Andrés Cárdenas O´Farrill

Cooperation Networks and Economic Development

Cuba's High-Tech Potential

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Produktbeschreibung

For most Western audiences, Cuba is a touristic paradise stuck in time and virtually detached from world technology networks by the US embargo - anything but a hub of industrial innovation and high value-added biotechnology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 520
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 939g
• ISBN-13: 9781138558984
• ISBN-10: 1138558982
• Artikelnr.: 59987473

Autorenporträt

Andrés Cárdenas O¿Farrill received his first economics degree at the University of Havana. He started his career as an economist by working at the Cuban Ministry for Economy, where he became interested in the world of renewable energy. He gained his second economics degree at the University of Leipzig and his PhD at the University of Bremen. He is currently a Research Associate of the Academic-Industry Research Network - theAIRnet.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface amd acknowledgements
1. General introduction and methodological considerations
Part I : Theory and conceptualization
2. Economies as networks
3. The state as networker
4. National systems of innovation: State-based non-firm organizations
(NFOs) as integrator
Part II: Contextualisation and analysis of the case
5. Cuban institutions and industrial policy until 1989
6. Cuban industrial policy from 1989 to the present
7. The Cuban biopharmaceutical industry: Case of developmental catch-up
8. Conclusions
Annexes