Global Value Chains Meet Innovation Systems: Are There Learning Opportunities for Developing Countries?

• Published in: World development Vol. 39; no. 7; pp. 1261 - 1269
• Main Authors: Pietrobelli, Carlo, Rabellotti, Roberta
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Elsevier Ltd 01.07.2011; Elsevier; Pergamon Press Inc
• Series: World Development
• Subjects: business enterprises; coevolution; Collaboration; Developing countries; Economic theory; global value chain; global value chain innovation system learning; governance; Innovation; innovation system; Innovations; International cooperation; International standards; Knowledge transfer; LDCs; Learning; risk; Studies; supply chain; Systems analysis; Theoretical analysis; Transactional analysis; Value chain; global value chain; learning; innovation system

The Innovation Systems (IS) literature tends not to emphasize the crucial impact of international knowledge and innovation exchange and collaboration through, for example, inter-firm and intra-firm networks and Global Value Chains (GVC). In developing countries this aspect is crucial, with integrati...