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Both economic history and economic theory generally acknowledge a deep relationship between technical change and economic development. It is quite intuitive that improvements in the efficiency of production techniques or in product performances may be a determinant or at least a condition for growth in productivity and industrialization. The opening of the technological black box has often gone hand in hand with important insights on how learning and technological capabilities develop in less developed economies. Studies on the sources, mechanisms, and patterns of learning and its microeconomic impact on productivity growth have flourished over the last four decades.
A first version of the first part of this paper has been published in Economics of Innovation and New Technologies, vol. 18, no. 7, pp. 675–694, with the title “Sources of Learning Paths and Technological Capabilities: An Introductory Roadmap of Development Processes”. A version of the second part is forthcoming within the volume The Triple Challenge of Development: Changing the Rules in a Global World, with the title “Still blowin’ in the wind: industrial policy and distorted prices for structural transformation” (co-author. Elisa Calza)
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Cimoli, M., Porcile, G. (2013). Accumulation of Capabilities, Structural Change, and Macro Prices: an Evolutionary and Structuralist Roadmap. In: Stiglitz, J.E., Yifu, J.L., Patel, E. (eds) The Industrial Policy Revolution II. International Economic Association Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137335234_4
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