing of rewards. After a discussion of the main policy lessons, the paper concludes with a reflection on the specific challenges for building equitable public–private partnerships in the light of the increasingly competitive and global scope of the economy.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 25-46
Issue: 1
Volume: 14
Year: 2024
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2021.1989646
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Author-Name: Nadia Albis
Author-X-Name-First: Nadia
Author-X-Name-Last: Albis
Author-Name: Raquel Marín
Author-X-Name-First: Raquel
Author-X-Name-Last: Marín
Author-Name: Erika Sánchez
Author-X-Name-First: Erika
Author-X-Name-Last: Sánchez
Author-Name: Hernando Bayona-Rodríguez
Author-X-Name-First: Hernando
Author-X-Name-Last: Bayona-Rodríguez
Author-Name: Juan Manuel García
Author-X-Name-First: Juan Manuel
Author-X-Name-Last: García
Title: The impacts of public support for innovation on firm productivity and on private investment in R&D in manufacturing and services in Colombia
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This research analyzes the effectiveness of public support for innovation in the form of matching grants on productivity and on R&D intensity of manufacturing and service firms in Colombia, paying special attention to the impact of those funds aimed specifically at strengthening the innovation system. Results show that firms that received public funds for innovation have obtained significant improvements in productivity and have made greater efforts in R&D activities (compared to firms that did not receive matching grants). This suggests that public funds devoted to strengthening linkages among the different actors in the innovation system and to providing financial incentives to invest in R&D activities are effective mechanisms in the development of absorptive capacities, ultimately affecting both the learning process and the competitiveness of firms. These findings are particularly relevant for the design of public policies in developing countries, where innovation is a necessary condition for catching-up and economic upgrading.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 47-66
Issue: 1
Volume: 14
Year: 2024
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2021.1996312
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Author-Name: Priscilla Twumasi Baffour
Author-X-Name-First: Priscilla
Author-X-Name-Last: Twumasi Baffour
Author-Name: Peter Quartey
Author-X-Name-First: Peter
Author-X-Name-Last: Quartey
Author-Name: Emmanuel Adu-Danso
Author-X-Name-First: Emmanuel
Author-X-Name-Last: Adu-Danso
Title: The effects of innovation on the quantity and quality of jobs: evidence from sub-Saharan Africa
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Technological innovation is widely considered a primary source of economic growth and policies to encourage firm-level innovation remain key, even though its impact on employment remains indeterminate. Using the World Bank Enterprise survey on a sample of enterprises across sub-Saharan Africa, specifically Ghana, Kenya and Zambia, this study investigates: first, the effect of innovation on employment; second, the relationship between innovation and quality of employment and lastly, whether the type of innovation is important in isolating the effect of innovation on employment in sub-Saharan Africa. The results indicate that innovation has employment-enhancing effects in the subregion. In addition, novelty in product innovation is a more important source of employment for the firms in sub-Saharan Africa. In terms of innovation and the quality of employment, this study finds that process innovation is associated with a change in the labour composition mix in favour of unskilled workers.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 165-187
Issue: 1
Volume: 14
Year: 2024
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2022.2116784
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Author-Name: Tyeler Matsuo
Author-X-Name-First: Tyeler
Author-X-Name-Last: Matsuo
Author-Name: Abhishek Malhotra
Author-X-Name-First: Abhishek
Author-X-Name-Last: Malhotra
Author-Name: Tobias S. Schmidt
Author-X-Name-First: Tobias S.
Author-X-Name-Last: Schmidt
Title: Catching-up in green industries: the role of product architecture
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As latecomers to the industrialization process, developing countries may face barriers to upgrading from the production of mass-produced goods to higher-value technologies. Scholars have suggested that ‘windows of opportunity’ can temporarily lower entry barriers and provide an opportunity for latecomers to catch up to or even leapfrog incumbents. In this paper, we use the literature on product architecture to build on the concept of windows of opportunity. Specifically, we explore how changes in a technology’s use environment can create opportunities for indigenous innovation and upgrading in specific sub-systems or components of complex technologies. Using a comparative qualitative case study focusing on three renewable energy technologies, we develop a typology of catching-up opportunities in green energy industries. Our findings suggest that policymakers should target certain technologies in their industrial strategies based on certain technology characteristics, and should seek opportunities to capitalize on a local niche that creates a need for innovation.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 135-164
Issue: 1
Volume: 14
Year: 2024
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2022.2115192
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Author-Name: Olga Mikheeva
Author-X-Name-First: Olga
Author-X-Name-Last: Mikheeva
Title: Development banks and state-led investments: new research questions
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The aim of the article is to bring in the concept of governance and financial bureaucracies into the discussion on financing of innovation and development. The article refers to national development banks as the example of state-backed investors who make investment decisions in line with policy priorities (to prioritized sectors, technologies and development projects). While building on the examples of public development banks, the article seeks to conceptualize the governance of public strategic investments through the notion of a state-led ‘investment function’. In doing so, the article seeks complementarity of the concepts that derive from economics and innovation literature on one hand and public policy and governance literature on the other hand. This study suggests that the governance of state-led investments can be understood as a combination of financial policies, institutions and organizational routines that translate into capacities of respective public bureaucratic structures to make financing decisions.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 111-133
Issue: 1
Volume: 14
Year: 2024
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2023.2285891
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Author-Name: J. M. H. Tavares
Author-X-Name-First: J. M. H.
Author-X-Name-Last: Tavares
Author-Name: O. Mikheeva
Author-X-Name-First: O.
Author-X-Name-Last: Mikheeva
Author-Name: M. Gonzalo
Author-X-Name-First: M.
