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Technology upgrading of middle income economies: A new approach and results
Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 2018. No. 129. P. 56–75.
Radosevic S., Yoruk E.
We explore issues of measurement for technology upgrading of the economies moving from middle to highincome status. In exploring this issue, we apply theoretically relevant and empirically grounded middle level conceptual and statistical framework based on three dimensions: (i) Intensity (ii) breadth of technological upgrading, and (iii) technology and knowledge exchange. As an outcome, we construct a three-pronged composite indicator of technology upgrading based on 35 indicators which reflect different drivers and patterns of technology upgrading of countries at different income levels. We show that technology upgrading of middle-income economies is distinctively different from that of low and high-income economies. Our results suggest the existence of middle-income trap in technology upgrading – i.e. countries' technology upgrading activities are not reflected in their income levels. Based on the simple statistical analysis we show that the middle-income trap is present in all three aspects of technology upgrading, but their importance varies across different aspects. A trap seems to be higher for ‘breadth’ of technology upgrading than for ‘intensity’ of technology upgrading and is by far the highest for the dimension of knowledge and technology interaction with the global economy. Finally, our research shows that technology upgrading is a multidimensional process and that it would be methodologically wrong to aim for an aggregate index.
Garbellini N., Halevi J., Denis Melnik, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics 2026 Vol. 78 P. 1–9
This paper argues that Luigi Pasinetti’s theory of structural change—most notably his concept of vertically hyper-integrated sectors—can be better understood when read against the background of the Soviet debates on planning and industrialization of the 1920s and 1930s. We suggest that Pasinetti’s analytical framework addresses, at a high level of abstraction, a set of problems ...
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Veselov D. A., Yarkin A., / Series No. 17045 "IZA Discussion Papers". 2024.
Industrial policies, such as infrastructure investments and export tariffs, affect the allocation of labor and incomes across sectors, attracting substantial lobbying efforts by special interest groups. Yet, the link between structural change and lobbying remains underexplored. Using more than 150 years of data on parliamentary petitions in USA and Britain, we measure historical lobbying and ...
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Tsatsenko N., В кн.: Труды III Гранберговской конференции: Новосибирск, 11–13 октября 2023 г.: Сборник докладов Всероссийской конференции с международным участием, посвященной памяти академика А.Г. Гранберга «Пространственный анализ социально-экономических систем: история и современность».: Институт экономики и организации промышленного производства СО РАН, 2023. С. 75–80.
This paper examines a variety of theoretical approaches to the relationship between the phenomenon of Dutch disease and structural shifts in the resource-rich economy. The mechanism of the learning by doing effect in the context of the Dutch Disease phenomenon are considered. Firstly, a brief description of the Dutch disease phenomenon itself and its two ...
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Voskoboynikov I., , in: The Contemporary Russian Economy: a Comprehensive Analysis.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. Ch. 15 P. 291–312.
Since 1990, economic growth in Russia has been volatile. The transformational recession, with a sharp output fall (–8.4% in 1990–1995), was followed by a post-transition recovery (6% growth in 2001–2005) and a long stagnation (1.7% in 2011–2019). These three periods differ in terms of the main sources of growth.
- The transformational recession of 1990–1998 was caused mostly by a ...
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Voskoboynikov I., Journal of Productivity Analysis 2023 Vol. 59 No. 3 P. 225–241
This paper shows that the industrial origins of productivity growth in Czechia, Hungary, and Slovenia (CEE-3) and Russia before 2008 were similar and driven by manufacturing industries. The contribution of manufacturing industries to multifactor productivity (MFP) growth is substantial. In CEE-3, it exceeded market services. The contribution of labor reallocation to labor productivity growth was ...
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Pavlova I., Монастырный Е. А., Гуменников И. В. et al., Журнал исследований социальной политики 2018 Т. 16 № 1 С. 23–36
Nowadays, composite indices are often used to provide a comprehensive approach in assessing multifaceted phenomena. This can allow us to monitor the performance of the institutional environment and specific organizations. This article addresses two major issues: (a) whether the available open-source data from federal statistics authorities in Russia can be developed into an instrument that ...
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Tsatsenko N., Journal of Agriculture and Environment 2020 No. 2 (14)
This paper raises the question of how SME development can be embedded into the process of structural change. The linkages between various transformations’ processes aimed at enhancing the role of SMEs in two countries in the Sub-Saharan African region as a new growth opportunity are highlighted. In addition, under rapidly changing economic conditions, small and ...
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Cherubini Alves A., Vonortas N., Zawislak P. A., , in: The Challenges of Technology and Economic Catch-up in Emerging Economies.: Oxford University Press, 2021. Ch. 7 P. 193–228.
