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

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