This article reviews some basic features of inequality in South African society and in the national innovation system, using national research survey data. It poses questions about how sub-national innovation systems might evolve in the 'less favoured regions' of South Africa. It commences with...

The literature on agglomeration economies suggests that, in addition to firm-specific attributes, the local geographic context conditions the expected profitability of technology adoption. All rheories of technology diffusion assumc that inter-firm learning is the outcome of contact with prior...

From the Middle-Income Trap to the Threshold Effect -- How Does China Avoid “Secular Stagnation? -- Establishing a New Development Paradigm by Strengthening Comparative Advantage -- Dynamic Balance of Regional Economic Growth -- Productivity, New Growth Drivers and the Manufacturing Industry...