Policies for Building Technological Capabilities: Lessons from Asian Experience
Should policymakers worry about technological activity in developing countries? Developing countries are clearly not technological “innovators” in the normal sense of the term and do not face the problems of stimulating frontier technologies that concern the advanced industrialized countries. Their...
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| description | Should policymakers worry about technological activity in developing countries? Developing countries are clearly not technological “innovators” in the normal sense of the term and do not face the problems of stimulating frontier technologies that concern the advanced industrialized countries. Their technological activity does not consist of finding and introducing completely new products and processes: the entire developing world contributes only about five per cent of the world’s expenditures on formal research and development (R&D). Practically all the industrial technologies that developing countries use have been imported from the developed industrial countries… |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9b59d47617ed4cd98a85f7ff4469a61b2023-06-28T04:21:47ZengWorld Scientific PublishingAsian Development Review0116-11051996-72411993-01-0111027210310.1142/S0116110593000090Policies for Building Technological Capabilities: Lessons from Asian ExperienceSanjaya LallShould policymakers worry about technological activity in developing countries? Developing countries are clearly not technological “innovators” in the normal sense of the term and do not face the problems of stimulating frontier technologies that concern the advanced industrialized countries. Their technological activity does not consist of finding and introducing completely new products and processes: the entire developing world contributes only about five per cent of the world’s expenditures on formal research and development (R&D). Practically all the industrial technologies that developing countries use have been imported from the developed industrial countries…https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/10.1142/S0116110593000090 |
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| title | Policies for Building Technological Capabilities: Lessons from Asian Experience |
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| title_fullStr | Policies for Building Technological Capabilities: Lessons from Asian Experience |
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| title_short | Policies for Building Technological Capabilities: Lessons from Asian Experience |
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