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1 online resource (519 p.) |
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Routledge Studies in Development Economics Ser |
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Routledge Studies in Development Economics Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Abbreviations -- Preface and acknowledgements -- 1 General introduction and methodological considerations -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Research design and data collection -- 1.3 On prediction and testing -- 1.4 Research tools -- 1.5 Case selection -- 1.6 Historical specificity in case studies in economics -- Notes -- References -- Part I Theory and conceptualization -- 2 Economies as networks -- 2.1 The economy as a complex system |
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2.2 Innovation as a relational process -- 2.3 The economy as a purposeful system -- 2.4 The economy: A system as a whole -- 2.5 The historical dimension of economic evolution -- 2.5.1 Meso-economics: Institutions as analytical unit -- 2.5.2 Implication for the analysis of economic growth -- 2.6 The conception of networks at work -- 2.6.1 The network approach -- 2.6.2 Hub dominated networks vs. ideal "random" networks -- 2.6.3 Social network research -- 2.6.4 The notion of centrality -- Notes -- References -- 3 The state as networker -- 3.1 The need of a conceptualization of government agency |
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3.2 Anti-interventionist theories -- 3.3 Industrial policy as a recurrent theme -- 3.4 The ownership issue: States enterprises -- 3.5 The usual neglect: Shaper but not selector -- 3.6 Market/government dichotomy -- 3.7 The state as crucial hub within the complex economic network -- 3.7.1 The risk taking function: Standards formally set vs. informally emerged -- 3.7.2 Hub diversity and hierarchy -- 3.7.3 Dynamically coherent agents (DCA) -- 3.7.4 Dynamic incoherent agents (DIA): The true agents of change -- 3.7.5 Government agency as a DIA -- Notes -- References |
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4 National systems of innovation: State-based non-firm organizations (NFOs) as integrators -- 4.1 The origin of growth -- 4.2 The necessity of a systemic approach to innovation: The neo-Schumpeterian approach -- 4.3 Systems of innovation as networks -- 4.4 Defining NFOs -- 4.5 The national dimension of the systems of innovation: The role of state's NFOs -- 4.6 The sectoral systems of innovation -- 4.7 A network within networks: The theory of the innovative business enterprise -- 4.8 The concept of organizational integration -- 4.9 System integrators |
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4.10 NFOs as locus of organizational integration -- 4.11 Organizational integration from a network perspective -- 4.12 NFOs in leading and in catch-up economies -- Notes -- References -- Part II Contextualization and analysis of the case -- 5 Cuban institutions and industrial policy until 1989 -- 5.1 Political change as institutional change -- 5.2 Before 1959 -- 5.3 Brief remarks on Cuban socialism -- 5.3.1 The beginning -- 5.3.2 Social progress as a prerequisite -- 5.3.3 Developmental vs. anti-developmental elements -- 5.4 Main institutional changes since 1959 -- 5.4.1 Period 1959-1964 |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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5.4.2 The National Land Reform Institute |
| Subject |
Business enterprises-Technological innovations-Cuba
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Technology and state-Cuba
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Organizational change-Cuba
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351364300 |
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1351364308 |
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