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Global Value Chains and Technological Capabilities: A Framework to Study Industrial Innovation in Developing Countries
Global Value Chains and Technological Capabilities: A Framework to Study Industrial Innovation in Developing Countries
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Morrison, Andrea
Pietrobelli, Carlo
Rabellotti, Roberta
Pietrobelli, Carlo
Rabellotti, Roberta
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This paper presents a critical review of the Global Value Chain literature in light of the
“Technological Capabilities” approach to innovation and learning in LDCs. It intends to contribute
to the GVC approach by setting out an original research agenda for studying their impact on
upgrading technological capability building. This form of industrial organization may be particularly
beneficial for firms located in LDCs, which are bound to source technology internationally.
However, the issues of learning, technological efforts and investments to create and improve
technological capabilities at the firm-level remain largely uncovered by this strand of literature. We argue that explicitly addressing these issues within the global value chains literature by using
the concepts developed by the technological capabilities literature may importantly contribute to
explain developing countries’ firms performance, and why and how they benefit in different
degrees from participating in global value chains.
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2006-10
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