This paper explores the processes of indigenous (global South) innovation, particularly of the “high-tech” and “radical … factor-saving bias, that influences the rate and direction of indigenous innovation in the global South; and (c) the long … tail of an old technology affects the take-off of a new indigenous innovation, essentially by shortening the technological …

This paper introduces an extended structural innovation model à la Crépon et al. (1998), adapted to study empirically … the process of indigenous innovation and catch-up in a developing economy context. Specifically, three key extensions to … the original model are introduced in order to study how FDI, spillovers and policy reforms, respectively, drive innovation …