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dc.contributor.authorBell, Martin
dc.date.accessioned2013-03-07T11:29:31Z
dc.date.available2013-03-07T11:29:31Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.identifier.citationBell, M. (2009) Innovation Capabilities and Directions of Development, STEPS Working Paper 33, Brighton: STEPS Centreen_GB
dc.identifier.isbn9781858647924
dc.identifier.urihttps://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/2457
dc.description.abstractThe central challenge in the original Sussex Manifesto centred on massively increasing the developing countries’ scientific and technological capabilities for creating new knowledge and shaping the technologies they used. It also stressed the need for radical change in the national and international contexts within which those capabilities would be accumulated and used. This paper reviews those ideas in their intellectual context of the late-1960s and early-1970s. With reference to industrial development broadly defined, it then outlines how our understanding about the accumulation of such innovation capabilities has changed since the 1960s, highlighting their role in shaping the direction of innovation and not just its rate. It notes, however, that other influential perspectives attach little importance to the role of industrial innovation capabilities in developing countries. On the one hand, they are seen as irrelevant when technologies from advanced economies can be acquired and absorbed. On the other, their most important components are often omitted from national S&T strategies that strengthen only centralised, public R&D capabilities. The paper therefore emphasises the importance of policies that seek to develop two kinds of complementarity: between widely dispersed local innovation capabilities and (a) technology imports, and (b) centralised R&D activities.en_GB
dc.description.sponsorshipESRCen_GB
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherSTEPS Centreen_GB
dc.relation.ispartofseriesSTEPS Working Paper;No.33
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/en_GB
dc.subjectDevelopment Policyen_GB
dc.subjectScience and Societyen_GB
dc.titleInnovation Capabilities and Directions of Developmenten_GB
dc.typeSeries paper (IDS)en_GB
dc.rights.holderSTEPS Centreen_GB
dc.identifier.externalurihttp://steps-centre.org/publication/innovation-capabilities-and-directions-of-development/en_GB


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