Technology transfer and sustainable development in emerging economies

Javier Carrillo ()
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Javier Carrillo: Instituto de Empresa

Working Papers Economia from Instituto de Empresa, Area of Economic Environment

Abstract: (WP 01/03 Clave pdf) This paper aims to show how the process of diffusion of "clean technologies" confronts a variety of forces at the macro level that create systematic, technological and institutional barriers to their adoption. There is abundant literature on the role of technology transfer in the development of emerging economies, but this perspective is clearly new. What needs to be borne in mind is the possibility that the transferred dominant technology may be subject to a techno-institutional lock-in at its source that does not allow the diffusion of environmentally superior alternative technologies.

Keywords: Developing economies; Sustainable development; Techno-institutional lock-in; Technology transfer (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 20 pages
Date: 2003-03
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