Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Lema, Rasmus
Author-Email: lema@business.aau.dk
Author-Workplace-Name: Aalborg University
Author-Name: Pietrobelli, Carlo
Author-Email: pietrobelli@merit.unu.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: UNU-MERIT, and University Roma Tre
Author-Name: Rabellotti, Roberta
Author-Email: roberta.rabellotti@unipv.it
Author-Workplace-Name: University of Pavia, and Aalborg University
Title: Innovation in Global Value Chains
Abstract: Developing countries are faced with significant challenges related to 
	 building and deepening their innovation capabilities. In this chapter, 
	 we focus on innovation in global value chains and on the role that such 
	 chains play in building and deepening capability. We also focus on the 
	 trajectories along which firms, once inserted into global value chains 
	 and located in developing countries, acquire or lose innovation 
	 capability. To do so, we bring together the global value chains and 
	 innovation systems approaches. Our key arguments are that global value 
	 chains interact with innovation systems in multiple ways and that these 
	 interactions have important implications for the speed, depth, and 
	 overall quality of capability building in developing-country firms. We 
	 outline five innovation capability trajectories and show how capability 
	 building at the firm level interrelates with the various ways in which 
	 global value chains and innovation systems co-evolve.
Classification-JEL: F23, D23, L22, L25, O10, O32, O38
Keywords: global value chains, innovation systems, technological capabilities,
	 innovation policy, co-evolution
Series: UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Creation-Date: 20181024
Number: 2018-038
File-URL: https://unu-merit.nl/publications/wppdf/2018/wp2018-038.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 275 Kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2018038