innovation, trying to map - using the taxonomies put forward by the innovation literature - the concrete ways through which a … into globalized markets where domestic innovation has to be complemented by the role played by international technological … transfer. Among the ways how a middle income country can foster domestic innovation and structural change in terms of sectoral …

relationships in eight selected MENA countries. Our panel data is for the period from 1977-2013 sourced from the World Development … Indicators of the World Bank. Findings - Results prove literature proposed hypotheses for the selected region and period, and … in the world economy. Research limitations/implications - Data limitation led to the inclusion of only eight countries of …