Technological capabilities in the context of export-led growth

Ernst, Dieter; Mytelka, Lynn K.; Ganiatsos, Tom

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“…For example, case studies of the textile and clothing and electronics industries in the Taiwan province of China and the Republic of Korea confi rmed that interfi rm linkages, including subcontracting arrangements, were crucial channels of technological learning, in some cases even more important than direct channels such as foreign direct investment (San Gee and Kuo 1998 ;Ernst et al 1998). …”

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The Learning Economy and the Economics of Hope

Lundvall¹

2016

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The Anthem Studies in Innovation and Development aims to publish cutting-edge scholarship that pushes the boundaries of our understanding of how innovation impacts human and economic development. The aim is to promote a better understanding of innovation, evaluate ongoing approaches to analyse innovation capacity, and to generate a set of instructive readings that elaborate upon the role of innovation capabilities in enabling development, reducing inequality and eliminating poverty. The series is interested in exploring the role of technology and innovation in sustainable development (at the global or sectoral level), links between trade and innovation (including investment and intellectual property rights), the role of the state and new issues in the interface of innovation and industrial policy. The series is particularly interested in analytical approaches to institutional and evolutionary economics, new frameworks and constructs on capabilities building and economic history reviews of innovation and technological change.

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Section: Box 910 Innovation Systems and Development Thinkingmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Learning Economy and the Economics of Hope

Lundvall¹

2016

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“…Fourth, in weak developing countries, locally owned firms have been known to benefit from substantial demonstration effects from foreign firms or imported machinery and technology as witnessed in the Newly Industrialised Countries in East Asian countries [ Fransman, 1985;Lall, 1996;Kim, (1997Kim, ( :1999; Ernst, Mytelka and Ganiatsos, 1998;Rasiah, 2003;Cheung and Lin, 2004;Gachino, 2006;Costantini, 2011]. This was unlikely to be absent and had not received any attention in the Kenyan manufacturing industry.…”

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“…In order to understand whether technological skills and experiential knowledge acquired in foreign firms were transferred to the locally owned firms, considerable effort and time was put to examine labour mobility in foreign firms. Cases of mobility have been identified to result in technological spillovers (Gerschenberg, 1987;Behrman and Wallender, 1976;Pack, 1993;Ernst, Mytelka and Ganiatsos, 1998;Fosfuri, Massimo and Ronde, 2001;Glass and saggi, 2002;Blomstrom and Kokko, 2003;Sinai, 2004;Inzelft, 2008). All these investigations were intended to provide insight as to whether foreign firms participated in the human capital development effort in manufacturing.…”

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Technological Change from Foreign Firms: Firm-Level Case Studies in the Kenyan Context

Gachino¹

2012

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Foreign direct investment and technological spillovers are among the most widely studied to understand their role in learning, capability building and innovation management. The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of FDI in industrial development in the sub Saharan region but using an alternative framework taking Kenya as a case study country. Specifically, the paper investigates whether presence of FDI in manufacturing industry stimulates spillover occurrence. This is done following a unique analytical framework developed taking into consideration human resource development, linkages, competition and demonstration effects. On the basis of this framework, foreign presence stimulated spillover occurrence in Kenya's industry. There was tremendous evidence of learning, capability building and innovation due to spillover occurrence. The main limitation of this paper is that results obtained cannot be generalized since the five foreign firms studied cannot be considered comprehensive representatives of the entire manufacturing industry. The results need to change our thinking with regard to policy pertaining to the role FDI plays in a host country's industrial development. This paper presents the only known work based in Africa focusing on FDI, spillovers, learning, capability building and innovation. The case studies, though ambitious, present findings which need to change our thinking about the past results and methodologies of the past studies on FDI and spillovers.

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“…Especially useful here is work on measures of firm-level innovations (Lall,1992;Ernst and O'Connor, 1992;Rasiah, 1995;Bell and Pavitt, 1995;Hobday, 1995;. The last of these developed the first comprehensive taxonomy of firm-level capabilities required for production, investment, minor change, strategic marketing, establishing inter-firm linkages, and major changes.…”

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Technological capabilities in the context of export-led growth

Cited by 39 publications

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The Learning Economy and the Economics of Hope

The Learning Economy and the Economics of Hope

Technological Change from Foreign Firms: Firm-Level Case Studies in the Kenyan Context

Can Chinese IT Firms Develop Innovative Capabilities within Global Knowledge Networks?

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