Part I: Global Value Chains Foundations and empirical facts in Latin America -- Chapter 1. Global value chains evolution in Latin America -- Chapter 2: Latin American economies in Global value chains: Main evidence -- Chapter 3: Global Value Chains: Production and Innovation Clusters -- Part II:...

Led by the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry, IP-intensive manufacturing industries contribute extraordinary economic value to the U.S. economy. Compared to other IP-intensive and non-IP intensive manufacturing industries, the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry had the highest R&D...

"This lucid and informative book analyzes the problems of clusters in transition through studies of agglomerations at different stages of development in various East Asian countries. The contributors reconsider industrial cluster policy within a more dynamic and long-term framework, and explore...