Innovation and Technology Trajectories in a Developing Country Context: Evidence from a Survey of Malaysian Firms

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I am indebted to Professor Philip Shapira for providing the data and opportunity to work on a project to evaluate the Malaysian Knowledge Economy (MyKE). I am grateful to Professor Gregory Lewis for providing detailed suggestions on the econometric models. I thank Professor Diana Hicks for agreeing to be part of my committee. All remaining errors are my own. Acknowledgements iii List of Tables v List of Figures vi Summary vii Chapter 1 Introduction 1 Chapter 2 What do we know about innovation?-A review of literature 3 2.1 The measures and means of Innovation 3 2.2 The odds and ends of innovation in developing countries 12 2.3 Sectoral patterns of innovation 15 2.4 Summary 20 Chapter 3 A taxonomy based on firms' technology trajectories 22 3.