TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2007//
TI  - Inadequacy of technology and innovation systems at the periphery
JO  - Cambridge journal of economics
A1  - Albuquerque, Eduardo da Motta E.
SP  - 669
EP  - 690
VL  - 31
IS  - 5
N2  - Inadequacy of technology is a child of structuralism; the concept of a national system of innovation (NSI) is a child of evolutionary theory. A dialogue between these concepts can enrich our understanding of the problems involved in building NSIs at the periphery. Celso Furtado explains the structural roots of modernisation-marginalisation polarisation and how the orientation of technology of underdeveloped countries is embedded in income concentration. The formation of welfare states at the periphery provides NSIs with a new 'focusing device', helping to break the marginalisation side of the process. The combined formation of NSIs and welfare systems is an institutional response to modernisation-marginalisation polarisation.<p /> 
LA  - 
SN  - 0309-166X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cje/bel045
ID  - ref1
ER  -