1st Edition
Cooperation Networks and Economic Development Cuba’s High-Tech Potential
By Andrés Cárdenas O´Farrill
Copyright 2021
518 Pages
16 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
518 Pages
16 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
518 Pages
16 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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For most Western audiences, Cuba is a touristic paradise stuck in time and virtually detached from world technology networks by the US embargo – anything but a hub of industrial innovation and high value-added biotechnology. However, a closer look reveals more subtle but equally powerful stories that challenge the homogenizing assumptions of conventional economics and open up scope for more... Read more
Preface amd acknowledgements
- General introduction and methodological considerations
- Economies as networks
- The state as networker
- National systems of innovation: State-based non-firm organizations (NFOs) as integrator
- Cuban institutions and industrial policy until 1989
- Cuban industrial policy from 1989 to the present
- The Cuban biopharmaceutical industry: Case of developmental catch-up
- Conclusions
Part I : Theory and conceptualization
Part II: Contextualisation and analysis of the case
Annexes
Biography
Andrés Cárdenas O´Farrill received his first economics degree at the University of Havana. He started his career as an economist by working at the Cuban Ministry for Economy, where he became interested in the world of renewable energy. He gained his second economics degree at the University of Leipzig and his PhD at the University of Bremen. He is currently a Research Associate of the Academic–Industry Research Network – theAIRnet.
