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Catching Up in the New Knowledge Economy

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Drawing from various approaches, this chapter has the dual purpose of offering a conceptual framework in which to embed the subsequent analysis and that of locating the emergence of the knowledge economy as an imaginary that came to be embraced by the Indian and the Brazilian state from the late 1980s onwards. The chapter is primarily concerned with explaining the international context in which India and Brazil found themselves in the 1980s, paying particular attention to the changes brought about by the shift from Fordism to post-Fordism in advanced economies, the rise of the competition state orientation, the debt crisis and the rise of the knowledge economy as one of the dominant ways of conceptualising the economy and its future direction. The chapter concludes by explaining why and how intellectual property titles have become central to the way in which the knowledge economy functions today.

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Muzaka, V. (2018). Catching Up in the New Knowledge Economy. In: Food, Health and the Knowledge Economy. Building a Sustainable Political Economy: SPERI Research & Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59306-1_2

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