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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 Possibilities (editor) 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 All rights reserved. For information, write: Seholarly and Referenee Division, St. Martin's Press, Ine., 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 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 Teehnology) T174.3.T392 1990 338.9'26'091724--de20 89-37929 CIP To my wife Contents List of Figures xi List of Tables XIl h~ ~ 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 vii 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 x Contents 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
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