Catching Up in the Digital Age
Capabilities, Governance and Industrial Policy in Transitional Europe
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Beschreibung
This book offers a new governance framework for understanding how countries with limited institutional capacity can pursue economic catch-up in the digital age. This book introduces the concept of the Developmental Network State (DNS) to explain how learning, coordination, and embeddedness enable capability development under conditions of constraint. Focusing on transitional economies in Southeast Europe, it examines how fragmented institutions, donor dependence, and political volatility shape technological upgrading and industrial transformation.
Drawing on extensive fieldwork, stakeholder interviews, and comparative analysis, the book explores digital entrepreneurship, agri-food upgrading, and integration into automotive supply chains in low-capacity environments. It highlights themes such as governance as a meta-capability, industrial policy under digital disruption, and the role of diasporas and donors in shaping development trajectories. This interdisciplinary study will appeal to researchers, graduate students, policy advisors, and development practitioners interested in industrial policy, innovation systems, and governance reform in latecomer economies.
This book offers a new governance framework for understanding how countries with limited institutional capacity can pursue economic catch-up in the digital age. This book introduces the concept of the Developmental Network State (DNS) to explain how learning, coordination, and embeddedness enable capability development under conditions of constraint. Focusing on transitional economies in Southeast Europe, it examines how fragmented institutions, donor dependence, and political volatility shape technological upgrading and industrial transformation.
Drawing on extensive fieldwork, stakeholder interviews, and comparative analysis, the book explores digital entrepreneurship, agri-food upgrading, and integration into automotive supply chains in low-capacity environments. It highlights themes such as governance as a meta-capability, industrial policy under digital disruption, and the role of diasporas and donors in shaping development trajectories. This interdisciplinary study will appeal to researchers, graduate students, policy advisors, and development practitioners interested in industrial policy, innovation systems, and governance reform in latecomer economies.
Introduces the Developmental Network State as a novel governance model for development under constraint Bridges theory and practice through field-based case studies from Kosovo, Albania, and North Macedonia Offers actionable insights for policymaking in low-capacity, donor-dependent, and post-socialist contexts
Autor*in
Fadil Sahiti
Themen in »Catching Up in the Digital Age«
Technological capability building Industrial policy in transition economies Developmental Network State Innovation systems in developing countries Structural transformation in the transitional Europe Digital economy and development Diaspora and industrial upgrading Embedded governance frameworks Donor coordination and development policy Learning-based development strategies Institutional capacity in latecomer states Adaptive governance models Post-socialist economic transformation