Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/89427 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
LEM Working Paper Series No. 2006/01
Publisher: 
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Pisa
Abstract: 
We draw upon historical evidence from several countries and contemporary studies of national innovation systems to argue that indigenous systems of academic training and public researchhave been in the past important elements of the institutional structures supporting a country's economic catch up. Recent changes in the international economic environment, and the growing scientific basis for contemporary technologies, will make those systems even more important in the future. The contributions of universities and public labs to the development of indigenous technological capabilities have taken different forms in different countries and economic sectors. However, we note that, in contrast with current emphasis on university-based embryonic inventions and fundamental research, effective research programs have predominantly occurred in the application-oriented sciences and engineering, and have been oriented towards problemsolving, and the advancement of technologies of interest to a well-defined user-community.
Subjects: 
catch-up
public research
indigenous technological capabilities
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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