Global Innovation in Emerging Economies

ISBN-13: 9780415879668 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 320 str.

Prasada Reddy

Opis

In recent decades, there have been significant changes in the way corporate innovation activities are performed. They include changes in the innovation process, flexibility to outsource certain innovation activities, and by far, the most important one, wider choice in the location of innovation. What caught the most attention of is the trend towards globalization of research and development (R&D) and thereby performance of innovation activities away from the home countries.

Spis treści

1. Introduction 2. Global Business Environment 3. Globalization of Innovation – A Conceptual Framework 4. Innovation Environment in Emerging Economies 5. Global Innovation in India 6. Global Innovation in China 7. Global Innovation in Brazil 8. Global Innovation in South Africa 9. Implications for Innovation Systems 10. Innovations in Emerging Economies: Implications for Other Developing Countries (South-South Dimension) 11. Summary and Conclusions

O autorze

Prasada Reddy is a faculty member at the Research Policy Institute, Lund University, Sweden. He also worked at the Centre for Entrepreneurship, University of Oslo. He has been a consultant to several multilateral organizations. His broad areas of work include: foreign direct investments, industrialization, innovation and intellectual property rights.