Global Value Chains Meet Innovation Systems : Are There Learning Opportunities for Developing Countries?

By C. Pietrobelli, Roberta Rabellotti. 2010

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This paper addresses two research questions: How do learning mechanisms operate in different types of global value chains? What is the supporting role of the innovation system in GVC-driven learning and innovation processes? Empirical evidence is used from the authors' research as well as secondary sources. Given the highly differentiated reality behind the sketchy and simplistic term "developing countries," the paper focuses on a particular group of middle-income developing countries: Brazil, Taiwan and Mexico.

Subfields: Business and International Management, Strategy and Management

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Social structure and technology spillovers from foreign to domestic firms (2012, neutral): “In a similar way, a domestic firm’s ties to government-supported institutions that have access to information about foreign technologies could also be effective (McDermott et al., 2009; McEvily & Zaheer, 1999; Pietrobelli & Rabellotti, 2011).”
Digital labour and development: impacts of global digital labour platforms and the gig economy on worker livelihoods (2017, background): “However, ICT-enabled outsourcing can also make it easier for workers to be kept at an arm’s length from core business processes, hindering knowledge flow from the core to the periphery and thus perpetuating rather than erasing skill and capability disparities (Pietrobelli and Rabellotti, 2011).”
Adaptation, bridging and firm upgrading: How non-market institutions and MNCs facilitate knowledge recombination in emerging markets (2014, background): “This stream of research instead places greater emphasis on non-market institutions that provide low-cost access to technology application and extension services, such as in metrology, standards, testing and quality (Pietrobelli & Rabellotti, 2011).”
Do Global Value Chains Offer Developing Countries Learning and Innovation Opportunities? (2017, background): “…or intra-firm sources of learning, promoted by an autonomous technological capability accumulation process (Morrison et al, 2008), and/or external sources, based on their links to other organizations in the national and/or regional innovation system (Pietrobelli and Rabellotti, 2007, 2011).”
Do Global Value Chains Enhance Economic Upgrading? A Long View (2020, background): “Escaping from such captive governance structures may only be possible under the right domestic conditions, such as well-functioning domestic innovation systems offering ample opportunity to absorb and assimilate new technologies (Pietrobelli & Rabellotti, 2011).”
Innovation capability building and learning mechanisms in latecomer firms: recent empirical contributions and implications for research (2012, background): “…clusters in developing economies, especially small and mediumsized enterprises (SMEs), to engage in global value chains (GVCs); thus, they can learn from global leaders of the chain, either buyers or producers (Gereffi and Kaplinsky 2001, Giuliani et al. 2005, Pietrobelli and Rabellotti 2011).”
Exporting and innovating among emerging market firms: The moderating role of institutional development (2017, background): “Other EMs similar to an EM exporter’s home can serve as an effective and inexpensive source of valuable knowledge, especially applied, experiential knowledge (Pietrobelli & Rabellotti, 2011).”
National innovation systems and the intermediary role of industry associations in building institutional capacities for innovation in developing countries: a critical review of the literature (2015, background): “…capabilities and functions along the value chain, “but is often about deepening the specific capabilities to explore new opportunities offered” (Pietrobelli and Rabellotti, 2011: p. 1262) through spillovers from the value chain, e.g., recombining new and existing knowledge to improve…”
Innovation Trajectories in Developing Countries: Co-evolution of Global Value Chains and Innovation Systems (2018, neutral): “The third is the still-nascent grasp of changes over time in GVC governance patterns and of possible multiple trajectories and stages of capability building involved in upgrading (Schmitz, 2007; Pietrobelli and Rabellotti, 2011).”
Local and Regional Development in Global Value Chains, Production Networks and Innovation Networks: A Comparative Review and the Challenges for Future Research (2013, background): “In common with other recent commentators (see, in particular, Morrison et al., 2008; Pietrobelli & Rabellotti, 2011) the paper suggests that conceptually, the GVC approach could benefit from drawing upon insights emanating from the technological capabilities and innovation systems literature.”
Governing the market in a globalizing era: Developmental states, global production networks and inter-firm dynamics in East Asia (2014, background): “…the field of international political economy: the global value-chain approach (Gereffi, 1994, 1999; Schmitz, 2004; Gereffi et al., 2005; Bair, 2009; Pietrobelli and Rabellotti, 2011) and the global production networks perspective (Dicken et al., 2001; Ernst and Kim, 2002; Henderson et al., 2002;…”
An integrative typology of global strategy and global value chains: The management and organization of cross‐border activities (2020, positive): “…and technological capabilities through learning by doing (see, for example, Kaplinsky, Morris, & Readman, 2002; Giuliani, Pietrobelli, & Rabellotti, 2005; Pietrobelli & Rabellotti, 2011; Pietrobelli & Saliola, 2008; Morrison, Pietrobelli, & Rabellotti, 2008; Ivarsson & Alvstam, 2005, 2011).”