Learning, Capability Building and Innovation for Development [Hardcover]

Today, a large number of scholars studying development understand this process as involving learning and capability building. Capability building is an active, not a passive, process. It requires a purposeful effort from the learner's side, with support and commitment on allocation of time and resources toward learning activities. This process implies the possibility of failure as well as success, as we also learn from failures. A global cast of academics and policy makers examines economic development as a process of learning and technological accumulation, showing how economic development is a process involving creative destruction. While markets and market competition play major roles in structuring the development process, non-market institutions and government policies matter.1.Introduction; Gabriela Dutr?nit, Keun Lee, Richard Nelson, Luc Soete and Alexandre O. Vera-Cruz 2. The Generation of Domestic Technological Capabilities: Measuring the Impact of the Contributions of Jorge Katz; Gabriela Dutr?nit 3. The Latin American Structuralist School and the Innovation Systems Perspective: Jorge Katz, Learning and Micro and Macro Connections; Jos? E. Cassiolato, Helena Lastres and Fl?vio Peixoto 4. The Significance of Jorge Katz's Work for the Understanding of Learning and Technological Capability Building in Developing Countries; Alexandre O. Vera-Cruz and Arturo Torres Vargas 5. 'Old and New' Approaches to Innovation Policy: a Systems Evolutionary (S/E) Perspective; Morris Teubal 6. Industrial Productivity in Developing Nations; Howard Pack 7. Productivity and Firm Heterogeneity in Chile; Gustavo Crespi 8. Developing Competing Capabilities in the Argentinean Industry (1958-2008); Bernardo Kosacoff 9. Micro-Macro Interactions in Technological Learning and Growth; Mario Cimoli & Gabriel Porcile 10. The Social Dimension of Behaviour: Macroeconomic Uncertainty and Firms' Investment in R&D and in Machinery in Argentina; Valeria Arza 11lãà