The Challenges of Technology and Economic Catch-up in Emerging Economies

Lee, Jeong-Dong (EDT)/ Lee, Keun (EDT)/ Meissner, Dirk (EDT)

Oxford University Press（2021/06発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 518 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780192896049
• DDC分類 338.90091724

Full Description

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.

Innovation is a pivotal driving force behind economic growth. Technological capability deepens and diversifies industrial activity, which fundamentally enhances growth potential. Consequently, failure to build effective technological capability can lead to slow long-term economic growth. This book synthesizes and interprets existing knowledge on technology upgrading failures in order to better understand the challenges of technology upgrading in emerging economies. The objective is to bring together diverse evidence on three major dimensions of technology upgrading: paths of technology upgrading, structural changes in the nature of technology upgrading, and the issues of technology transfer and technology upgrading. Knowledge on these three dimensions is synthesized at the firm, sector, and macro levels across different countries and world macroregions.

Compared to the challenges and uncertainties facing emerging economies, our understanding of technology upgrading is sparse, unsystematic, and scattered. The recent growth slowdown in many emerging economies, often known as the middle-income trap, has reinforced the importance of understanding the technology upgrading challenges they experience. While our understanding of these issues from the 1980s and 1990s is relatively more systematised, the more recent changes that took place during the globalization and proliferation of global value chains, and the effects of the 2008 financial crisis, have not been explored and compared synthetically. The current effects of COVID-19, geopolitical struggles, and the growing concern around environmental sustainability add significant complexity to an already problematic situation. The time is ripe to take stock of our existing knowledge on processes of technology upgrading in emerging economies and make further inroads in research on this crucial issue.

Contents

1: Jeong-Dong Lee, Keun Lee, Dirk Meisner, Slavo Radosevic, and Nicholas Vonortas: Technology Upgrading and Economic Catch-Up: Context, Overview, and Conclusions Section I - Technology Capability and Growth Performance at the Country Level 2: Jan Fagerberg and Martin Srholec: Capabilities, Competitiveness, Nations 3: Kirill Osaulenko and Slavo Radosevic: Technology Upgrading in Emerging Economies: A New Approach to its Measurement, Results, and Relationship to Mainstream Measures 4: Jeong-Dong Lee, Chulwoo Baek, and Jung-In Yeon: Middle Innovation Trap: Capability Transition Failure and Stalled Economic Growth 5: Keun Lee: Economics of Technological Leapfrogging 6: Vitaliy Roud: Innovation Surveys as Evidence of Technological Upgrading and Catch-Up Studies Section II - Technology Capability Upgrade and Sectoral Catch-Up 7: André Cherubini Alves, Nicholas S. Vonortas, and Paulo Antônio Zawislak: Macro and Micro Foundations for Technology Upgrading and Innovation: The Case of Shipbuilding and Offshore Industry Missed Window of Opportunity in Brazil 8: Paulo N Figueiredo and Janaina Piana: Technology Upgrading in Natural Resource-Intensive Industries: Evidence from the Brazilian Mining Industry 9: Jae-Yong Choung and Hye-Ran Hwang: Upgrading Non-technological Capabilities: Evidence from Korean Firms Section III - Emerging Paradigm on Technology Capability Upgrading 10: Tilman Altenburg: Catching Up or Developing Differently? Techno-Institutional Learning with a Sustainable Planet in Mind 11: John A. Mathews: Leapfrogging on Steroids: China's Green Growth Strategies 12: Tommaso Ciarli, Maria Savona, and Jodie Thorpe: Innovation for Inclusive Structural Change 13: Gabriela Dutrénit, José Miguel Natera, Martín Puchet, and Alexandre O. Vera-Cruz: Evolutionary Spheres that Condition the Technological Capabilities Accumulation in Latin America Section IV - Innovation Policy for Technology Upgrading 14: Xudong Gao: Using Large-Scale Programs to Help Develop Technological Capabilities: Cases in China 15: Carlo Pietrobelli: Industrial and Innovation Policies in a World of Global Value Chains 16: Yevgeny Kuznetsov: Experimentalist Governance for Technology Upgrading: New Industrial Policy Process