The innovation systems (IS) approach emerged as a theoretical framework in
the industrialized world in the mid-1990s to explain innovation and growth in the
developed world. This Handbook is the first attempt to adapt the IS approach to developing
countries from a theoretical and empirical viewpoint.
The Handbook brings eminent scholars in economics, innovation and development
studies together with promising young researchers to review the literature and push
theoretical boundaries. They critically review the IS approach and its adequacy for
developing countries, discuss the relationship between IS and development, and address the
question of how it should be adapted to the realities of developing nations.
Spanning national, sectoral and regional innovation systems across Asia, Latin America and
Africa, and written by the world’s leading scholars within the field, this comprehensive
Handbook will strongly appeal to academics, researchers and students with an interest in
innovation and technology in developing countries.
Edited by Bengt-Ake Lundvall, Professor of Economics, Department of
Business Studies, Aalborg University, Denmark and Professor, Sciences-Po, Paris, France,
K.J. Joseph, Professor, Centre for Development Studies, India, Cristina Chaminade,
Associate Professor, Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the Learning
Economy (CIRCLE), Lund University, Sweden and Jan Vang, Associate Professor, Copenhagen
Institute of Technology, Aalborg University, Denmark
Contents:
1. Innovation System Research and Developing Countries
Bengt-Ake Lundvall, Jan Vang, K.J. Joseph and Cristina Chaminade
PART I: INNOVATION AND DEVELOPMENT
2. Building Inclusive Innovation Systems in Developing Countries: Challenges for
IS Research
Tilman Altenburg
3. Innovation, Poverty and Inequality: Cause, Coincidence, or Co-evolution?
Susan E. Cozzens and Raphael Kaplinsky
4. Innovation Systems, Technology and Development: Unpacking the Relationships
Jan Fagerberg and Martin Srholec
PART II: SCALES IN INNOVATION SYSTEMS: THEORETICAL PROGRESS AND EMPIRICAL
OVERVIEW
5. National Innovation Systems in Developing Countries: The Chinese National
Innovation System in Transition
Xielin Liu
6. Regional Innovation Systems in Developing Countries: Integrating Micro and
Meso-level Capabilities
Ramón Padilla-Pérez, Jan Vang and Cristina Chaminade
7. Sectoral Innovation Systems in Developing Countries: The Case of ICT in India
K.J. Joseph
8. The Global Dimension of Innovation Systems: Linking Innovation Systems and
Global Value Chains
Carlo Pietrobelli and Roberta Rabellotti
PART III: BUILDING BLOCKS IN INNOVATION SYSTEMS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES:
CHALLENGES UNDER GLOBALIZATION
9. The Role of Indigenous Firms in Innovation Systems in Developing Countries: The
Developmental Implications of National Champion Firms’ Response to Underdeveloped
National Innovation Systems
Helena Barnard, Tracy Bromfield and John Cantwell
10. The Role of Multinational Corporations in National Innovation Systems in
Developing Countries: From Technology Diffusion to International Involvement
Anabel Marin and Valeria Arza
11. The Role of Universities in Innovation Systems in Developing Countries:
Developmental University Systems – Empirical, Analytical and Normative Perspectives
Claes Brundenius, Bengt-Ake Lundvall and Judith Sutz
PART IV: IS-BASED POLICIES IN THE NEW GLOBAL SETTING
12. Institutions and Policies in Developing Economies
Mario Cimoli, Giovanni Dosi, Richard R. Nelson and Joseph E. Stiglitz
13. Designing Innovation Policies for Development: Towards a Systemic
Experimentation-based Approach
Cristina Chaminade, Bengt-Ake Lundvall, Jan Vang and K.J. Joseph
Epilogue: Which Way Now?
Bengt-Ake Lundvall, K.J. Joseph, Cristina Chaminade and Jan Vang
Index
416 pages, Hardcover
