Edited by Alexandra Tsvetkova, Spatial Productivity Lab, OECD Trento Centre for Local Development, Italy, Jana Schmutzler, Assistant Professor, Delft Centre of Entrepreneurship, TU Delft, the Netherlands, Affiliated Associate Professor, Business School, Universidad del Norte, Colombia and Affiliated Researcher, Jackstädt Center of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Research, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany, Marcela Suarez, Research FellowFreie Universität Berlin, Germany and Alessandra Faggian, Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy

• Contents:1. Introduction. A context-specific two-way approach to the study of innovation systems in developing and transition countriesJana Schmutzler, Marcela Suarez, Alexandra Tsvetkova and Alessandra FaggianPart I. The role of public policies in developing and transforming national and sectoral innovation systems2. From industrialization to innovation: Building the Peruvian National System of Science, Technology and Innovation, 1968-2015 Miklos Lukacs de Pereny3. State of the National Innovation System of Armenia Tatevik Poghosyan4. The role of public policies in building-up a national pharmaceutical innovation system in Tunisia: Challenges after the Jasmine Revolution Nejla Yacoub5. Public policies to orient science, technology and innovation in healthcare towards inclusive development: Evidence from Brazil Cecilia Tomassini Urti6. The role of public policies in promoting innovations and innovation complementarities in developing countries: The case of Argentinian software industry Hernan Alejandro MoreroPart II. Innovation challenges and response strategies in national and sectoral innovation systems: A firm-level perspective7. Health biotechnology in Malaysia: Issues and challenges faced by the innovative biotechnology firmsGulifeiya Abuduxike and Syed Mohamed Aljunid 8. Collaborating to innovate: The case of the Nigerian mining industryOluseye Oladayo Jegede9. Collaboration among Hungarian SMEs in innovationLászló Csonka10. Developmental university in emerging innovation systems: The case of the Universidad Mayor de San Simón, BoliviaCarlos Gonzalo Acevedo Peña, Walter Mauricio Hernán Céspedes Quiroga and José Eduardo Zambrana Montán 11. The lost tiger in technological catch-up: Lessons learned and implications for latecomer strategic typologyXiao-Shan Yap and Rajah Rasiah12. Epilogue. Innovation systems in developing and transition countries: What is different, what is missing and what are the implications?Alexandra Tsvetkova, Jana Schmutzler and Marcela SuarezIndex

'This book makes important contributions both to theory and public policy. It develops the understanding of the concept national innovation systems by confronting it with the reality of ten developing and transition countries from four different continents. The case studies apply the concept to different sectors and technologies spanning from mining in Nigeria to the health sector in Brazil. Common themes are the importance of informal institutions and the systemic interdependence between national patterns of innovation on the one hand and patterns of interaction among firms on the other. One lesson that policy makers can learn from this diversity of experiences is that getting to know the specificity of your own national innovation system, including how it is linked to the rest of the world, is a prerequisite for smart policy and necessary in order to overcome path-dependency and social exclusion.'--Bengt-Ake Lundvall, Aalborg University, Denmark