Multinationals and Technology Development in Host Countries

Sanjaya Lall

Chapter 7 in Multinationals, Technology and Exports, 1985, pp 114-130 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The promotion of domestic technological capabilities is becoming a growing concern for the more industrialised of the developing countries (LDCs). Among the many issues that have arisen in this area, some of the most complex and controversial have concerned the proper balance and the nature of the interaction between foreign and indigenous technologies.2 In an activity like technological development, where dynamic learning effects and externalities are rife, many analysts have argued that there is a strong need for government intervention: untrammeled market forces by themselves would not lead to the optimal level of technological development in LDCs, and some deliberate exclusion of foreign technologies may be necessary to protect the learning process there.3

Keywords: Technology Development; Host Country; Foreign Investment; Parent Company; Local Firm (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1985
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-17952-7_7

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