Dr. Adam Szirmai is Professorial Fellow at UNU-MERIT and Professor of Development Economics at Maastricht University. His research focuses on international comparisons of growth and productivity in manufacturing in developing countries and on the changing structure of world manufacturing. A second focus of his research concerns the relationships between innovation, technological change and economic growth in developing countries. A third area of interest is that of the determinants of long-run growth and stagnation in the developing world.