Technology Transfer in the Developing Countries

406 Pages·1990·19.124 MB·English

by  Manas Chatterji (eds.)

TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER IN THE
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
Also by Manas Chatterji
ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT FOR TIIE DEVELOPING
COUNTRIES (editor)
ENERGY, REGIONAL SCIENCE AND PUBLIC POLICY
(editor with P. van Rompuy)
ENVIRONMENT, REGIONAL SCIENCE AND INTERREGIONAL
MODELING (editor with P. van Rompuy)
HAZARDOUS MATERIALS DISPOSAL: Siting and Management (editor)
HEALTII CARE COST CONTAINMENT IN NEW YORK: Problems and
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HEALTII CARE COST CONTAINMENT POLlCY: An Econometric Study
MANAGEMENT AND REGIONAL SCIENCE FOR ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT
NEW FRONTIERS IN REGIONAL SCIENCE (editor with Robert Kuenne)
SPACE LOCATION AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT (editor)
SPAT IAL, ENVIRONMENTAL, AND RESOURCE POLICY IN THE
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES (co-editor)
TIIE DYNAMICS OF REGIONAL CHANGE (editor with Robert Kuenne)
Technology Transfer
in the Developing
Countries
Edited by
Manas Chatterji
Professor of Management and Economics
State University of New York at Binghamton
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 978-1-349-20560-8 ISBN 978-1-349-20558-5 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-20558-5
© Manas Chatterji, 1990
Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1s t edition 1990
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First published in the United States of Ameriea in 1990
ISBN 978-0-312-03679-9
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publieation Data
Teehnology transfer in the developing eountries/edited by Manas
Chatterji.
p. em.
Some of the articles were seleeted from papers presented at an
International Conferenee on Teehnology Transfer in the Developing
Countries held at the Asian Institute of Teehnology, Bangkok,
Thailand, in January 1988.
ISBN 978-0-312-03679-9
1. Teehnology transfer-Developing eountries. I. Chatterji,
Manas, 1937- . 11. International Conferenee on Teehnology
Transfer in the Developing Countries (1988: Asian Institute of
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Contents
List of Figures xi
List of Tables XIl
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Notes on the Contributors XIV
Abbreviations XX
Introduction xxii
PART I CONCEPTUAL ISSUES IN INNOVATION
AND TECHNOLOGY DIFFUSION 1
1 Innovation, Management and Diffusion of Technology 3
Manas Chatterji
2 Technology Transfer, Adaptation and Generation:
A Framework for Evaluation 19
Raphael Kaplinsky
3 Analytical Perspectives on Technology Transfer 27
Berit Aasen, Erik Ransen, Ann-Therese Lotherington,
Aasmund Stenseth, and Rarold Wilhite
4 The Development of Technological and Managerial
Capability in the Developing Countries 36
Nit Chantramonklasri
5 The Characteristics of Technology and the
Development Process: Some Introductory Notes 51
Mario Cimoli and Giovanni Dosi
6 Spatial Dynamies, Innovation and Infrastructure:
A Long-wave View of Regional Development
in Developing and Developed Countries 76
Peter Nijkamp
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viii Contents
7 Achieving Technology-based Competitiveness in
Developing Countries 94
J. David Roessner and Alan L. Porter
8 Technology Transfer and Economic Growth in the
Less-developed Countries: A Technology Gap
Approach 104
Zeinab A. Karake
PART II STRATEGIC DIMENSION OF
TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER TO
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES 117
9 Technological Mobility and Cultural Constraints 119
Brian Padgett
10 Prevention of Dysfunctional Environmental and Social
Conditions in Technology Transfer 129
Khalid Saeed
11 Technology Transfer and Rural-Urban Dualism 140
Partha Basu
12 Factors inftuencing the Transfer of High Technology to
the Developed Countries 152
Toufiq A. Siddiqi
13 The Economic Role Model for Science and
Technology: Generation, Transfer and Use 166
Peter L. M. Heydemann
14 Consumer Choice in the Creation of High-Tech
Products in a Developing Country 180
Takahiro Yamashita
15 Division of Labour and Infrastructure in Technology
Transfer 193
Anne Lorentzen
Contents IX
PART III THE USE OF SPECIFIC
TECHNOLOGIES IN
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 209
16 Microcomputer Applications for Social and Physical
Infrastructure Planning 211
Peter W. Newton, J. R. Roy, R. Sharpe,
M. A. P. Taylor and S. N. Tucker
17 Microcomputer Applications in Urban and Regional
Planning in the Developing Count ries 225
George G. van der Meulen
18 The Use of Intelligent Systems for Social and
Economic Development 236
R. Sadananda
19 Issues Related to Nuclear Energy Transfer to
Developing Countries 249
Ram P. Chaturvedi
20 Transnational Corporations and Ocean Technology
Transfer 262
Chennat Gopalakrishnan
21 Robots and the Imitation Process: Japan and the USA 273
Edwin Mansfield
22 Unconventional Technology Transfer and High-Tech
Development in Newly Industrialised Countries 281
Jörg Meyer-Stanier
23 Technology and Global Economic Security 291
Dieter Ernst
PART IV SOME NATIONAL CASE STUDIES OF
TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER 305
24 Institutional Factors and Government Policies for
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Appropriate Technologies in South-east Asia 307
Shinichi Ichimura
25 Information Technology Transfer: The Singapore
Strategy 320
Arthur Lee Gilbert
26 Role of Transnational Corporations in Transfer of
Technology to Singapore 335
Tan Thiam Soon and Tan Chwee Huat
27 Technology Transfer and the People's Republic of
China 345
Sally Stewart
28 Technology Transfer and Maghreb Economic
Integration: Current Issues and Future Prospects 353
Abdelkader Djeftat
29 The Dynamics of Corporate Technology Transfer to
Nigeria 364
Adebayo O. Olukoshi
Index 375