Author-X-Name-Last: Gonzalo
Title: Editorial for the Special Issue ‘Financing of innovation for development in the Global South’
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 1-5
Issue: 1
Volume: 14
Year: 2024
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2023.2285548
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Author-Name: Lauri Johannes Hooli
Author-X-Name-First: Lauri Johannes
Author-X-Name-Last: Hooli
Title: Private-sector innovation processes in development cooperation: perspectives from Finnish technology enterprises
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The development community has become an important financer of innovation processes in the Global South. This research scrutinizes Finnish private enterprises receiving development assistance for their innovation processes, targeting the markets of the Global South. Beyond the critical rationales, there is a lack of contextual understanding about the development impacts of private sector – focused development cooperation. The research reveals that the private sector’s role in development is heterogeneous and complex. Although, companies’ involvement has brought innovations, new actors, and funding to development cooperation, it has only fragile ties to the conventional objectives of development – to reduce extreme poverty and inequality. Innovation activities of the Finnish companies focus on rather developed markets of middle-income countries and an educated wealthy minority. Local communities have minor involvement in the design, profit sharing, or value addition of such projects, and their main role is the consumption of end products.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 7-24
Issue: 1
Volume: 14
Year: 2024
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2021.1979719
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Author-Name: João Marcos Hausmann Tavares
Author-X-Name-First: João Marcos Hausmann
Author-X-Name-Last: Tavares
Title: The financing of innovation policies in Brazil between 1999 and 2016: political economy, institutions and financial cycles
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The main objective of the present paper is to provide the reasons behind the rise and fall of resources for innovation policies in Brazil between 1999 and 2016. The paper also intends to provide a broad map of the financial relations between funding sources and financial agents in the Brazilian National System of Innovation (NSI). In order to do that, the paper uses mixed methods: a historical approach to cover the motivations of the political economy; principles of network analyses to map the institutional relations between funding sources and financial agents; and economic theory to understand the determinants of the cash flows that finance science, technology and innovation (STI) policies. The institutional arrangement of the Brazilian NSI led the financial cycle to rely, on a general level, on GDP dynamism; the strategy of selected public bodies; on the federal budget decision process; and on the external economic cycle. Between 2003 and 2014, political struggles led to economic policies that favoured GDP growth and public spending, while the opposite occurred from 2015 onwards. In general, institutions were not equipped to protect the financial resources from the political changes of the mid-2010s.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 89-110
Issue: 1
Volume: 14
Year: 2024
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2022.2076966
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Author-Name: Muhammad Arsalan Nazir
Author-X-Name-First: Muhammad Arsalan
Author-X-Name-Last: Nazir
Author-Name: Mohsin Raza Khan
Author-X-Name-First: Mohsin Raza
Author-X-Name-Last: Khan
Title: Identification of roles and factors influencing the adoption of ICTs in the SMEs of Pakistan by using an extended Technology Acceptance Model (TAM)
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Despite being the largest providers of business opportunities in Pakistan, there is a limited adoption of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). This study aims to first investigate the various roles that ICTs can play in enhancing SME efficiency, by adopting and extending the Technology Acceptance Model, and then identifying several factors to achieve their adoption. Thematic analysis has revealed four key themes for qualitative research methodology: (1) The roles and benefits of ICTs, (2) Factors influencing the adoption of ICTs, (3) Entrepreneurial (Individual) characteristics of owner-managers, and (4) Role of governments and national (local) institutional support. Though study contributes that ICT plays an important role in the development of SMEs, with an extended model, role of entrepreneurial (individual) characteristics of owner-managers is the most important determinant in the adoption of ICTs by SMEs. In addition, factors such as cultural and social effects, government and national (local) institutional support functions also influence the decision of SMEs to adopt ICT. Therefore, the findings of this empirical study could have the potential to improve innovation, knowledge and understanding of entrepreneurial behaviour within SMEs to successfully adopt and use ICT in the future with the support of different stakeholders.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 189-215
Issue: 1
Volume: 14
Year: 2024
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2022.2116785
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Author-Name: Manuel Gonzalo
Author-X-Name-First: Manuel
Author-X-Name-Last: Gonzalo
Author-Name: Nathalia Guimaraes Alves
Author-X-Name-First: Nathalia
Author-X-Name-Last: Guimaraes Alves
Author-Name: Juan Federico
Author-X-Name-First: Juan
Author-X-Name-Last: Federico
Author-Name: Marina Szapiro
Author-X-Name-First: Marina
Author-X-Name-Last: Szapiro
Author-Name: Hugo Kantis
Author-X-Name-First: Hugo
Author-X-Name-Last: Kantis
Title: Venture capital industry emergence and development in India and Brazil: the role of the state and challenges for the Global South countries
Abstract:
Most governments around the world are fostering innovation and entrepreneurial systems with a prominent role for venture capital (VC) support policies. However, the debate about the role and impact of VC support policies is still focused on the countries of the Global North. In this context, this paper seeks to describe and analyse the role that the state has played in the emergence and development of the VC industry in India and Brazil, two of the biggest economies of the Global South. We adopt a systemic and evolutionary perspective under the general context of a renewed role for the state in financing innovation. We offer interesting questions and implications to discuss the challenges, scale and impact that could be expected from VC industry support policies in the Global South countries.
Journal: Innovation and Development
Pages: 67-88
Issue: 1
Volume: 14
Year: 2024
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2022.2065721
File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/2157930X.2022.2065721
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Handle: RePEc:taf:riadxx:v:14:y:2024:i:1:p:67-88