1872 Pages
    by Routledge India

    by Routledge India

    This series of books brings together results of an extensive research programme on aspects of the national systems of innovation (NSI) in the five BRICS countries — Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. It provides a comprehensive and comparative examination of the challenges and opportunities faced by these dynamic and emerging economies. In discussing the impact of innovation with respect to economic, geopolitical, socio-cultural, institutional, and technological systems, it reveals the possibilities of new development paradigms for equitable and sustainable growth. Original and detailed data, together with expert analyses on wide-ranging issues, make this book an invaluable resource for researchers and scholars in economics, development studies and political science, in addition to policymakers and development practitioners interested in the BRICS countries.

    The Role of the State: Introduction: BRICS National Systems of Innovation, 1. The State and the Architecture of National Systems of Innovation 2. Brazil 3. Russia 4. India 5. China 6. South Africa. The Promise of Small and Medium Enterprises: Introduction: BRICS National Systems of Innovation, 1. Small Fish in a Big Pond: SME and Innovation in BRICS Countries 2. Local Productive Systems and SME Development in Brazil 3. Innovation in Russian SMEs: Growth under Transition 4. On Learning, Innovation and Competence Building in India’s SMEs: The Challenges Ahead 5. National Innovation Systems in China: Role of SMEs 6. National Systems of Innovation and Small Enterprise Development in South Africa. 1. FDI and National Systems of Innovation: Lessons from the Experience of BRICS 2. Transnational Corporations and the Brazilian National System of Innovation.3 Transnational Corporations and Russia’s National Innovation System 4. Foreign Direct Investment and National Innovation System: Evidence from India 5. The Role of Transnational Corporations in the National Innovation System: The Case of China 6 ARMED CONFLICTS IN SOUTH ASIA 20086. Transnational Corporations and National Systems of Innovation: The Case of South Africa. Financing Innovation: Introduction: BRICS National Systems of Innovation 1. The Financing of Innovation 2. Innovation, Finance and Funding in the National System of Innovation: The Brazilian Case 3 The Russian Federation 4. India 5. China 6. South Africa. Inequality and Development Challenges: Introduction: BRICS National Systems of Innovation 1. The Co-evolution of Innovation and Inequality 2. Inequality, Innovation System and Development: The Brazilian Experience 3. National Innovation System and Inequality in Russia 4. Dealing with the Innovation–Inequality Conundrum: The Indian Experience 5. Innovation System and Inequality Reduction in China 6. South Africa: The Need to Disrupt the Co-evolution of the Innovation System and Inequality.

    Biography

    Michael Kahn, Luiz Martins de Melo, Marcelo G. Pessoa de Matos