The productivity and competitiveness of local firms in non-OECD countries depends as much on technological capacities and successful upgrading as in industrialized countries. However, developing countries undertake very little to no original R&D and primarily depend on foreign technology....

The productivity and competitiveness of local firms in non‐OECD countries depends as much on technological capacities and successful upgrading as in industrialized countries. However, developing countries undertake very little to no original R&D and primarily depend on foreign technology....

The productivity and competitiveness of local firms in non-OECD countries depends as much on technological capacities and successful upgrading as in industrialized countries. However, developing countries undertake very little to no original R&D and primarily depend on foreign technology....

This paper is trying to investigate the effect of State Business Relations (SBR) and institutional settings on the development of innovational capacities in developing countries. It differentiates between informal SBR-based cronyism and formal SBR-based lobbying and how they could influence...

Wenn die internationale Finanzkrise nicht zu lange andauert, könnten die meisten Entwicklungsländer im Nahen Osten und Nordafrika (MENA-Region) - anders als in anderen Teilen der Welt - mit einem blauen Auge davon kommen. Wie in anderen Weltregionen überträgt sich die Krise auch in dieser...