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Strong life sciences in innovative weak contexts: a “developmental” approach to a tantalizing mismatch

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Life sciences are the best developed area of academic research throughout Latin America. Biomedical research has been particularly successful. However, generally speaking, excellence in research has not been accompanied by commercially successful innovations, a pattern that differs from what has happened in many highly industrialized countries, even small ones. The paper explores some causes of such disappointing outcome, stressing in particular the historical lack of political and social legitimacy exhibited by innovation policies in underdevelopment. From a developmental point of view it is of great importance the building of such legitimacy. One way of doing so is to link more tightly innovation policies to social concerns; bio-innovation is suggested as a productive path towards that aim. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2007

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  • Judith Sutz, 2007. "Strong life sciences in innovative weak contexts: a “developmental” approach to a tantalizing mismatch," The Journal of Technology Transfer, Springer, vol. 32(4), pages 329-341, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:jtecht:v:32:y:2007:i:4:p:329-341
    DOI: 10.1007/s10961-006-9022-y
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