TRAMES, 2007, 11(61/56), 2, 106–123
How to improve the national innovation
systems of catching-up economies?
Urmas
Varblane1, David Dyker2, Dorel Tamm1
1University of Tartu, 2University of Sussex
Keywords: national innovation system, catching up,
convergence, path-dependency, systemic problems
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