This article reviews the rapidly growing domain of global value chain (GVC) research by
analyzing several highly cited conceptual frameworks and then appraising GVC studies …

What role does trade play in international technology transfer? Do technologies introduced
by multinational firms diffuse to local firms? What kinds of policies have proved successful in …

Accelerating processes of economic globalization have fundamentally reshaped the
organization of the global economy towards much greater integration and functional …

The concept of the developmental state emerged to explain the rapid growth of a number of
countries in East Asia in the postwar period. Yet the developmental state literature also …

One of the puzzles about why some countries have stronger economic growth than others
revolves around the so-called'middle-income trap', the situation in which a country that has …

Strategic Coupling is a timely and excellent contribution to our knowledge. Anyone who
wishes to understand how East Asia gained and maintained prominence in high technology …

This paper provides a working definition of what the middle-income trap is. We start by
defining four income groups of GDP per capita in 1990 PPP dollars: low-income below …

First published in 1997. Massive technological development has changed the face of
industry drammatically. This text provides an analysis of the trends and dynamics of …

Humphrey J. and Schmitz H.(2002) How does insertion in global value chains affect
upgrading in industrial clusters?, Reg. Studies 36, 1017–1027. What is the scope for local …

The innovation systems (IS) approach emerged as a theoretical framework in the
industrialized world in the mid-1990s to explain innovation and growth in the developed …