BUNROEUN Thach

Competitive advantage of Cambodian industries: analysis of trade specialization patterns/ Bunroeun Thach, Ratha Chea and M. Dolores Garza-Gil

This article aims to understand CAmbodia's long-term trade specialization patterns at the country and industry levels. To achieve this, trade specialization indices are constructed for a sample of 253 industries. The findings suggest that Cambodia lacks Schumpeterian entrepreneurs, who have the organizational and technological capabilities to learn and adapt new knowledge and technologies into the local context before diffusing them into the broader economy to build national competitiveness.


NATIONAL INNOVATION SYSTEM
NET TRADE SPECIALIZATION
STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE--CAMBODIA