Journal
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC SURVEYS
Volume 30, Issue 5, Pages 884-912Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/joes.12126
Keywords
Development; Diffusion; Innovation; Low- and middle-income countries
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- ESRC/DFID Grant 'The Diffusion of Innovation in Low Income Countries' [ES/J008699/1]
- ESRC [ES/J008699/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Economic and Social Research Council [ES/J008699/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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In this study, we review the literature on the creation and diffusion of innovation in the private sectors (industry and services) in developing countries. In particular, we collect evidence on what are the barriers to innovation creation and diffusion and the channels of innovation diffusion to and within developing countries. We find that innovation in developing countries is about creation or adoption of new ideas and technologies; but the capacity for innovation is embedded in and constituted by dynamics between geographical, socio-economic, political and legal subsystems. We contextualize the findings from the review in the current theoretical framework of diffusion of innovations, and we emphasize how the institutional context typical of developing countries impacts the diffusion itself.
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