Szirmai, Adam
Professorial Fellow
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- INSTITUTE:
- UNU-MERIT
- OFFICE:
- Keizer Karelplein 19, 6211 TC, Maastricht, The Netherlands
- E-MAIL:
- szirmai@merit.unu.edu
- PHONE:
- +31(0)43 3884469
Research Interests
- International comparisons of growth and productivity in manufacturing in developing countries
- technological change and economic performance at sectoral level
- The relationships between innovation
Biographical Statement
Adam Eddy Szirmai is Professorial Fellow at the UNU Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) and Professor of Development Economics at the Maastricht Graduate School of Governance of Maastricht University.
His research focuses on international comparisons of growth and productivity in manufacturing in developing countries. He has been involved in research projects in manufacturing in Indonesia, China, South Korea, Tanzania, Zambia, South Africa and Japan. A second focus of his research concerns the relationships between innovation, technological change and economic performance at sectoral level. His research has a strong emphasis on empirical measurement of levels and trends in economic performance. A third area of research interest is that of the determinants of long-run growth and stagnation in developing countries.
In 2001, Palgrave Press published his volume on Tanzanian Industrialisation, co-edited with Paul Lapperre entitled The Industrial Experience of Tanzania. His textbook on development studies The Dynamics of Socio-economic Development was published by Cambridge University Press in 2005. Accompanying this textbook, a website has been developed with time series of economic and social indicators for developing countries. An second edition of this book is in preparation. In 2011, Oxford University Press will publish a volume on Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Development, coedited with Wim Naudé and Micheline Goedhuys.
Eddy Szirmai is engaged in ongoing research on changes in the global structure of manufacturing. This research focuses on long-run changes in the structure and location of manufacturing activities and the emergence of manufacturing in developing countries in the period 1950-2005.
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Articles
- Rooks, Gerrit, Szirmai, Adam and Sserwanga, Arthur (2012). Network Structure and Innovative Performance. The Case of Ugandan Entrepreneurs. Journal of African Economies (4), n/a-n/a
- Van Dijk, Michiel and Szirmai, Adam (2011). The Micro-Dynamics of Catch Up in Indonesian Paper Manufacturing: An International Comparison of Plant-Level Performance. Review of Income and Wealth (1), 61-83
Books
- Pathways to Industrialization in the 21st Century, New Challenges and Emerging Paradigms, ed. Szirmai, Adam, Naudé, Wim and Alcorta, Ludovico (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013).
- Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Economic Development, ed. Szirmai, Adam, Naudé, Wim and Goedhuys, Micheline (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).
- The Dynamics of Socio-Economic Development. An Introduction, ed. Szirmai, Adam (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005).
- The Industrial Experience of Tanzania, ed. Szirmai, Adam and Lapperre, P. (Houndmills/Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001).
- Innovation in Theory and Practice, ed. Szirmai, Adam, Verspagen, Bart and Halman, J. (Eindhoven: Eindhoven Centre for Innovation Studies, 1999).
- Economic and Social Development. Trends, Problems and Policies, ed. Szirmai, Adam (London, New York: Prentice Hall, 1997).
- Ontwikkelingslanden – Dynamiek en Stagnatie, ed. Szirmai, Adam (Groningen: Wolters-Noordhoff, 1994).
- Explaining Economic Growth. Essays in Honour of Angus Maddison, ed. Szirmai, Adam, Ark, B. van and Pilat, D. (the Netherlands: Elsevier/North Holland, 1993).
- Inequality Observed. A Study of Attitudes towards Income Inequality, ed. Szirmai, Adam (Aldershot: Avebury Press, 1988).
Reports
- Naudé, Wim and Szirmai, Adam (2013). Industrial Policy for Development. United Nations University.
- Bluhm, Richard, De Crombrugghe, Denis and Szirmai, Adam (2013). The pace of poverty reduction – A fractional response approach. UNU-MERIT.
- Wang, Lili, Meijers, Huub and Szirmai, Adam (2013). Technological spillovers and industrial growth in Chinese regions. UNU-MERIT.
- Szirmai, Adam (2012). Proximate, intermediate and ultimate causality: Theories and experiences of growth and development. UNU-MERIT.
- Naudé, Wim and Szirmai, Adam (2012). The importance of manufacturing in economic development: Past, present and future perspectives. UNU-MERIT.
- Bluhm, Richard and Szirmai, Adam (2012). Institutions and long-run growth performance: An analytic literature review of the institutional determinants of economic growth. UNU-MERIT.
- Bluhm, Richard, De Crombrugghe, Denis and Szirmai, Adam (2012). Explaining the dynamics of stagnation: An empirical examination of the North, Wallis and Weingast approach. UNU-MERIT.
- Lavopa, Alejandro and Szirmai, Adam (2012). Industrialization, employment and poverty. UNU-MERIT.
- Mupela, Evans and Szirmai, Adam (2012). Communication costs and trade in Sub-Saharan Africa. UNU-MERIT.
- Szirmai, Adam (2011). Manufacturing and Economic Development. UNU-WIDER.
- Szirmai, Adam and Verspagen, Bart (2011). Manufacturing and Economic Growth in Developing Countries, 1950-2005. UNU-MERIT.
- Naude, Wim, Szirmai, Adam and Goedhuys, Micheline (2011). Innovation and entrepreneurship in developing countries. UNU Policy Brief. UNU.
- Szirmai, Adam (2011). Angus Maddison and Development Economics. UNU-MERIT.
- Vertesy, Daniel and Szirmai, Adam (2010). Brazilian aerospace manufacturing in comparative perspective: A Brazil/USA comparison of output and productivity. UNU-MERIT.
- Vertesy, Daniel and Szirmai, Adam (2010). Interrupted innovation: Innovation system dynamics in latecomer aerospace industries. UNU-MERIT.
- Mirza, Bilal and Szirmai, Adam (2010). Towards a new measurement of energy poverty: A cross-community analysis of rural Pakistan. UNU-MERIT.
- Szirmai, Adam (2009). Industrialisation as an engine of growth in developing countries. UNU-MERIT.
- Sserwanga, Arthur, Szirmai, Adam and Rooks, Gerrit (2009). Interplay of Human and Social Capital in Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries : The Case of Uganda. UNU-WIDER.
- Szirmai, Adam (2008). Explaining Success and Failure in Development. UNU-MERIT.
- Kesidou, Effie and Szirmai, Adam (2008). Local Knowledge Spillovers, Innovation and Economic Performance in Developing Countries: A discussion of alternative specifications. UNU-MERIT.
- Wang, Lili and Szirmai, Adam (2008). Regional Capital Inputs in Chinese Industry and Manufacturing,1978-2003. UNU-MERIT.
- van Dijk, Michiel and Szirmai, Adam (2007). The Micro-Dynamics of Catch Up in Indonesian Paper Manufacturing: An International Comparison of Plant-Level Performance. UNU-MERIT.