The Politics of Technological Upgrading: International Transfer to and Adaptation of GM Cotton in Argentina

Valeria Arza and Patrick van Zwanenberg

World Development, 2014, vol. 59, issue C, 521-534

Abstract: We describe patterns of international transfer to and adaptation of genetically modified (GM) cotton in Argentina, and ask whether political bargaining between the technology owner, a multinational enterprise (MNE), and host country actors may have influenced upgrading. We suggest that the MNE was able to use its exclusive capacity to upgrade GM cotton technologies as a negotiation tool to persuade host actors to change the rules that affected its multi-lines of business in the country. This implies wider policy scope to encourage technology upgrading; host actors could negotiate over a wider range of aspects of interest to MNEs.

Keywords: agricultural biotechnology; multinational seed industry; technology transfer; technology adaptation; political bargaining; cotton; Latin America; Argentina (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2013.10.023

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