Nature of Exported Technology

Sanjaya Lall

Chapter 9 in Developing Countries as Exporters of Technology, 1982, pp 59-72 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract An assessment of the growth and implications of technological development in, and technology exports by, developing countries should ideally be undertaken after a comprehensive collection of data and a detailed examination of the individual enterprises involved in the technology transfer process. The existing literature on this subject is in its infancy. The vast literature on the history of technical progress in developed countries,1 on the ‘pure’ theory of technical change and recent ‘evolutionary’ approaches to innovation,2 on the relationship between growth, productivity change and innovation,3 and on the micro and macro-economic conditions for innovation,4 offers some extremely valuable insights. The focus of these enquiries has, however, been rather different, and, in the absence of empirical testing, it is difficult to judge how relevant their findings are to the conditions of the developing countries.5 General theories of ‘latecomers’ catching up with the advanced nations along Gerschenkronian lines,6 while appealing in the broad sweep of their historical inevitability, leave unanswered many questions of detail about how different enterprises, industries and countries ‘catch up’, where they fail, and what to do about it.

Keywords: Direct Investment; Technical Progress; Capital Good; Technology Transfer Process; Relative Factor Price (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1982
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-05435-0_9

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