Research Handbook on Innovation Governance for E – Towards Better Models

Research Handbook on Innovation Governance for Emerging EconomiesTowards Better Models\nAuthor(s): Stefan Kuhlmann, Gonzalo Ordez-Matamoros\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd\nISBN-13: 9781783471904, 978-1783471904\nSynopsis\nAlthough in recent years some emerging economies have improved their performance in terms of research and development (R) investment, outputs and innovative capacity, these countries are still blighted by extreme poverty, inequality and social exclusion. Hence, emerging countries are exposed to conditions which differ quite substantially from the dominant OECD model of innovation policy for development and welfare. This Research Handbook contributes to the debate by looking at how innovation theory, policy and practice interact, and explains different types of configurations in countries that are characterized by two contrasting but mutually reinforcing features: systemic failure and ren