Learning, Capability Building and Innovation for Development

1. Introduction
Gabriela Dutrénit, Keun Lee, Richard Nelson, Luc Soete, Alexandre O. Vera-Cruz

2. The Generation of Domestic Technological Capabilities: Measuring the Impact of the Contributions of Jorge Katz
Gabriela Dutrénit

3. The Latin American Structuralist School and the Innovation Systems Perspective: Jorge Katz, Learning and Micro and Macro Connections
José E. Cassiolato, Helena Lastres, Flávio 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, Arturo Torres-Vargas

5. “Old” and “New” Approaches to Innovation Policy: A Systems Evolutionary 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

11. Macro, Meso and Micro Coordination and Technological Progress: Catch Up Experiences of Samsung and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation
Rajah Rasiah

12. Knowledge Regimes and Technological Catch Up
Keun Lee

13. Catching Up in the 21st Century: Globalization, Knowledge and Capabilities in Latin America, a Case for Natural Resource Based Activities
Michiko Iizuka, Luc Soete

14. Past Innovation Trajectories in Latin America and Current Innovation Trajectories in the Asian Driver Economies
Raphael Kaplinsky

Keywords: Political Science and International Relations, Development Studies, Poverty, Aid and Development, Development Policy, Social Work, Social Structure, Social Inequality, International Organization