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Competences for Green Development and Leapfrogging: The Case of Newly Industrializing Countries

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The challenge posed by sustainable development is becoming increasingly urgent from a global perspective. The question raised is how economic growth in transforming and newly industrializing countries can be designed in such a way that it does not undermine the achievement of ecological sustainability goals. At the same time, sustainable innovations can also play an important role for the economic and technological development of transformation and emerging economies. In addition, the prospect of establishing lead markets for sustainability technologies adds an additional incentive for emerging economies to move towards sustainability technologies.

This is an enlarged version of a paper which has been previously published in International Economics and Economic Policy, Special Issue on “International Economics of Resources and Resource Policy”, Volume 7, Numbers 2–3/August 2010.

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    Rainer Walz

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Walz, R. (2011). Competences for Green Development and Leapfrogging: The Case of Newly Industrializing Countries. In: Bleischwitz, R., Welfens, P., Zhang, Z. (eds) International Economics of Resource Efficiency. Physica-Verlag HD. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-2601-2_6

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