Latecomer Development: Innovation and Knowledge for Economic Growth

by Padmashree Gehl Sampath and Banji Oyelaran-oyeyinka

Book Overview

The most important issue for development centres on the debate about the centrality of knowledge, technology and innovation to the process of economic development. While this much is broadly agreed, what is at issue is the precise mechanics of overcoming economic development challenges in different contexts. At the heart of it all is about how economies at different levels deploy the unending streams of information and knowledge to developmental...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415749921
• ISBN13: 9780415749923
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"