Innovation, Catch-up and Leapfrogging: Policy Implications for Emerging Economies

Seminar Series: Science, Technology, and Globalization Project Special EventInvitation Only - Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer Building
December 4, 2013
8:30-10:30 a.m.

One of the puzzles about why some countries have stronger economic growth than others revolves around the so-called 'middle-income trap', the situation in which a country that has grown strongly gets stuck at a certain level. In this book, Keun Lee explores the reasons why examples of successful catching-up are limited and in particular, why the Asian economies, including China, have managed to move, or are moving, beyond middle-income status but economic growth has stalled in some Latin American countries. This is one of the first studies to demonstrate using patent analysis that the secret lies in innovative systems at the firm, sector and country levels which promote investment in what the author calls 'short-cycle' technologies and thereby create a new path different from that of forerunning countries. With its comprehensive policy framework for development as well as useful quantitative methods, this is essential reading for academic researchers and practitioners.

Please join us for a guest lecture by Professor Keun Lee. Professor Lee will discuss his new book,Schumpeterian Analysis of Economic Catch-up: Knowledge, Path-Creation, and the Middle-Income Trap (Cambridge University Press, November 2013). This event will be chaired by Professor Calestous Juma. It will be held in conjunction with Professor Juma's class, IGA-523, and  co-sponsored by the Center for Economic Catch-up at Seoul National University, South Korea.

Please join us for coffee from 8:30-9:00. The event will begin promptly at 9:00. Although this event is by invitation only, please contact Katherine Gordon if you are interested in attending. This event will be webcast live here: http://www.hks.harvard.edu/live. It will begin streaming 15 minutes before the event.



Contact:

STG Coordinator
79 John F. Kennedy Street, Mailbox 53, Cambridge, MA 02138
Email: katherine_gordon@hks.harvard.edu
Url: http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/project/39

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