The Challenges of Technology and Economic Catch-up in Emerging Economies

Jeong-Dong Lee, Professor of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program on Technology Management, Economics, and Policy, Seoul National University,Keun Lee, Professor of Economics and Head of the Center for Comparative Economic Studies, Seoul National University,Dirk Meissner, Distinguished Professor and Head of the International Laboratory for Economics of Innovation, National Research University Higher School of Economics,Slavo Radosevic, Professor of Innovation Studies, University College London,Nicholas Vonortas, Professor of Economics and International Affairs and Director of the Institute of International Science and Technology Policy, The George Washington University

Jeong-Dong Lee is a Professor of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program on Technology Management, Economics, and Policy at Seoul National University. He is an editor of the journal Science and Public Policy. Since 2019, he has served as the Special Advisor to the President for Economy and Technology in the Office of the President, The Republic of Korea.


Keun Lee is a Professor of Economics and Head of the Center for Comparative Economic Studie at Seoul National University. He is an editor of Research Policy, and an associate editor of Industrial and Corporate Change. He previously served as the President of the International Schumpeter Society, and a member of the Committee for Development Policy of the UN.


Dirk Meissner is Distinguished Professor and Head of the International Laboratory for Economics of Innovation at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow. He serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Knowledge Management and International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management.


Slavo Radosevic is Professor of Innovation Studies at the University College London where he has also been acting and deputy director of the School of Slavonic and East European Studies. He acts as an expert for the EC, OECD, UNESCO, UNIDO, World Bank, UNECE, and several governments in CEE.

Nick Vonortas is Professor of Economics and International Affairs and Director of the Institute of International Science and Technology Policy at The George Washington University. He also holds a 'S?o Paulo Excellence Chair' in Technology and Innovation Policy at the University of Campinas, Brazil, and is an editor of the journal Science and Public Policy.

1. Technology Upgrading and Economic Catch-Up: Context, Overview, and Conclusions, Jeong-Dong Lee, Keun Lee, Dirk Meisner, Slavo Radosevic, and Nicholas Vonortas
Section I - Technology Capability and Growth Performance at the Country Level
2. Capabilities, Competitiveness, Nations, Jan Fagerberg and Martin Srholec
3. Technology Upgrading in Emerging Economies: A New Approach to its Measurement, Results, and Relationship to Mainstream Measures, Kirill Osaulenko and Slavo Radosevic
4. Middle Innovation Trap: Capability Transition Failure and Stalled Economic Growth, Jeong-Dong Lee, Chulwoo Baek, and Jung-In Yeon
5. Economics of Technological Leapfrogging, Keun Lee
6. Innovation Surveys as Evidence of Technological Upgrading and Catch-Up Studies, Vitaliy Roud
Section II - Technology Capability Upgrade and Sectoral Catch-Up
7. Macro and Micro Foundations for Technology Upgrading and Innovation: The Case of Shipbuilding and Offshore Industry Missed Window of Opportunity in Brazil, Andr? Cherubini Alves, Nicholas S. Vonortas, and Paulo Ant?nio Zawislak
8. Technology Upgrading in Natural Resource-Intensive Industries: Evidence from the Brazilian Mining Industry, Paulo N Figueiredo and Janaina Piana
9. Upgrading Non-technological Capabilities: Evidence from Korean Firms, Jae-Yong Choung and Hye-Ran Hwang
Section III - Emerging Paradigm on Technology Capability Upgrading
10. Catching Up or Developing Differently? Techno-Institutional Learning with a Sustainable Planet in Mind, Tilman Altenburg
11. Leapfrogging on Steroids: China's Green Growth Strategies, John A. Mathews
12. Innovation for Inclusive Structural Change, Tommaso Ciarli, Maria Savona, and Jodie Thorpe
13. Evolutionary Spheres that Condition the Technological Capabilities Accumulation in Latin America, Gabriela Dutr?nit, Jos? Miguel Natera, Mart?n Puchet, and Alexandre O. Vera-Cruz
Section IV - Innovation Policy for Technology Upgrading
14. Using Large-Scale Programs to Help Develop Technological Capabilities: Cases in China, Xudong Gao
15. Industrial and Innovation Policies in a World of Global Value Chains, Carlo Pietrobelli
16. Experimentalist Governance for Technology Upgrading: New Industrial Policy Process, Yevgeny Kuznetsov