Maria Clara Couto Soares is Senior Researcher, Research Network on Local Productive and Innovative Systems-RedeSist, Institute of Economics, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Mario Scerri is Professor of Economics, Tshwane University of Technology, and Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Economic Research on Innovation (IERI), South Africa. Rasigan Maharajh is Chief Director, Institute for Economic Research on Innovation, Faculty of Economics and Finance, Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa.

• List of Abbreviations . List of Figures. List of Tables. Foreword Judith Sutz. Preface. Introduction: BRICS National Systems of Innovation Jose É. Cassiolato and Maria Clara Couto Soares 1. The Co-evolution of Innovation and Inequality Mario Scerri, Maria Clara Couto Soares and Rasigan Maharajh 2. Inequality, Innovation System and Development: The Brazilian Experience Maria Clara Couto Soares and Maria Gabriela Podcameni 3. National Innovation System and Inequality in Russia Stanislav Zaichenko 4. Dealing with the Innovation–Inequality Conundrum: The Indian Experience K. J. Joseph, Lakhwinder Singh and Vinoj Abraham 5. Innovation System and Inequality Reduction in China Xielin Liu, Shucheng Han and Ao Chen 6. South Africa: The Need to Disrupt the Co-evolution of the Innovation System and Inequality Lucienne Abrahams and Thomas E. Pogue. About the Series Editors. About the Editors. Notes on Contributors. Index

‘From a developmental point of view, a main issue is to orient innovation efforts in a direction that diminishes inequality, and to make inequality a point of departure for innovation efforts . . . The reader will find in this book all the information and analyses needed to understand how inequality looks like in the BRICS countries [and] how innovation can help fight inequality. The opportunity to do this, so rare, so timely, so welcome, is a contribution of the book to the wedding of innovation and solidarity.’ — Judith Sutz, Academic Coordinator, Scientific Research Council, University de la República, Uruguay