scholarly journals Financial Constraints and Innovation: Why Poor Countries Don't Catch Up

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuriy Gorodnichenko ◽  
Monika Schnitzer
2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 1115-1152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuriy Gorodnichenko ◽  
Monika Schnitzer

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Tsu-Yi Hung ◽  
Yu-Ju Hsiao ◽  
Shih-Wei Wu

This study investigated the advantage management strategies of a firm regarding the technological race in the manufacturing sector. This is to reveal whether firms adopt a catch-up or leapfrogging strategy in the competition for innovation. The results show that competition is fierce in the Taiwanese manufacturing industry. Taiwanese manufacturing firms (mostly SMEs) tend to adopt the “catch-up” strategy to keep up with their competitors in order to remain in the technological race. The result indicates that, under financial constraints, Taiwanese manufacturing firms attempt to invest in R&D to catch up with their rivals or to avoid being eliminated from the race.


Author(s):  
Jan-Erik Lane

<div><p><em>The so-called Third World must now start developing implementation strategies of the COP21 objectives. In both emerging economies and poor countries, CO2:s area rather high except some countries where CO2:s are very high. Thus, the energy reliance upon coal – wood or solid – as well as petroleum must be transformed somehow. Hydro power requires lots of water, which further global warming may deny – look at Venezuela today. Thus, major investments in wind, solar or/and nuclear power are called for, which will have to be partly financed by the COP21 superfund. Yet, implementing a major decarbonisation conflicts with the developmental goals of Third World countries whatever they may be: “catch-up”, reducing poverty, UN development framework, etc. Implementation theory (Wildavsky, Sabatier) teaches us humbleness about the likelihood of goal fulfillment.</em></p></div>


2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tryggvi Thor Herbertsson ◽  
Martin Paldam

1994 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul M Romer

This paper describes two strands of work that converged under the heading of ‘endogenous growth.’ One strand, which is primarily empirical, asks whether there is a general tendency for poor countries to catch up with rich countries. The other strand, which is primarily theoretical, asks what modifications are necessary to construct a theory of aggregate growth that takes the economics of discovery, innovation, and technological change seriously. The paper argues that the second strand of work will ultimately have a more significant impact on our understanding of growth and our approach to aggregate theory.


2006 ◽  
Vol 45 (4II) ◽  
pp. 1001-1009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naved Ahmad

Convergence is defined as the decreasing gap of GDP growth rates between leading and lagging countries. This thesis is based on the Veblen’s idea of “Advantages of Backwardness”. It states that a less developed country tends to grow, at a rate which is inversely proportional to its initial GDP per capita; that is, faster than more advanced countries. There are several reasons for this convergence across different countries. First, there is a scope for poor nations to absorb existing technology and to catch up advanced countries if the gap between country’s technologies is larger. Second, the development process is often characterised by a shift of resources from low productivity agriculture sector to high productivity industrial sector. The process certainly benefits more the poor nations because the capacity for such shift is more in poor countries than in rich countries.1


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