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Modelling regional innovation systems in low and middle-income countries

How can agent-based simulation help explain innovation systems in low and middle-income countries, where most existing theory does not fit?

Özge Dilaver, Alain Nkusi, Joshua Omoju and Roseline Wanjiru · Advances in Social Simulation (Springer Proceedings in Complexity), 383–396 · 2023

Abstract

Innovation research is largely built on evidence from high-income countries, although innovation in low and middle-income countries is embedded in very different social and regional contexts. The chapter combines two reviews, of the literature on innovation systems in these countries and of agent-based models of innovation systems, and explores how agent-based models can address limitations of the innovation systems approach.

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