Product Description: This text explores the notion of a technological system and more specifically the distinction between modern and traditional technological systems. Using highly disaggregated data for a range of sectors and developing countries, this distinction has been applied to micro as well as macro-economy issues...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This work asks, "How can developing nations achieve cohesive national innovation systems which provide the foundations for technological progress and economic growth?", and, in answer, looks at a unified approach which draws upon economic, political, sociological and cultural factors...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)