There is growing recognition that innovation plays a key role in enhancing competitiveness and enable emerging economies catch up with rich countries. In this sense, Mexico needs to strengthen its national innovation system (NIS) in order to create wealth and reduce poverty and inequality. This...

This book integrates three analytical approaches: (i) local and regional innovation systems, (ii) technological spillovers from transnational corporations, and (iii) the processes of technological learning and accumulation of technological capabilities, and creating of absorptive capacities. The...

Several studies from different bodies of literature have studied public private interactions from different perspectives. The literature of National Systems of Innovation suggests that universities and public research centres (PRC) can make an important contribution to innovation (Lundvall 1992;...

It is now widely recognized that Universities can play a fundamental role on the performance of the firms’ innovation activities, because they are the main producers and transmitters of knowledge (Narin, Hamilton and Olivestro, 1997; Cohen, Nelson and Walsh, 2002; Arocena and Sutz, 2001). In the...

How are innovation capabilities created in a firm in an emerging economy, whydoes such a firm decide to start to innovate? These are two of the challenging questionsthat direct this study. A Mexican steel company, called "Steel Company", is the subjectof study. This company started to operate...