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Tech hubs, innovation and development

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  • Andrea Jiménez
  • Yingqin Zheng

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This paper critically discusses of the relationship between innovation and development by presenting a case of a Technology and Innovation Hub. It draws upon the capability approach by Amartya Sen to understand the implications of tech hubs in development. We argue that tech hubs, as collaborative spaces, may contribute to human-centered development processes in ways not directly linked to employment or market-based products. This advances a human-centered view of development which focuses on aspects of well-being and agency that people have reason to value. Conceptually, the paper proposes an understanding of innovation for development as (often unequal) social processes which might contribute to human development if and when the people involved perceive value in the processes, and these values include improving their own communities and society.

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  • Andrea Jiménez & Yingqin Zheng, 2018. "Tech hubs, innovation and development," Information Technology for Development, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 24(1), pages 95-118, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:titdxx:v:24:y:2018:i:1:p:95-118
    DOI: 10.1080/02681102.2017.1335282
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    3. Brian J. Bergman & Jeffery S. McMullen, 2022. "Helping Entrepreneurs Help Themselves: A Review and Relational Research Agenda on Entrepreneurial Support Organizations," Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, , vol. 46(3), pages 688-728, May.
    4. Primo, Marcos André Mendes & Paiva, Ely Laureano, 2024. "Tech hub entrepreneurial training to low-income communities: Evidence from Brazil," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 203(C).
    5. Muhammad Asif Qureshi & Jawaid Ahmed Qureshi & Ammar Ahmed & Shahzad Qaiser & Ramsha Ali & Arshian Sharif, 2020. "The Dynamic Relationship Between Technology Innovation and Human Development in Technologically Advanced Countries: Fresh Insights from Quantiles-on-Quantile Approach," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 152(2), pages 555-580, November.

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