New Perspectives on Structural Change
Causes and Consequences of Structural Change in the Global Economy
Edited by Ludovico Alcorta, Neil Foster-McGregor, Bart Verspagen, and Adam Szirmai
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Edited by Ludovico Alcorta, Professorial Fellow on Technology, Innovation and Sustainable Development, UNU-MERIT; School of Business and Economics, University of Maastricht; Chief Technical Advisor on Industrial Strategy, Government of Oman; UNIDO, Neil Foster-McGregor, Professor of Innovation and Globalisation, UNU-MERIT, Maastricht University, Bart Verspagen, Professor of Macroeconomics of Technological Change, UNU-MERIT, Maastricht University, and Adam Szirmai, Professor of Development Economics, UNU-MERIT, Maastricht University
Ludovico Alcorta is Professorial Fellow on "Technology, Innovation and Sustainable Development" at UNU-MERIT, School of Business and Economics, University of Maastricht. He has been Director of Industrial Policy, Statistics and Strategic Research at the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and is Chief Technical Advisor on Industrial Strategy to the Government of Oman. While at UNIDO he contributed to the preparation of SDGs 8 and 9. Ludovico's research and publications are in the areas of new technologies, innovation, industrialization and development, including in journals such as World Development, European Journal of Development Research, Research Policy, Oxford Development Papers, Development, Industry and Innovation, Energy Efficiency, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics as well as in China's Economic Research Journal.
Neil Foster-McGregor is a Professor of Globalisation and Innovation at UNU-MERIT in the Netherlands. Prior to this he was Assistant Professor at the University of Vienna (2000-2008) and a Senior Research Economist at the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw). Neil obtained his PhD in Economics from the University of Nottingham in 2001. Neil's research interests include issues of economic growth and development, international trade and globalisation, and innovation and technology transfer.
Bart Verspagen is an economist specialised in the economics of technological change. He did his undergraduate studies at the University of Limburg (now called Maastricht University) in Maastricht, the Netherlands, from 1984-1988. After that, he obtained a PhD degree from the same university in 1992. During the five years after that, he held a scholarship from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). He was professor of Economics of Innovation at Eindhoven University of technology. His current workplace is the research institute UNU-MERIT in Maastricht.
Adam Szirmai (UNU-MERIT) was Professorial Fellow at UNU-MERIT and Professor of Development Economics at the Maastricht Graduate School of Governance of Maastricht University. His research focused on technological change, productivity, growth in developing countries.
Contributors:
Adam Szirmai, Adriaan van Zon, Alejandro Lavopa, Alessandro Nuvolari, Alessio Moro, Andre Pineli, Aradhna Aggarwal, Bart Verspagen, Carlo Valdes, Chris Callaghan, Christopher Hope, Clovis Freire, Codrina Rada, Emanuele Russo, Fiona Tregenna, Gabriel Porcile, Giovanni Dosi, Giovanni Marin, Ha-Joon Chang, Hossein Jalilian, Jan Fagerberg, Jesus Felipe, Joanilio Teixeira, John Weiss, José Ocampo, Jürgen Amann, Keun Lee, Kevin Nell, Ludovico Alcorta, Marcel Timmer, Marco Vivarelli, Massimilanio Mazzanti, Matteo Tranchero, Michael Landesmann, Neil Foster-McGregor, Nicola Cantore, Nobuya Haraguchi, Önder Nomaler, Rajneesh Narula, René Belderbos, Ricardo Araujo, Ron Boschma, Shanika Ramanayake, Solomon Owusu, Stefan Pahl, Stephany Griffith-Jones, Wonkyu Shin
