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- Innovation Systems, Policy and Management
- Innovation Systems, Policy and Management
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Innovation Policy and Innovation Systems
- Part II Innovation in Developing and Emerging Countries
- 5 National Systems of Innovation in Developing Countries
- 6 Innovation, Credit Constraints, and National Banking Systems
- 7 Pro-Cyclical Dynamics of STI Investment in Mexico
- 8 Gaps in the Relative Efficiency of National Innovation Systems and Growth Performance across OECD and BRICS Countries
- 9 Differential Effects of Currency Undervaluation on Economic Growth in Mineral- vs Manufacturing-Exporting Countries
- Part III Regional Innovation Systems and Policies
- Part IV Innovation Management and its Links with Policy
- Index
- References
7 - Pro-Cyclical Dynamics of STI Investment in Mexico
The Inversion of the Schumpeterian Reasoning*
from Part II - Innovation in Developing and Emerging Countries
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 August 2018
- Innovation Systems, Policy and Management
- Innovation Systems, Policy and Management
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Innovation Policy and Innovation Systems
- Part II Innovation in Developing and Emerging Countries
- 5 National Systems of Innovation in Developing Countries
- 6 Innovation, Credit Constraints, and National Banking Systems
- 7 Pro-Cyclical Dynamics of STI Investment in Mexico
- 8 Gaps in the Relative Efficiency of National Innovation Systems and Growth Performance across OECD and BRICS Countries
- 9 Differential Effects of Currency Undervaluation on Economic Growth in Mineral- vs Manufacturing-Exporting Countries
- Part III Regional Innovation Systems and Policies
- Part IV Innovation Management and its Links with Policy
- Index
- References
Summary
Determining the causal relationship between innovation and growth is a classic quest of the economics of innovation studies. However, empirical research that goes beyond verifying the existence of causality, to investigate the direction, intensity, and mechanisms that explain those causal links is still a green field (Foster and Pyka 2014). Investment in the public goods associated with science, technology, and innovation (STI) activities depends on a country’s available public resources, which opens up a causal loop that may be associated with either growth and welfare or poverty traps. This interaction between investment in STI and growth remains at the core of many theoretical discussions, especially in developing countries, where this investment is expected to drive economic growth, sustain catching up processes, and assist in poverty alleviation.
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- Innovation Systems, Policy and Management , pp. 217 - 248Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018