Automobile original equipment manufacturers are expanding their production bases to emerging economies to expand their market reach and leverage the existing capacity for auto-component manufacturing and provide opportunities for suppliers and subcontractors to build innovation capabilities...

This paper argues that the development of targeted health technologies for poor people will require a new mix of technology, organizations and institutions which we conceptualize as new social technologies. Using a technology-market matrix, we explore these new social technologies which may...

This paper provides a review of the roles of knowledge access and learning as determinants of technological catch-up and focuses on the relationship between the quantifiable measures of elements of the knowledge regimes of sectors and the possibility of catch-up. Catching-up implications of the...

The following review aims to explore some of the connections between the capabilities approach and innovation economics to discover affinities and possible integrations. We begin the paper by presenting a brief overview of the two lines of enquiry: the relationship between innovation and growth...