Managing innovation projects in the global system

The scheme of global integration currently coming into place reduces tariff barriers while building other forms of restrictions. It is also not an equal one, with different countries integrating themselves at different levels. To improve these terms, the third world countries will have to develop innovation management. For a number of third world countries, this would consist of locating windows of opportunities and concentrating their resources in a narrow domain. It is argued that flexible production systems and process descaling provides such windows of opportunity today