The Innovation Paradox : Developing-Country Capabilities and the Unrealized Promise of Technological Catch-Up.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Executive Summary -- 1. The Innovation Paradox -- Introduction: The Innovation Imperative -- The Innovation Paradox -- The Still-Bound Prometheus -- The Plan of the Report -- Notes -- References -- PART I: Understanding Innovation in Developing Countries -- 2. The Nature of Innovation in Developing Countries -- Introduction -- What Is Innovation? -- Characterizing Innovation in Developing Countries: Some Stylized Facts -- Concluding Remarks -- Annex 2A The World Bank Enterprise Survey Innovation Data -- Annex 2B Improving Innovation Measurement in Developing Countries -- Notes -- References -- 3. The Innovation Paradox and the National Innovation System -- Introduction -- The Innovation Paradox -- Innovation Complementarities -- Benchmarking Innovation Performance: How Do We Know Whether a Society Is Investing Enough in Innovation? -- Innovation Benchmarking in the Presence of Complementarities: Simulating Innovation Shortfalls -- Complementarities and the NIS -- Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- References -- 4. Managerial Practices as Key Firm Capabilities for Innovation -- Introduction -- Firm Capabilities for Innovation -- Measuring Capabilities -- New Empirical Evidence on Managerial Practices and Innovation -- Concluding Remarks -- Annex 4A A Review of Firm Capabilities for Innovation -- Notes -- References -- 5. Building and Accumulating Managerial Capabilities -- Introduction -- What Determines Managerial Practices -- External Sources of Learning -- Concluding Remarks -- Annex 5A Capabilities at Different Stages of Connection in GVCs -- Notes -- References -- PART II: Government Capabilities and Policy -- 6. Supporting Innovation: Agencies and Government Capability -- Introduction: The Innovation Policy Dilemma in Developing Countries.

Core Elements of Good Innovation Policy Making -- Agencies and Institutions to Support Innovation -- Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- References -- 7. Instruments to Support Firm Capabilities for Innovation -- Introduction -- The Instruments of the Innovation Policy Space -- Supporting the Capabilities Escalator: Innovation Policy Mixes and Convergence to the Technological Frontier -- Building Managerial and Organizational Practices for Innovation -- Subsequent Steps on the Capabilities Escalator -- Concluding Remarks -- Annex 7A The Capabilities Escalator in Singapore: The Menu of Instruments -- Notes -- References -- 8. The Continuing Challenge of Innovation and Capability Building in Developing Countries -- Note -- References -- Boxes -- 1.1 The Concept of Innovation -- 1.2 Innovation and Development Outcomes -- 2.1 Defining Firm-Level Innovation -- 2.2 Problems in Innovation Measurement -- 3.1 Complementarities: A Basic Neoclassical Intuition -- 3.2 Estimating the Rates of Return to R&amp -- D -- 4.1 Managerial Practices and Innovation in Vietnam -- 4.2 The New Data on Management Quality -- 4.3 Estimating the Augmented Knowledge Creation Function -- 5.1 Why Do China's Best Firms Lag in Management Quality? -- 5.2 Lessons from China for Apparel Sector Innovation and Upgrading -- 6.1 The Public Expenditure Review of Innovation Policy -- 6.2 Good Innovation Policy Design Checklist -- 6.3 Challenges in Innovation Policy Design in Latin America -- 6.4 The Good Implementation Model of Innovation Policy: A Checklist -- 6.5 Weak Implementation in Latin America: Lessons from the PERs -- 6.6 Innovation and Political Commitment -- 6.7 The Rationale for Public Research Institutes -- 6.8 Matching the Supply and Demand for Knowledge in the Republic of Korea -- 7.1 Innovation Vouchers to Foster Innovation Activities and Collaboration.

