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The Industrial Policy Reference Resource is a bibliography of key South African and international references on industrial policy and related subjects. It was developed with financial assistance from the Development Policy Research Unit (DPRU) and the Department for International Development (DFID).
This paper looks at the link between emergence and intention for economic development, specifically as it relates to the development of technologically innovative regions. Hence…
- Authors Markku Sotarauta & Smita Srinivas
- Year 2005
- Organisation Industrial Performance Centre-MIT
- Publisher MIT
This paper addresses a central question confronting politicians, business leaders, and economic planners throughout the world: How can local economic communities survive and prosper in…
- Authors Sachi Hatakenaka, Peter Westnes, Martin Gjelsvik, Richard K. Lester
- Year 2006
- Organisation Industrial Performance Centre-MIT
- Publisher MIT
This paper examines two sectors, integrated circuits (ICs) and personal computers (PCs). These sectors have figured prominently in Taiwan's technology policy. Both have had their…
- Authors Douglas B. Fuller
- Year 2002
- Organisation Industrial Performance Centre-MIT
- Publisher MIT
In the last decade, three countries have figured prominently as cases of late-late developing countries that achieved worldwide success with their Information Technology (IT) industries:…
- Authors Dan Breznitz
- Year 2004
- Organisation Industrial Performance Centre-MIT
- Publisher MIT
This paper presents a critical review of the Global Value Chain literature in light of the Technological Capabilities approach to innovation in LDCs. Participation in…
- Authors Andrea Morrison, Carlo Pietrobelli and Roberta Rabellotti
- Year 2006
- Organisation CESPRI
- Publisher Universita' Bocconi
Learning has been recognized as an important factor in explaining the growth of firms in both industrial organization theory and literature. However, few models have…
- Authors Madhuri Saripalle
- Year 2006
- Organisation University of Connecticut
- Publisher MPRA
This paper examines empirical evidence of the technological capabilities of firms in the industrial pole of Manaus, in a developing area of northern Brazil. It…
- Authors Paulo N Figueiredo and Conceicao Vedovello
- Year 2005
- Organisation UNU-INTECH
- Publisher United Nations University
This Report focuses on a number of structural issues that have passed largely unnoticed and where substantial degrees of freedom remain for domestic policymaking vis-à-vis…
- Authors UNIDO
- Year 2005
- Organisation UNIDO
- Publisher UNIDO Publication
This paper seeks to contribute to the debate relative to industrial technological capability building in association with changes into a liberalised and globalized economic regime…
- Authors Paulo N Figueiredo
- Year 2005
- Organisation Danish Research Unit for Industrial Dynamics
- Publisher Getulio Vargas Foundation/EBAPE
This paper seeks to offer an alternative perspective on the issues of changes in policy regime and firm-level technological capability development. The paper draws on…
- Authors Paulo N Figueiredo
- Year 2006
- Organisation University of Sussex
- Publisher Getulio Vargas Foundation/EBAPE
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The United Nations has made access to Information and Communication Technology (ICT) a primary objective for the developing world. Several policies have been implemented to…
- Authors Trisha L. Bezmen and Craig A Depken II
- Year 2003
- Organisation University of Texas
- Publisher n/a
In continued pursuit of its mandate to help countries reduce poverty and improve living standards through sustainable growth and investment in people, the World Bank…
- Authors Lauritz B. Holm-Nielsen
- Year 2000
- Organisation The World Bank
- Publisher The World Bank Group
This paper briefly reviews what is new about emerging pathways to innovation in Asian electronics industries. I demonstrate that the role of Asia's leading players…
- Authors Dieter Ernst
- Year 2003
- Organisation East West Center
- Publisher East West Center
In the policy realm, the orthodox terms of engagement with globalization have been enshrined in the Washington consensus of secure property rights, fiscal discipline, sectorally…
- Authors Marcus Noland & Howard Pack
- Year 2003
- Organisation LAEBA
- Publisher Inter-American Development Bank