Innovation Capabilities and Economic Development in Open Economies

The innovation capacity-building can contribute to improve the integration of developing countries in the world economy.

The economic development has been a much discussed subject of the period after the Second World War until the 1990s. After the implementation of a global regulation system for trade and capital flows in the 1990s, the development economics has almost disappeared in favor of different theories on globalization, on finance and on international trade. The purpose of this book is to show that the innovation capacity building in developing countries is necessary to improve their weight in the world economy and to facilitate their economic ties with northern countries. However, there are important difficulties due to the lack of proactive economic policies.

Our aim is to contribute to the revival of the development economics. The issue of improving the well-being of the world population as a whole is highly topical. However, studies neglect the need to give economic, financial, technological and political resources to developing countries to promote their own development. One of the most important means is to strengthen their innovation capabilities that allow them to better integrate into the world economy.

Vanessa Casadella is a researcher at CRIISEA and a member of the Research Network on Innovation (RNI). She is an Associate Professor and head of department at IUT de l'Oise in France.

Zeting Liu is a researcher at Clersé-CNRS, University of Lille in France. She is an economist and general secretary of the Research Network on Innovation (RNI) and a member of the international Jean-Baptiste Say society.

Dimitri Uzunidis is a researcher at Clersé-CNRS, University of Lille in France. He is president of the Research Network on Innovation (RNI) and the international Jean-Baptiste Say society. He teaches in both Greece and the US.