Developing National Systems of Innovation

Edited by Eduardo Albuquerque, Professor, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Wilson Suzigan, Professor, UNICAMP – State University of Campinas, Brazil, Glenda Kruss, Research Director, Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa and Keun Lee, winner of the 2014 Schumpeter Prize, and Professor, Seoul National University, Korea

• Contents:Preface Richard R. NelsonIntroductionGlenda Kruss, Keun Lee, Wilson Suzigan and Eduardo AlbuquerquePART I: INTERACTIONS ACROSS REGIONS AT DIFFERENT STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT1. Bracing for Change: Making Universities and Firms Partners for Innovation in Sub-Saharan AfricaGlenda Kruss, John O. Adeoti, and Dani Nabudere2. Are University–Industry Links Meaningful for Catch-Up? A Comparative Analysis of Five Asian CountriesDaniel Schiller and Keun Lee3. Features of Interactions between Public Research Organizations and Industry in Latin America: The Perspective of Researchers and FirmsGabriela Dutrénit and Valeria Arza4. China’s University–Industry Links in TransitionJong-Hak Eun, Yi Wang and Guisheng WuPART II: DYNAMIC INTERACTIONS: MATCHES AND MISMATCHES OVER TIME5. Relevance of University–Industry Links for Firms from Developing Countries: Exploring Different SurveysMarcelo Pinho and Ana Cristina Fernandes6. Channels and Benefits of Interactions between Public Research Organizations and Industry: Comparing Country Cases in Africa, Asia, and Latin AmericaValeria Arza, Claudia De Fuentes, Gabriela Dutrénit and Claudia Vazquez 7. Matrices of University–Firm Interactions in Latin AmericaEduardo Albuquerque, Wilson Suzigan, Valeria Arza and Gabriela Dutrénit PART III: TOWARD A FRAMEWORK OF GLOBAL INTERACTIONS BETWEEN UNIVERSITIES AND FIRMS8. Global Interactions between Firms and Universities: A Tentative Typology and an Empirical InvestigationLeonardo Ribeiro, Gustavo Britto, Glenda Kruss, and Eduardo AlbuquerquePostscriptResearching University–Industry Links: Where Do We Go from Here?David O’Brien and Isabel Bortagaray ReferencesIndex

‘This book reports a study on the patterns of interactions between universities, public laboratories, and business firms in the context of immature National Systems of Innovation. This is done in a comprehensive fashion, through the analysis of twelve countries in different stages of the catching up process in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. . . . a major contribution of this book is making a case that research on developing countries should go beyond the study of linkages between academia and industry, casting a wider net toward other actors in society.’