The innovation paradox : developing country capabilities and the unrealized promise of technological catch-up / / Xavier Cirera and William F. Maloney

• Autore: Cirera Xavier
• Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C. : , : World Bank, , [2017]
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxv, 186 pages) ; ; 26 cm
• Disciplina: 338.9/26091724
• Soggetto topico: Technological innovations - Developing countries; Information technology - Developing countries - Management; Organizational change - Developing countries
• Persona (resp. second.): MaloneyWilliam F <1959-> (William Francis)
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Executive Summary -- 1. The Innovation Paradox -- Introduction: The Innovation Imperative -- The Innovation Paradox -- The Still-Bound Prometheus -- The Plan of the Report -- Notes -- References -- PART I: Understanding Innovation in Developing Countries -- 2. The Nature of Innovation in Developing Countries -- Introduction -- What Is Innovation? -- Characterizing Innovation in Developing Countries: Some Stylized Facts -- Concluding Remarks -- Annex 2A The World Bank Enterprise Survey Innovation Data -- Annex 2B Improving Innovation Measurement in Developing Countries -- Notes -- References -- 3. The Innovation Paradox and the National Innovation System -- Introduction -- The Innovation Paradox -- Innovation Complementarities -- Benchmarking Innovation Performance: How Do We Know Whether a Society Is Investing Enough in Innovation? -- Innovation Benchmarking in the Presence of Complementarities: Simulating Innovation Shortfalls -- Complementarities and the NIS -- Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- References -- 4. Managerial Practices as Key Firm Capabilities for Innovation -- Introduction -- Firm Capabilities for Innovation -- Measuring Capabilities -- New Empirical Evidence on Managerial Practices and Innovation -- Concluding Remarks -- Annex 4A A Review of Firm Capabilities for Innovation -- Notes -- References -- 5. Building and Accumulating Managerial Capabilities -- Introduction -- What Determines Managerial Practices -- External Sources of Learning -- Concluding Remarks -- Annex 5A Capabilities at Different Stages of Connection in GVCs -- Notes -- References -- PART II: Government Capabilities and Policy -- 6. Supporting Innovation: Agencies and Government Capability -- Introduction: The Innovation Policy Dilemma in Developing Countries. ; Core Elements of Good Innovation Policy Making -- Agencies and Institutions to Support Innovation -- Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- References -- 7. Instruments to Support Firm Capabilities for Innovation -- Introduction -- The Instruments of the Innovation Policy Space -- Supporting the Capabilities Escalator: Innovation Policy Mixes and Convergence to the Technological Frontier -- Building Managerial and Organizational Practices for Innovation -- Subsequent Steps on the Capabilities Escalator -- Concluding Remarks -- Annex 7A The Capabilities Escalator in Singapore: The Menu of Instruments -- Notes -- References -- 8. The Continuing Challenge of Innovation and Capability Building in Developing Countries -- Note -- References -- Boxes -- 1.1 The Concept of Innovation -- 1.2 Innovation and Development Outcomes -- 2.1 Defining Firm-Level Innovation -- 2.2 Problems in Innovation Measurement -- 3.1 Complementarities: A Basic Neoclassical Intuition -- 3.2 Estimating the Rates of Return to R& -- D -- 4.1 Managerial Practices and Innovation in Vietnam -- 4.2 The New Data on Management Quality -- 4.3 Estimating the Augmented Knowledge Creation Function -- 5.1 Why Do China's Best Firms Lag in Management Quality? -- 5.2 Lessons from China for Apparel Sector Innovation and Upgrading -- 6.1 The Public Expenditure Review of Innovation Policy -- 6.2 Good Innovation Policy Design Checklist -- 6.3 Challenges in Innovation Policy Design in Latin America -- 6.4 The Good Implementation Model of Innovation Policy: A Checklist -- 6.5 Weak Implementation in Latin America: Lessons from the PERs -- 6.6 Innovation and Political Commitment -- 6.7 The Rationale for Public Research Institutes -- 6.8 Matching the Supply and Demand for Knowledge in the Republic of Korea -- 7.1 Innovation Vouchers to Foster Innovation Activities and Collaboration. ; 7.2 Post-World War II Recovery and Firm Upgrading in Japan -- 7.3 National Quality Infrastructure -- 7.4 The Capabilities Escalator in Singapore -- 7.5 Agriculture Extension: The Case of EMBRAPA -- 7.6 Technology Centers: The Case of ASCAMM -- 7.7 Czech Supplier Development Program -- 7.8 Tax Incentives to R& -- D Projects -- Figures -- 1.1 The Capability to Innovate in 1900 Drives Income Levels Today -- 1.2 The Capabilities Escalator -- 2.1 The Innovation Function -- 2.2 Innovation Levels Vary by Country Income -- 2.3 All Sectors Innovate, but Innovation Rates Vary by Sector -- 2.4 Innovations That Are New to the Market Increase with Income per Capita -- 2.5 Patenting Activity Is Much Higher in the Richest Countries -- 2.6 Patents and R& -- D Expenditures Are Closely Related and Rise with Income -- 2.7 R& -- D Intensity Rises with Convergence to the Productivity Frontier -- 2.8 R& -- D per Worker on Imitation and