The Rise of Technological Power in the South

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Figures......Page 9
List of Tables......Page 11
Notes on Contributors......Page 15
Introduction......Page 26
Part I: Policy, Strategy and Catch-up: Cross-Country Analysis......Page 38
1 Innovation Strategies in Brazil, China and India: From Imitation to Deepening Technological Capability in the South......Page 40
2 Economic Growth and Technological Capabilities in BRICS: Implications for Latecomers to Industrialization......Page 74
3 The Changing Geography of Innovation Activities: What do Patents Indicators Imply?......Page 94
Part II: Policy, Strategy and Catch-up: Country Case Studies......Page 112
4 China's Catch- up and Innovation Model: A Case of the IT industry......Page 114
5 Science and Technology and Economic Growth in South Africa: Performance and Prospects......Page 132
6 Market-Oriented Reforms, Domestic Technological Capabilities and Economic Development in Latin America......Page 150
Part III: Innovation Systems and Technological Capabilities......Page 170
7 The Finance of Innovative Investment in Emerging Economies......Page 172
8 A Comprehensive Model of Technological Learning: Empirical Research on the Chinese Manufacturing Sector......Page 195
9 The Innovation of SMEs and Development of Industrial Clusters in China......Page 211
Part IV: Foreign Direct Investment and Technology Transfer......Page 226
10 FDI, R&D and Innovation Output in the Chinese Automobile Industry......Page 228
11 The Role of FDI in the Development of Innovative Capacity: The Case of Russian Companies......Page 246
12 Human Capital and Technological Spillovers from FDI in the Chinese Regions: A Threshold Approach......Page 263
13 Transnational Corporations from Emerging Economies and South-South FDI......Page 283
Part V: Technology and Sustainable Development......Page 304
14 Technological Competences in Sustainability Technologies in the BRICS Countries......Page 306
15 Coordination, Convergence or Contradiction: Information and Communication Technologies for Integration and Development in Southern Africa and the Southern Cone......Page 325
16 Sustainability of Technology-intensive Social Innovation in India: The Role of Absorptive Capacity and Complementary Assets......Page 345
Conclusions: Science, Technology and Development – Emerging Concepts and Visions......Page 366
Index......Page 380