The State and Innovation Policy in Late Development: Evidence from South Africa and Malaysia

Oyelaran-Oyeyinka, Banji; Sampath, Padmashree Gehl

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The State and Innovation Policy in Late Development: Evidence from South Africa and Malaysia

dc.contributor.author	Oyelaran-Oyeyinka, Banji
dc.contributor.author	Sampath, Padmashree Gehl
dc.date.accessioned	2010-09-27T14:48:42Z
dc.date.available	2010-09-27T14:48:42Z
dc.date.issued	2008-09
dc.description	Presented at the GLOBELICS 6th International Conference 2008 22-24 September, Mexico City, Mexico.	en_US
dc.description	Plenary 1: Redefining development goals: Science, Technology and Innovation, sustainable growth, improvement of income distribution and social welfare
dc.description.abstract	This paper analyses the main institutional mechanisms that foster the emergence and performance of firms in knowledge-intensive sectors in developing countries. We use the empirical data collected in 2005 and 2006 in the South African computer hardware and software sectors and the Malaysian computer hardware sector to illustrate the linkages between interactive learning and technological capabilities and how state support plays a critical role in enabling this in the case of knowledge intensive industries. However, as the analysis in this paper shows, state support is not just implementing a set of policies that succeed elsewhere; it is the ability of the state to set up institutions that reflect a harmony between knowledge and physical infrastructure and the formal and informal institutional compensations that are important to, and structure the idiosyncratic exchange processes of developing economies.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1853/34904
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	Georgia Institute of Technology	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	GLOBELICS06. Plenary 1	en_US
dc.subject	Interactive learning	en_US
dc.subject	Technological capabilities	en_US
dc.subject	Knowledge	en_US
dc.subject	Institutions	en_US
dc.subject	Development	en_US
dc.subject	Innovation	en_US
dc.subject	South African hardware and software	en_US
dc.subject	Malaysian hardware	en_US
dc.title	The State and Innovation Policy in Late Development: Evidence from South Africa and Malaysia	en_US
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dc.type.genre	Proceedings
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