I don't know for emerging countries, but I have done my dessertation aroud the developement of a model to help economic advisor to support technological entrepreuneurship in a context of co-innovation. One of my findings is that the economic development process is two-fold, and intermediated in innovative ecosystem. Third places, where people can experiment on the uses of technologies or solutions should be very helpful.

Mariana Frangioni, thank you so much for your response, your research will be very helpful for my PhD prososal. Could you share me your research work? I Live in Mexico but I am amazed how Asia-pacific countries have been experiencing substantial economic development using ICT and building particular ecosystems for innovation. My interest is to explore which could be the reasons of this issues and how could be designed pathways for other developing countries.

I would recommend Rao and Weintraub: How innovative is your company's culture. They proposed six building blocks to create an innovative culture inside companies and how to measured. Afterwards, you could extrapolate or adapt to build an ecosystem for innovation.

Best, 

Juan Pablo García-Cifuentes

You may be interest to look to this paper: https://ideas.repec.org/f/psi457.html

Massimo Florio & Julie Pellegrin & Emanuela Sirtori, 2014. "Research intensive clusters and regional innovation systems: a case study of mechatronics in Apulia ..

This paper discusses some conditions under which the Cohesion Policy of the European Union can effectively contribute to enhance R&I in Europe and the extent to which it offers a relevant framework for devising Research & Innovation policies at regional level overcoming possible tensions and maximising potentials for synergy. To do so, the paper mainly relies on an in-depth illustrative case study of an Italian Southern region, Apulia. The paper describes the regional innovation system put in place by the Apulia Region and analyses the value added that can be attributed to such a system as far as innovation and economic development promotion are concerned; on this basis, findings from the case study are generalised in a set of lessons learned with hopefully more general relevance: these are discussed in Section 4.

There are several literature streams that can be useful, these are: national systems of innovation, regional systems of innovation, technological innovation systems, and the multilevel perspective. Scientific journal that devote many articles to these stream are: Research Policy, Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, Technovation, and R&D Management.