Today, a large number of scholars studying development understand this process as involving learning and capability building. Capability building is an active, not a passive, process. It requires a purposeful effort from the learner's side, with support and commitment on allocation of time and resources toward learning activities. This process implies the possibility of failure as well as success, as we also learn from failures. A global cast of academics and policy makers examines economic development as a process of learning and technological accumulation, showing how economic development is a process involving creative destruction. While markets and market competition play major roles in structuring the development process, non-market institutions and government policies matter.

Autorentext
Morris Teubal, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Gustavo Crespi, Inter-American Development Bank, USA José Eduardo Cassiolato, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Helena Maria Martins Lastres, Brazilian Development Bank Michiko Iizuka, UNU-MERIT, the Netherlands Flávio Peixoto, Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics Rajah Rasiah, University of Malaya, Malaysia Keun Lee, Seoul National University, South Korea Raphael Kaplinsky, the Open University, UK Howard Pack, University of Pennsylvania, USA Alexandre O. Vera-Cruz, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico Gabriela Dutrenit, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico Valeria Arza, Argentinean National Research Council Bernardo Kosacoff, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina Mario Cimoli, University of Venice, Italy Gabriel Porcile, University of Parana, Brazil

Inhalt
1.Introduction; Gabriela Dutrénit, Keun Lee, Richard Nelson, Luc Soete and Alexandre O. Vera-Cruz 2. The Generation of Domestic Technological Capabilities: Measuring the Impact of the Contributions of Jorge Katz; Gabriela Dutrénit 3. The Latin American Structuralist School and the Innovation Systems Perspective: Jorge Katz, Learning and Micro and Macro Connections; José E. Cassiolato, Helena Lastres and Flávio Peixoto 4. The Significance of Jorge Katz's Work for the Understanding of Learning and Technological Capability Building in Developing Countries; Alexandre O. Vera-Cruz and Arturo Torres Vargas 5. 'Old and New' Approaches to Innovation Policy: a Systems Evolutionary (S/E) Perspective; Morris Teubal 6. Industrial Productivity in Developing Nations; Howard Pack 7. Productivity and Firm Heterogeneity in Chile; Gustavo Crespi 8. Developing Competing Capabilities in the Argentinean Industry (1958-2008); Bernardo Kosacoff 9. Micro-Macro Interactions in Technological Learning and Growth; Mario Cimoli & Gabriel Porcile 10. The Social Dimension of Behaviour: Macroeconomic Uncertainty and Firms' Investment in R&D and in Machinery in Argentina; Valeria Arza 11. Macro, Meso and Micro Coordination and Technological Progress: Catch Up Experiences of Samsung and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation; Rajah Rasiah 12. Knowledge Regimes and Technological Catch-up; Keun Lee 13. Catching Up in the 21st Century: Globalization, Knowledge and Capabilities in Latin America, a Case for Natural Resource Based Activities; Michiko Iizuka and Luc Soete 14. Past Innovation trajectories in Latin America and current innovation trajectories in China; Raphael Kaplinsky