World Development - a top journal on International Development Studies has revealed its most cited articles and TMCD is delighted that our director - Prof Xiaolan Fu co-authored one such article. Entitled "The Role of Foreign Technology and Indigenous Innovation in the Emerging Economies: Technological Change and Catching-up", the article involved distinguished researchers, Carlo Pietrobelli (University of Rome) and Luc Soete (UNU-MERIT) as co-authors. 

The Article Abstract:

This article explores in depth the role of indigenous and foreign innovation efforts in technological change and catching up and their interactions in the emerging economies. It presents original evidence and argues that, despite the potential offered by globalization and a liberal trade regime, the benefits of international technology diffusion can only be delivered with parallel indigenous innovation efforts and the presence of modern institutional and governance structures and conducive innovation systems. This conclusion is compounded by the expected inappropriateness of Northern technology for countries in the developing South that calls for greater efforts to develop indigenous innovation. In this sense, indigenous and foreign innovation efforts are complementary. 

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