Resource Intensity, Knowledge and Development: Insights from Africa and South America - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0796922136 ISBN 13: 9780796922137

Publisher: HSRC Press, 2008

Synopsis

Focusing on the technological trajectories of firms and research teams in resource-intensive primary sectors of Brazil, Costa Rica, Peru, and South Africa, this volume contributes to an important ongoing economic debate. This analysis provides detailed descriptions of both failed and successful attempts at knowledge intensification of resource-based productive activities in countries that are often, incorrectly, lumped into the category of "resource-rich underachievers." Combining in-depth technological expertise with a theoretical grounding in the economics of learning, technological upgrading, and innovation, this argument underlines that, more than what countries produce, how they go about it is what matters to development practice.

About this title

About the Author

Jo Lorentzen is a chief research specialist in the Education, Science, and Skills Development research program of the Human Sciences Research Council, and honorary research fellow in the School of Development Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa.

Edition details

• Publisher: HSRC Press
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0796922136
• ISBN 13: 9780796922137
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272
• Editor: Lorentzen Jo