This chapter develops an analytical framework for understanding how learning and capability formation can foster industrial upgrading, with special emphasis on the spread of information technology. Under what conditions can developing countries use IT to improve their learning capabilities?...

This paper inquires how the concept of the "learning economy" can be applied to the requirements of developing countries. The main purpose is to develop an analytical framework to better understand how learning and capability formation can foster industrial upgrading. Special emphasis is given...

The expert contributors gathered here approach underdevelopment and inequality from different evolutionary perspectives. It is argued that the Schumpeterian processes of ‘creative destruction' may take the form of wealth creation in one part of the globe and wealth destruction in another. Case...