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Saturday, 01 January 2005
Dynamics of Industry and Innovation: Organizations, Networks and Systems
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
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
Saturday, 01 January 2005
Capability Building for Catching Up: Historical, Empirical and Policy Dimensions
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
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
Saturday, 01 January 2005
Firms' Creative Capabilities, the Supporting Innovation System and Globalization in Southern Latin America: a Bleak Technological Outlook or a Myopic Standpoint? Evidence from a Developing Region in Brazil
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
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
Sunday, 01 January 2006
Learning Across Policy Regimes: The Impact of Protection vis -vis Competition in the Indian Automotive Industry
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
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
Sunday, 01 January 2006
Global Value Chains and Technological Capabilities: A Framework to Study Industrial Innovation in Developing Countries
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
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
Thursday, 01 January 2004
Diffusion of Academic R&D Capabilities as an Industrial Innovation Policy?- The Development of Israel's IT Industry
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
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
Tuesday, 01 January 2002
Globalization for Nation Building: Industrial Policy for High-Technology Products in Taiwan
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
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
Sunday, 01 January 2006
The Regional Dynamics of Innovation: A Comparative Case Study of Oil and Gas Industry Development in Stavanger and Aberdeen
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
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
Saturday, 01 January 2005
The Co-Evolution of Policy and Economic Development: A discussion on Innovative Regions
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
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
Sunday, 01 January 1995
Formulating Industrial Policy in Africa: 2000 and Beyond
This background paper for the 1995 Global Forum on Industry focuses on issues to be considered by the countries of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) in order…
- Authors Mudziviri Nziramasanga
- Year 1995
- Organisation UNIDO
- Publisher UNIDO Publication
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
Saturday, 01 January 2005
African Industrial Development - Beyond Impasse: The Case of Botswana, Tanzania and Zambia
The main objective of this paper is to examine critically the importance, performance and underweighting of the industrial sector in Sub-Saharan Africa focusing on three…
- Authors S. M. Kapunda
- Year 2005
- Organisation CODESRIA
- Publisher CODESRIA
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
Wednesday, 01 January 2003
Industrial Policy in Developing Economies: Developing Dynamic Comparative Advantage in the South African Automobile Sector
Mainstream economics and the Washington Consensus caution against industrial policies that target sectors, firms and regions. At the most they favour cross-sectoral policies which address…
- Authors Justin Barnes, Raphael Kaplinsky and Mike Morris
- Year 2003
- Organisation Institute of Development Studies
- Publisher IDS
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
Sunday, 01 January 2006
Can the Doha Round Benefit Africa's Industrial Sector?
The present study is aimed at assisting African countries to formulate concrete proposals related to market access for non-agricultural commodities. Accordingly, we will endeavour to…
- Authors Hakim Ben Hammouda, Stephen Karingi, Romain Perez and Mustapha Sadni-Jallab
- Year 2006
- Organisation Economic Commission for Africa
- Publisher UNDP
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
Saturday, 01 January 2005
Industrial Efficiency as an Economic Development Strategy for South Africa
South Africa is a developing country that currently has no obligation to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions under agreements such as the Kyoto Protocol. Moreover,…
- Authors Mark Howells and John A. Laitner
- Year 2005
- Organisation University of Cape Town
- Publisher ERC-UCT
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
Monday, 01 January 2001
Leading Issues on Africa's Path to Industrialization. The Role of Support Systems and Instruments
The purpose of this paper is to highlight a number of issues that impede sub-Saharan Africa's endeavour to achieve a higher degree of industrialization, with…
- Authors Kandeh Yumkella & Jebamalai Vinanchiarachi
- Year 2001
- Organisation UNIDO/CSAE
- Publisher UNIDO Publication
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
Monday, 01 January 2001
Defence Procurement and Regional Industrial Development in South Africa. A Case Study of the Eastern Cape
Offsets or industrial participation have become an increasingly important part of arms procurement, with the promise of economic benefits often being an important justification of…
- Authors P Dunne and Richard Haines
- Year 2001
- Organisation MUBS
- Publisher MUBS
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
Saturday, 01 January 2005
Local Production of Pharmaceuticals: Industrial Policy and Access to Medicines. An Overview of Key Concepts, Issues, and Opportunities for Future Research
Local production of pharmaceuticals in developing countries may be seen as helping to stimulate industrial policy and/or as stimulating pharmaceutical access to needed medicines. However,…
- Authors Warren A Kaplan & Richard Laing
- Year 2005
- Organisation HNP-The World Bank
- Publisher IBRD/The World Bank
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
Sunday, 01 January 2006
Biofuels Industrial Strategy of the Republic of South Africa
This document presents the proposed South African Biofuels Industrial Draft Strategy, outlining Government approach to addressing policy, regulations and incentives. Internationally, biofuels are growing, due…
- Authors Department of Minerals and Energy
- Year 2006
- Organisation Department of Minerals and Energy
- Publisher n/a
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
Tuesday, 01 January 2002
Is the MIDP a Model for Selective Industrial Policies?
This paper is a commentary which addresses the key issues in the South African automotive industry. The paper discusses the success of the motor industry…
- Authors Frank Flatters
- Year 2002
- Organisation TIPS/NEDLAC
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
Thursday, 01 January 2004
Energy Efficiency Programs and Policies in the Industrial Sector in Industrialized Countries
About 37% of the primary energy consumed both in the U.S. and globally is used by the industrial sector. A variety of energy efficiency policies…
- Authors Christina Galitsky, Lynn Price & Ernst Worrell
- Year 2004
- Organisation University of California
- Publisher Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource