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The role of the common innovation infrastructure in economic transition
Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2013.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/41988 The role of the common innovation infrastructure in economic transition Lamprecht, Johan ichelp@gibs.co.za Mutsila, Mpho UCTD Endogenous growth (Economics) Innovation infrastructure Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2013. Knowledge, innovation, and the pursuit of economic growth are concepts that the economists and policy makers around the world continue to investigate. As policy makers strive to improve the welfare of their nations, research suggests that perhaps innovation is the key that will unlock the gates of prosperity. Frameworks have been developed on how countries should build innovation capacity such as the study done by Furman, Porter and Stern (2002). These frameworks have been used to test developed nations such as Australia, Denmark and the United States as well as developing nations such as Taiwan and South Korea. Their findings suggest that certain strategies were more effective at fostering innovation in developed countries than in developing countries, highlighting that the effects of policy innovation are not homogeneous. This report investigated the innovation strategies that countries use to encourage innovation in order to induce economic transition. The findings suggest that there is an existence of the common innovation infrastructure in countries that are transitioning from efficiency-driven to innovation-driven development. These countries are using the common innovation infrastructure to encourage innovation. However, some countries are more effective at encouraging innovation than others. Measures that work for one country may not necessarily work for others. zkgibs2014 Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) MBA Unrestricted 2014-09-11T06:59:43Z 2014-09-11T06:59:43Z 2014-04-30 2013 Mini Dissertation Mutsila, M 2013, The role of the common innovation infrastructure in economic transition, MBA Mini Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/41988> http://hdl.handle.net/2263/41988 en © 2014 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Endogenous growth (Economics) Innovation infrastructure The role of the common innovation infrastructure in economic transition |
| title | The role of the common innovation infrastructure in economic transition |
| title_full | The role of the common innovation infrastructure in economic transition |
| title_fullStr | The role of the common innovation infrastructure in economic transition |
| title_full_unstemmed | The role of the common innovation infrastructure in economic transition |
| title_short | The role of the common innovation infrastructure in economic transition |
| title_sort | role of the common innovation infrastructure in economic transition |
| topic | UCTD Endogenous growth (Economics) Innovation infrastructure |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/41988 |