BACKGROUND Access to medicines and the development of a strong national pharmaceutical industry are two longstanding pillars of health policy in Brazil. This is reflected in a clear emphasis by Brazil's Federal Government on improving access to medicine in national health plans and industrial policies aimed at promoting domestic pharmaceutical development. This research proposes that such polic...

Learning is central to knowledge-based development. It is through learning that innovation capabilities of firm and social capabilities to adapt to change get improved. This paper focuses on learning at firm and in cluster in developing countries. Three distinctive paths or models of industrial latecomer learning are analyzed: a) individual firm-based latecomer learning, with Korean firms as pr...