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How Nations Learn : Technological Learning, Industrial Policy, and Catch-up by Arkebe Oqubay, Kenichi Ohno is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Authored by eminent scholars, the volume aims to generate interest and debate among policymakers, practitioners, and researchers on the complexity of learning and catch-up, particularly for twenty-first century late-late developers. The volume explores technological learning at the firm level, policy learning by the state, and the cumulative and multifaceted nature of the learning process, which encompasses learning by doing, by experiment, emulation, innovation, and leapfrogging. Why is catch-up rare? And why have some nations succeeded while others failed? What are the prospects for successful learning and catch-up in the twenty-first century? These are pertinent questions that require further research and in-depth analysis. The World Bank estimates that out of the 101 middle-income economies in 1960, only thirteen became high income by 2008. This volume examines how nations learn by reviewing key structural and contingent factors that contribute to dynamic learning and catch-up. Rejecting both the one-size-fits-all approach and the agnosticism that all nations are unique and different, the volume uses historical as well as firm-level, industry-level, and country-level evidence a

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Author

Arkebe Oqubay, Kenichi Ohno

Publisher

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9780191877155

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Economics, Technology, Political Science