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The Rise of Technological Power in the South

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  • © 2010

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Editors:
  1. Xiaolan Fu

    1. University of Oxford, UK

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  2. Luc Soete

    1. United Nations University-Maastricht Economic and social Research and training centre on Innovation and Technology, The Netherlands

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiv
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Xiaolan Fu, Luc Soete
      Pages 1-12

  5. Innovation Systems and Technological Capabilities

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 145-145
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    2. The Finance of Innovative Investment in Emerging Economies

      • Jörg Mayer
      Pages 147-169

    3. A Comprehensive Model of Technological Learning: Empirical Research on the Chinese Manufacturing Sector

      • Jin Chen, Xiaoyu Pu, Haihua Shen
      Pages 170-185

    4. The Innovation of SMEs and Development of Industrial Clusters in China

      • Jinmin Wang
      Pages 186-200

  6. Foreign Direct Investment and Technology Transfer

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 201-201
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    2. FDI, R&D and Innovation Output in the Chinese Automobile Industry

      • Chen Fang, Pierre Mohnen
      Pages 203-220

    3. The Role of FDI in the Development of Innovative Capacity: The Case of Russian Companies

      • Juha Väätänen, Daria Podmetina, Marina Aleksandrova
      Pages 221-237

    4. Human Capital and Technological Spillovers from FDI in the Chinese Regions: A Threshold Approach

      • Miao Fu, Tieli Li
      Pages 238-257

    5. Transnational Corporations from Emerging Economies and South-South FDI

      • Torbjörn Fredriksson
      Pages 258-277

  7. Technology and Sustainable Development

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 279-279
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About this book

This book explores the drivers of technological upgrading and catch-up in the emerging economies, paying specific attention to technology and innovation policies, national innovation systems, the role of foreign direct investment and small and medium enterprises. It provides practical implications for other developing countries.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Oxford, UK

    Xiaolan Fu

  • United Nations University-Maastricht Economic and social Research and training centre on Innovation and Technology, The Netherlands

    Luc Soete

About the editors

XIAOLAN FU is Director of Sanjaya Lall Programme for Technology and Management for Development, University Lecturer in Development Studies and Fellow of Green-Templeton College at Oxford University, UK. She is the author of Exports, Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Development in China, and received the EC Gate2Growth Academic Network 2005 'European Best Paper' Award. Dr Fu serves on the Advisory Expert Group of the OECD Global Investment Forum and is President-elect of the Chinese Economic Association (Europe/UK). She is also a Senior Research Associate at the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge.
 
LUC SOETE is Director of UNU-MERIT and Professor of International Economic Relations at Maastricht University, The Netherlands. He obtained his first degrees in economics and development economics at the University of Ghent, Belgium, before obtaining his DPhil in economics at the University of Sussex. Before coming to Maastricht in 1986, he worked at the Institute of Development Studies and the Science Policy Research Unit, both at the University of Sussex. He has published widely on the economics of technological change and innovation.

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