Technological catch-up and strategic technology partnering in developing countries

Technological catch-up and strategic technology partnering in developing countries

This paper examines the trends in strategic technology partnering (STP) by firms from developing countries over the period 1980-94. The evidence shows that a small group of countries, namely the Asian NICs and Eastern Europe dominate STP activity. We also examine differences in organisational modes and how these have evolved over time, suggesting an increasing similarity between the NICs and Tr...

Strategic Technology Adoption under Technological Uncertainty

Detecting Technological Catch-up in Economic Convergence

Our aim is to address the problem of measuring how much of the convergence that we observe is due to convergence in technology versus convergence in capital-labour ratios, in the absence of data on the level of technology. To this aim, we first develop a growth model where technology accumulation in lagging economies depends on their propensity to innovate and on technological spillovers, and c...

Technological Leapfrogging by Developing Countries

Technological Leapfrogging by Developing Countries