Format:
xix, 497 Seiten :
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Illustrationen, Diagramme.
ISBN:
978-1-138-55898-4
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in development economics 152
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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Abbreviations -- Preface and acknowledgements -- 1 General introduction and methodological considerations -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Research design and data collection -- 1.3 On prediction and testing -- 1.4 Research tools -- 1.5 Case selection -- 1.6 Historical specificity in case studies in economics -- Notes -- References -- Part I Theory and conceptualization -- 2 Economies as networks -- 2.1 The economy as a complex system -- 2.2 Innovation as a relational process -- 2.3 The economy as a purposeful system -- 2.4 The economy: A system as a whole -- 2.5 The historical dimension of economic evolution -- 2.5.1 Meso-economics: Institutions as analytical unit -- 2.5.2 Implication for the analysis of economic growth -- 2.6 The conception of networks at work -- 2.6.1 The network approach -- 2.6.2 Hub dominated networks vs. ideal "random" networks -- 2.6.3 Social network research -- 2.6.4 The notion of centrality -- Notes -- References -- 3 The state as networker -- 3.1 The need of a conceptualization of government agency -- 3.2 Anti-interventionist theories -- 3.3 Industrial policy as a recurrent theme -- 3.4 The ownership issue: States enterprises -- 3.5 The usual neglect: Shaper but not selector -- 3.6 Market/government dichotomy -- 3.7 The state as crucial hub within the complex economic network -- 3.7.1 The risk taking function: Standards formally set vs. informally emerged -- 3.7.2 Hub diversity and hierarchy -- 3.7.3 Dynamically coherent agents (DCA) -- 3.7.4 Dynamic incoherent agents (DIA): The true agents of change -- 3.7.5 Government agency as a DIA -- Notes -- References -- 4 National systems of innovation: State-based non-firm organizations (NFOs) as integrators -- 4.1 The origin of growth
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4.2 The necessity of a systemic approach to innovation: The neo-Schumpeterian approach -- 4.3 Systems of innovation as networks -- 4.4 Defining NFOs -- 4.5 The national dimension of the systems of innovation: The role of state's NFOs -- 4.6 The sectoral systems of innovation -- 4.7 A network within networks: The theory of the innovative business enterprise -- 4.8 The concept of organizational integration -- 4.9 System integrators -- 4.10 NFOs as locus of organizational integration -- 4.11 Organizational integration from a network perspective -- 4.12 NFOs in leading and in catch-up economies -- Notes -- References -- Part II Contextualization and analysis of the case -- 5 Cuban institutions and industrial policy until 1989 -- 5.1 Political change as institutional change -- 5.2 Before 1959 -- 5.3 Brief remarks on Cuban socialism -- 5.3.1 The beginning -- 5.3.2 Social progress as a prerequisite -- 5.3.3 Developmental vs. anti-developmental elements -- 5.4 Main institutional changes since 1959 -- 5.4.1 Period 1959-1964 -- 5.4.2 The National Land Reform Institute -- Agrarian reform and diversification -- Causes of the failure -- Nationalization and industrialization -- Increasing centralization -- 5.4.3 The Central Planning Board -- 5.4.4 Period 1964-1975 -- Strategy change -- Debate on state enterprise financing -- Relevance of Guevara's insights -- Sugar target -- 1971-1975 -- 5.4.5 Period 1976-1989 -- Soviet-based institutionalization -- The System of Economic Direction and Planning (SDPE) -- Cuba in the socialist economic world -- Rectification process 1986-1990 -- New organizational attempts -- Notes -- References -- 6 Cuban industrial policy from 1989 to the present -- 6.1 First measures after the collapse of the Soviet Union -- 6.2 Reforms aimed to the domestic economy -- 6.2.1 Changes in the labor market
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6.2.2 Changes in the agricultural production -- 6.3 Reintegration of Cuba in the international economy -- 6.3.1 Holding companies -- 6.3.2 Enterprise reform -- 6.3.3 Foreign partnerships -- 6.4 Natural-resource and service-based export performance -- 6.4.1 On natural resources and raw materials -- 6.4.2 Nickel extraction -- 6.4.3 A possible low-cost substitute of the Cuban nickel -- 6.4.4 Tourist-services based growth -- 6.4.5 Shortcomings of the tourism industry as growth engine -- 6.4.6 Professional services based growth -- Notes -- References -- 7 The Cuban biopharmaceutical industry: Case of developmental catch-up1 -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 The Cuban biotech industry -- 7.2.1 From a health economics perspective -- 7.2.2 Biopharmaceutical trade balance -- 7.2.3 Innovative outcomes of the industry -- 7.3 The international industry: The need for organizational integration -- 7.3.1 Business models of the biopharmaceutical industry: A story of wasteful strategies -- 7.3.2 NFOs as foundation of the biopharmaceutical industry -- 7.4 Organizational analysis of the Cuban biopharmaceutical industry -- 7.4.1 NFOs in the Cuban biotech -- 7.4.2 Cuban biotechnology: A story of functional integration -- Cross-organizational cooperation -- 7.4.3 The central organizations -- A few words about the Cuban health system -- National Regulatory Agency (CECMED) -- National Clinical Trials Coordinating Center (CENCEC) -- 7.4.4 Firms as research spin-offs -- 7.4.5 Strategic network organizations -- In-house modularity -- Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB) -- Center for Neurosciences -- Institute for Digital Research (ICID) -- Center for Immunoassay (CIE) -- National Center for Animal and Plant Health (CENSA) -- Center for Molecular Immunology (CIM) -- Finlay Institute -- 7.4.6 Other research-production organizations -- 7.4.7 Manufacturing companies
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7.4.8 High value service companies -- 7.4.9 Trading companies -- 7.4.10 Holding companies -- Notes -- References -- Conclusions -- Annexes -- Annex 1 -- Intellectual Property -- Annex 2 -- International alliances of Cuban biotech -- Annex 3 -- Cuba: Country-based patent pool -- Annex 4 -- Network analysis of Cuban biotech -- A4.1 Research objective -- A4.2 On the network method -- Statistical methods and social network methods -- A brief definition -- A4.3 Network data collection -- A4.4 Basic assumptions -- A4.5 Organizational integration conceived as centrality -- A4.6 Core notions of centrality -- Degree centrality -- Betweenness centrality -- Closeness centrality -- A4.7 Results and discussion -- A4.7.1 Total Degree centrality -- A4.7.2 Closeness centrality -- A4.7.3 Eigenvector centrality -- A4.7.4 Betweenness centrality -- A4.7.5 Out-degree centrality -- A4.7.6 In-degree centrality -- A4.8 Complementary measures -- A4.8.1 Hub and authority centrality -- A4.8.2 Information centrality -- A4.8.3 Clique count, clustering coefficient, simmelian ties -- Clique membership count -- Clustering coefficient -- Simmelian ties -- A4.9 Conclusion -- Annex 5 -- Index
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Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-0-203-71334-1
Language:
English
Subjects:
Economics
