Sectoral Systems of Innovation and Production in Developing Countries: Actors, Structure and Evolution

401 Pages·2009·4.75 MB·English

by  Franco Malerba

Sectoral Systems
of Innovation and
Production in
Developing Countries
Actors, Structure and Evolution
Edited by
Franco Malerba
Professor of Industrial Economics, KITeS-CESPRI,
Bocconi University, Milan, Italy
Sunil Mani
Professor, Planning Commission Chair, Centre for
Development Studies, Trivandrum, Kerala, India
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Contents
Contributors vii
I. INTRODUCTION
1. Sectoral systems of innovation and production in
developing countries: an introduction 3
Franco Malerba and Sunil Mani
II. ACTORS AND STRUCTURE OF SECTORAL
SYSTEMS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
2. Why is the Indian pharmaceutical industry more
innovative than its telecommunications equipment industry?
Contrasts between the sectoral systems of innovation of the
Indian pharmaceutical and telecommunications industries 27
Sunil Mani
3. From innovation projects to knowledge networks: knowledge
as contingency in the sectoral organization of innovation 57
Fernando Perini
4. Learning, innovation and public policy: the emergence of
the Brazilian pulp and paper industry 99
Hannes Toivanen and Maria Barbosa Lima-Toivanen
5. The software sector in Uruguay: a sectoral systems of
innovation perspective 131
Marjolein Caniëls, Effi e Kesidou and Henny Romijn
6. Sectoral system of innovation in Brazil: refl ections about
the accumulation of technological capabilities in the
aeronautic sector (1990–2002) 156
Rosane Argou Marques and L. Guilherme de Oliveira
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III. DYNAMICS AND EVOLUTION OF SECTORAL
SYSTEMS
7. China’s threat and opportunity for the Thai and
Vietnamese motorcycle industries: a sectoral innovation
system analysis 207
Patarapong Intarakumnerd and Mai Fujita
8. ‘Low-tech’ industry: a new path for development? The case
of the salmon farming industry in Chile 232
Michiko Iizuka
9. Making a technological catch-up in the capital goods
industry: barriers and opportunities in the Korean case 259
Yoon-Zi Kim and Keun Lee
10. From ‘nuts and bolts’ to ‘bits and bytes’: the evolution of
Taiwan ICT in a global knowledge-based economy 287
Ting-Lin Lee
11. Prospects for Jatropha biofuels in Tanzania: an analysis
with strategic niche management 335
Janske van Eijck and Henny Romijn
Index 367
Contributors
Dr Franco Malerba, Professor of Industrial Economics, Director of
KITeS, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy
Dr Sunil Mani, Planning Commission Chair, Centre for Development
Studies, Trivandrum, Kerala, India
Dr Patarapong Intarakumnerd, College of Innovation, Thammasat
University, Bangkok, Thailand
Mai Fujita, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade
Organization, Chiba, Japan
Dr Marjolein Caniëls, Faculty of Management Sciences, Open University
of the Netherlands, The Netherlands
Dr Effi e Kesidou, Nottingham University Business School, University of
Nottingham, UK
Dr Henny Romijn, Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Innovation
Sciences, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Dr Ting-Lin Lee, Department of Asia Pacifi c Industrial and Business
Management, National University of Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Dr Michiko Iizuka, Researcher, United Nations University-MERIT,
Maastricht, The Netherlands and Visiting Fellow, SPRU – Science and
Technology Policy Research, University of Sussex, UK
Dr Keun Lee, Professor, Economics Department, Seoul National
University, Director of Center for Economic Catch-up, Seoul, Korea
Dr Yoon-Zi Kim, Senior Researcher, Overseas Economic Research
Institute, The Export-Import Bank of Korea, Seoul
Dr Fernando Perini, Program Offi cer, IPRU – International Development
Research Centre and Visiting Fellow, SPRU – Science and Technology
Policy Research, University of Sussex, UK
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Mr Janske van Eijck, MSc, General Manager, Diligent, Tanzania
Dr Hannes Toivanen, VTT – Technical Research Center of Finland
Dr Maria Barbosa Lima-Toivanen, Helsinki School of Economics, Finland
Dr Rosane Argou Marques, Senior Advisor, Brazilian Agency for Industrial
Development, Brasília, Brazil
Luiz Guilherme de Oliveira, University of Brasília, Brazil
PART I
Introduction

1. Sectoral systems of innovation and
production in developing countries:
an introduction
Franco Malerba and Sunil Mani
1. THE REASON FOR THIS BOOK
Sectoral systems of innovation and production have been a growing new
area of research in industrial economics and the economics of innovation.
This growth is due to two basic reasons. First, a sectoral system approach
considers a wide range of factors that aff ect innovation and production in
a sector. It places fi rms and the related capabilities and learning processes
as the major drivers of innovation and production. At the same time it
pays central attention to other relevant factors that aff ect innovation and
production in a sector: the variety of actors, networks, demand and insti-
tutions. In particular, a sectoral system approach examines innovation as
the result of both fi rms’ specifi c variables (such as fi rms’ learning and capa-
bilities, R&D and production investments, strategies and organizational
structure) and the type of knowledge and technologies that characterize
a sector, the links and interdependencies with other related sectors, the
role of actors (such as competitors, suppliers, users, universities, fi nancial
organizations, public agencies and the government), the characteristics of
demand and the type of institutions (such as standards, regulations and
norms). A second reason is that a sectoral system approach has a dynamic
perspective and takes a process view. Thus it pays a lot of attention to
exchange, competition, and cooperation in a coevolutionary setting. A
major conclusion of the sectoral system approach is that all these factors
and processes often diff er from sector to sector and consequently have to
be understood in their eff ects on innovation, diff usion and production. It
must be noted that the dimensions of sectoral systems are not necessarily
national: they may be also local or global.
Therefore the approach calls for a deep understanding of the interplay
between national systems and sectoral systems.
A sectoral system approach for the study of innovation and production
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