Radical Innovation Also Rises with Convergence to the Productivity Frontier -- 2.9 R& -- D Intensity Rises with Income per Capita -- 2.10 Technology Licensing Is Lower in Less Developed Countries -- 2.11 Like R& -- D, Expenditures on Equipment and Training Are Higher in Firms Closer to the Frontier -- 2.12 Managerial Practices Are Better in Richer Countries -- 2A.1 Cleaned Data on Product Innovation Differ from Original Data -- 2A.2 Cleaned Data on Process Innovation Differ from Original Data -- 2B.1 UNESCO and Enterprise Survey Data Differ Greatly -- 2B.2 Returns to Innovation and Productivity -- 2B.3 Differences in Innovation Rates Reported between Short and Long Questionnaires Are Large -- 3.1 The Returns to Innovation and R& -- D in Developing Countries Are Not Higher in the Poorest Countries -- 3.2 Returns to R& -- D Trace an Inverted U-Shape across the Development Process. ; 3.3 Simulated Deviations from Optimal Innovation Investment Are Not Correlated with R& -- D/GDP -- 3.4 The Expanded National Innovation System (NIS) -- 4.1 Firm Capabilities for Innovation -- 4.2 The Quality of R& -- D and of Management Practices Are Highly Correlated -- 4.3 Innovation Outputs Are Associated with Better Management Practices -- 4.4 Better Management Quality Is Associated with Higher Innovation Outputs -- 4.5 U.S. Firms with Higher Management Quality Undertake More R& -- D and Patent More -- 4.6 R& -- D and Management Quality Affect the Probability of Introducing a Process or Product Innovation -- 4.7 Globally, Firms with Higher Management Quality Undertake More R& -- D and Patent More -- 4.8 The Effect of Management Quality on Innovation Index Increases with Management Quality in Mexico -- 4.9 Better Management Increases the Impact of R& -- D on Innovation -- 4.10 Performance Monitoring and Incentives Are Associated with Greater Innovation Index -- 5.1 U.S. Firms' Management Scores Exceed Those in Poor Countries across the Distribution -- 5.2 Improving Management Quality Implies Moving the Entire Distribution of Firms, Not Just the Laggards -- 5.3 Managerial Practices Are Better in Older Firms -- 5.4 Weaker Contracting Environments Lead to a Higher Incidence of Family Management and Weaker Capabilities -- 5.5 Firms Exposed to International Markets Have Better Managerial Practices and Are More Innovative -- 5.6 Foreign-Owned Firms Are More Innovative -- 5.7 Types of Innovation Differ at Different Stages of GVC Engagement -- B6.3.1 Evaluation of the Quality of Innovation Policy Design, Implementation, and Governance -- B6.3.2 Distribution of Mechanism of Intervention in the Policy Mix -- 6.1 Only a Small Share of Innovation Expenditures Support Diversification. ; B6.6.1 Policy Discontinuity and Percent Change of U.S. GDP per Capita, Selected Latin American Countries, 1950-2010 -- B6.6.2 Correlation between Political Commitment on Innovation and Degree of Innovation Performance, Selected Latin American Countries -- 6.2 Entrepreneurs' Perceived Quality of Scientific Institutions and Degree of Private Sector-University Collaboration Is Higher in Advanced Countries -- 7.1 The Innovation Policy Space -- 7.2 The Capabilities Escalator: Innovation Policy Needs -- 7.3 The Capabilities Escalator: The Policy Mix Evolves from Less to More Sophistication -- 7.4 Management Extension Improved Management Practices in India and Colombia -- 7.5 Managers Tend to Overrate Their Abilities (Measured versus Self-Evaluated Management Practices Score) -- 7.6 Grants for Innovation Projects -- 7.7 Early-Stage Infrastructure and Advisory -- Tables -- 5.1 Parameters Determining Firms' Governance Structures -- 7.1 The Policy Mix in Different Stages of the National Innovation System.
• Sommario/riassunto: Since Schumpeter, economists have argued that vast productivity gains can be achieved by investing in innovation and technological catch-up. Yet, as this volume documents, developing country firms and governments invest little to realize this potential, which dwarfs international aid flows. Using new data and original analytics, the authors uncover the key to this innovation paradox in the lack of complementary physical and human capital factors, particularly firm managerial capabilities, that are needed to reap the returns to innovation investments. Hence, countries need to rebalance policy away from R&D-centered initiatives - which are likely to fail in the absence of sophisticated private sector partners - toward building firm capabilities, and embrace an expanded concept of the National Innovation System that incorporates a broader range of market and systemic failures. The authors offer guidance on how to navigate the resulting innovation policy dilemma: as the need to redress these additional failures increases with distance from the frontier, government capabilities to formulate and implement the policy mix become weaker. This book is the first volume of the World Bank Productivity Project, which seeks to bring frontier thinking on the measurement and determinants of productivity to global policy makers.
• Titolo autorizzato: The innovation paradox
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910954886203321
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• Serie: World Bank e-Library.