In developing countries, innovation is to a large extent a matter of adoption of advanced technologies but also of conducting internal R&D to be able to better assimilate existing technologies. This paper, based on firm level data from 24 developing countries, examines the roles of internal R&D...

This paper surveys what can be said in response to three major questions: What are the contributions of ICTs to economic growth, how do ICTs influence competitiveness, and what can public policy do to affect the contribution of ICTs to growth and competitiveness? Current knowledge is limited,...

This paper reports on the preliminary development of a conceptual framework for national innovation systems, with a special reference to the problems and difficulties currently faced by developing countries in their industrial developments, in the circumstances of economic globalization and...

In this paper we employ firm-level data collected in three countries to analyze factors determining the adoption of internal e-business technologies in developing countries. The main objectives of the study are: identification of clusters based on technology adopted, classify firms in each...

The paper investigates the impact of the adoption of e-business technologies on workforce displacement. A case study approach has been applied to examine both direct and indirect employment associated with the adoption and production of new technologies. The study covers a wide spectrum of large...

This study examines the impact of process and product innovation on employment growth and composition in Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, and Uruguay using micro data from innovation surveys. Based on the model put forward by Harrison et al. (1998), employment growth is related to process...

The present paper examines how a developing country like India is competing in the nanotechnology race. Our study shows that both upstream scientific and technological capabilities and downstream regulatory capabilities are being strengthened. India has clearly made a dent in terms of scientific...

We show that the credit crisis of OECD countries has a negative impact on the growth of the world economy according to an error correction model including China and Australia. This causes negative growth effects in poor developing countries. The reduced growth has a direct or indirect impact on...

Due to recent revival of interest on industrial policy, there have been many attempts to design policy tools to facilitate the successful emergence of new industry, which in turn may help developing countries to transform structurally to a developmental path. Often, however, the existing policy...