7.2 Post-World War II Recovery and Firm Upgrading in Japan -- 7.3 National Quality Infrastructure -- 7.4 The Capabilities Escalator in Singapore -- 7.5 Agriculture Extension: The Case of EMBRAPA -- 7.6 Technology Centers: The Case of ASCAMM -- 7.7 Czech Supplier Development Program -- 7.8 Tax Incentives to R&amp -- D Projects -- Figures -- 1.1 The Capability to Innovate in 1900 Drives Income Levels Today -- 1.2 The Capabilities Escalator -- 2.1 The Innovation Function -- 2.2 Innovation Levels Vary by Country Income -- 2.3 All Sectors Innovate, but Innovation Rates Vary by Sector -- 2.4 Innovations That Are New to the Market Increase with Income per Capita -- 2.5 Patenting Activity Is Much Higher in the Richest Countries -- 2.6 Patents and R&amp -- D Expenditures Are Closely Related and Rise with Income -- 2.7 R&amp -- D Intensity Rises with Convergence to the Productivity Frontier -- 2.8 R&amp -- D per Worker on Imitation and Radical Innovation Also Rises with Convergence to the Productivity Frontier -- 2.9 R&amp -- D Intensity Rises with Income per Capita -- 2.10 Technology Licensing Is Lower in Less Developed Countries -- 2.11 Like R&amp -- D, Expenditures on Equipment and Training Are Higher in Firms Closer to the Frontier -- 2.12 Managerial Practices Are Better in Richer Countries -- 2A.1 Cleaned Data on Product Innovation Differ from Original Data -- 2A.2 Cleaned Data on Process Innovation Differ from Original Data -- 2B.1 UNESCO and Enterprise Survey Data Differ Greatly -- 2B.2 Returns to Innovation and Productivity -- 2B.3 Differences in Innovation Rates Reported between Short and Long Questionnaires Are Large -- 3.1 The Returns to Innovation and R&amp -- D in Developing Countries Are Not Higher in the Poorest Countries -- 3.2 Returns to R&amp -- D Trace an Inverted U-Shape across the Development Process.

3.3 Simulated Deviations from Optimal Innovation Investment Are Not Correlated with R&amp -- D/GDP -- 3.4 The Expanded National Innovation System (NIS) -- 4.1 Firm Capabilities for Innovation -- 4.2 The Quality of R&amp -- D and of Management Practices Are Highly Correlated -- 4.3 Innovation Outputs Are Associated with Better Management Practices -- 4.4 Better Management Quality Is Associated with Higher Innovation Outputs -- 4.5 U.S. Firms with Higher Management Quality Undertake More R&amp -- D and Patent More -- 4.6 R&amp -- D and Management Quality Affect the Probability of Introducing a Process or Product Innovation -- 4.7 Globally, Firms with Higher Management Quality Undertake More R&amp -- D and Patent More -- 4.8 The Effect of Management Quality on Innovation Index Increases with Management Quality in Mexico -- 4.9 Better Management Increases the Impact of R&amp -- D on Innovation -- 4.10 Performance Monitoring and Incentives Are Associated with Greater Innovation Index -- 5.1 U.S. Firms' Management Scores Exceed Those in Poor Countries across the Distribution -- 5.2 Improving Management Quality Implies Moving the Entire Distribution of Firms, Not Just the Laggards -- 5.3 Managerial Practices Are Better in Older Firms -- 5.4 Weaker Contracting Environments Lead to a Higher Incidence of Family Management and Weaker Capabilities -- 5.5 Firms Exposed to International Markets Have Better Managerial Practices and Are More Innovative -- 5.6 Foreign-Owned Firms Are More Innovative -- 5.7 Types of Innovation Differ at Different Stages of GVC Engagement -- B6.3.1 Evaluation of the Quality of Innovation Policy Design, Implementation, and Governance -- B6.3.2 Distribution of Mechanism of Intervention in the Policy Mix -- 6.1 Only a Small Share of Innovation Expenditures Support Diversification.

B6.6.1 Policy Discontinuity and Percent Change of U.S. GDP per Capita, Selected Latin American Countries, 1950-2010 -- B6.6.2 Correlation between Political Commitment on Innovation and Degree of Innovation Performance, Selected Latin American Countries -- 6.2 Entrepreneurs' Perceived Quality of Scientific Institutions and Degree of Private Sector-University Collaboration Is Higher in Advanced Countries -- 7.1 The Innovation Policy Space -- 7.2 The Capabilities Escalator: Innovation Policy Needs -- 7.3 The Capabilities Escalator: The Policy Mix Evolves from Less to More Sophistication -- 7.4 Management Extension Improved Management Practices in India and Colombia -- 7.5 Managers Tend to Overrate Their Abilities (Measured versus Self-Evaluated Management Practices Score) -- 7.6 Grants for Innovation Projects -- 7.7 Early-Stage Infrastructure and Advisory -- Tables -- 5.1 Parameters Determining Firms' Governance Structures -- 7.1 The Policy Mix in Different Stages of the National Innovation System.

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