Brics and Development Alternatives - Innovation Systems and Policies

Informationen zum Autor José Eduardo Cassiolato is Coordinator of RedeSist and Professor at the Institute of Economics, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is also a member of Globelics Scientific Committee – a Global Research Network on the Economics of Learning, Innovation and Competence. Virginia Vitorino is policy officer at the European Commission, Directorate-General for Research, International Cooperation Directorate. Bengt-Åke Lundvall is Professor in Economics at the University of Aalborg. He has worked on science and technology issues in relation to employment and international competitiveness and currently concentrates on innovation theory, national systems of innovation and competence building and on the analysis of the economics of knowledge. Klappentext This book provides a comparative analysis of the national innovation systems of the five BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) and the trends in their science, technology and innovation policies. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Foreword - Bengt-Åke Lundvall; Science, Technology and Innovation Policies in the BRICS Countries: an introduction; Achievements and Shortcomings of Brazil’s Innovation Policies; Prospective Agenda for Science and Technology and Innovation Policies in Russia; Science, Technology and Innovation Policies in India: Achievements and Limits; Science and Technology and Innovation Policy in China; The South African Innovation Policies: Potential and Constraint; Notes

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• Authors: Jose Eduardo Vitorino Cassiolato
• Assisted by: José Eduardo Cassiolato (Editor), Virginia Vitorino (Editor), Vitorino Virginia (Editor), Bengt-Åke Lundvall (Foreword)
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2011
• EAN: 9781843318309
• ISBN: 978-1-84331-830-9
• No. of pages: 198
• Series: Anthem European Studies; The Anthem-European Union Series; Anthem Frontiers of Global Political Economy and Development
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development, Development economics & emerging economies, Development economics and emerging economies