Development and innovation: learning from the legacies of Freeman and Furtado. Issue 2 (3rd July 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Lastres, Helena Maria Martins; Cassiolato, José Eduardo
• Is Part Of: Innovation and development. Volume 7:Issue 2(2017)
• Page Start: 271
• Page End: 286
• Publication Date: 2017-07-03
• Subjects: Development and innovation -- innovation policy -- Chris Freeman -- Celso Furtado -- Latin American Structuralist Approach -- RedeSist -- Brazil; Technological innovations -- Periodicals; Sustainable development -- Periodicals; 303.484
• DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2017.1361057
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2157-930X

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Some ideas and policy proposals on development and innovation, disseminated in the second decade of the 2000s, reintroduce obsolete visions, which isolate economic phenomena from their territorial, historical and socio-political contexts. Hence, there is a need to recuperate Freeman's and Furtado's systemic and contextualized contributions to the understanding of these processes. Besides exploring these and other convergences in their approaches, the paper highlights their crucial insights about the usually ignored influence of power on these issues. We reaffirm that the combination of the two authors' analytical and normative frameworks makes them even more useful to a wider set of cases and countries. We also argue that this effort can provide a novel and proper ground for comparative analyses, helping to foster development and further refinement of different frameworks, strengthening their role as a tool to understand and orient the processes of development and innovation.