Knowledge and economic growth:: A strategy for developing countries

National economic growth is increasingly based on resources different from the traditional ones. Technology, information, learning, labour skills and experience, cooperation, networks are, among others, more and more important for the production processes. In this way, they give a competitive advantage to firms localized in geographic areas in which these resources are available. Developing countries must be able to adopt strategies to reinforce the access to these ones in order to insert themselves in the knowledge economy. In this paper the way in which these countries can access to the knowledge and innovations to achieve increased economic competitiveness and dynamism is analyzed. The constraints and/or opportunities they must deal with in this process are presented as well.