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Fischer B., Schaeffer P. R., Vonortas N., , in: The Knowledge Triangle. Changing Higher Education and Research Management Paradigms.: Switzerland: Springer, 2021. Ch. 5 P. 85–104.
Universities play significant roles for technology upgrading in National Innovation Systems. But it remains a challenge defining and implementing institutional adjustments that promote the integration of a broader spectrum of research-oriented universities into national and global value chains. Interaction of academia with productive systems needs to be a mutual exchange with knowledge dissemination from universities ...
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Ditkovsky K. A., Fridlyanova S., Gokhberg L. et al., M.: National Research University Higher School of Economics, 2022.
This pocket data book contains main S&T and innovation indicators for the Russian Federation. The publication includes the most recent statistical data on R&D input and output, as well as international comparisons. The data book includes information of the Russian Federal State Statistics Service, Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, Russian ...
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Aanstad S., Benner M., Borlaug S. B. et al., Switzerland: Springer, 2021.
During the last decade, the concept of the Knowledge Triangle (KT) in the form of change processes that foster greater interaction between education, research and innovation activities has left the academic community and diffused to the higher education and research policy arena. As a result, numerous policy measures have been developed and implemented aiming at ...
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Pospelov I. G., Radionov S., Advances in Systems Science and Applications 2020 Vol. 20 No. 2 P. 119–130
We present a natural generalization of the Dixit-Stiglitz monopolistic competition model (DSM) — we assume that there is a continuum of industries, each of them described as in DSM, and each characterized with its own elasticity of substitution. Although firms in all industries share the same level of productivity and costs, exogenous technological progress leads ...
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Aridi A., Hayter C., Radosevic S., The Journal of Technology Transfer 2020 P. 1–19
Following long-standing calls to investigate information and communication technology (ICT) sector development in lesser-developed economies, this study examines the sector’s rapid emergence in Ukraine utilizing a catch-up cycle conceptual framework. Ukraine is a unique case due to the country’s location in Eastern Europe, the sector’s explosive growth within an otherwise stagnant economy, and related disconnectedness ...
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Dominguez Lacasa I., Jindra B., Radosevic S. et al., Research Policy 2019 Vol. 48 No. 1 P. 262–280
This paper explores technology upgrading of BRICS economies based on a three-pronged approach, which distinguishes between the intensity of technology upgrading, structural change and global interaction. We develop a statistical framework based on patent indicators to measure technological upgrading and apply it to BRICS economies in the period 1980–2015. The paper shows that there is ...
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Lee J., Lee K., Meissner D. et al., The Journal of Technology Transfer 2021 Vol. 46 No. 3 P. 563–573
The globalisation trend of the past few decades, driven to a large extent by the proliferation of GVCs, has led to a set of significant changes in patterns of technology upgrading and new modes of interaction between domestic technology efforts and external sources of technological knowledge. Whether this new dynamic will lead to continuing increase ...
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Левин С. Н., Kislitsyn D., Сурцева А. А., Журнал институциональных исследований 2019 Т. 11 № 4 С. 61–76
The paper describes the institutional organization of the resource type regions. The advantages of the political and economic approach based on structural alternatives of development identification are justified. The choice between those alternatives is decided by dominant political and economic actors’ interactions, motivations and limitations of the actors are regarded in the context of path ...
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Park J., Ryu D., Lee K., Structural Change and Economic Dynamics 2019 Vol. 51 P. 203–214
This study examines the determinants of economic size of a nation measured as its share in world GDP, in comparison with the conventional determinants of per capita income growth. These two indicators are complementary. The former represents the economic size (power) of a nation, whereas the latter stands for people’s standard of living. This paper ...
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Maksimov A. G., Telezhkina M., Прикладная эконометрика 2019 Т. 55 С. 91–112
Analysis of factors, characterizing globalization, on transformation of higher education system, called as the «fundamental shift» by Kwiek (2001), is conducted with the use of data for 195 countries for the period 1988–2016. Models of dynamics of share of youth, getting higher education, before and after positive demand shock in higher education are considered. Globalization ...
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Radosevic S., Meissner D., Lacasa I. D. et al., Technological Forecasting and Social Change 2019 Vol. 145 P. 254–257
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Voskoboynikov I., Review of Income and Wealth 2020 Vol. 66 No. 2 P. 394–417
Strong growth, intensive structural change and expanding informality have characterized many developing and emerging economies in recent decades. Yet most empirical investigations into the relationship between structural change and productivity growth overlook informality. This paper includes the informal sector in an analysis of the effects of structural changes in the Russian economy on aggregate labour ...
Added: March 9, 2019