The transfer of technological know-how to developing countries: Technology licensing, tacit knowledge, and the acquisition of technological capability
Indian technology policy appears to have been based on the promise that though technology imports are important for growth, it could hinder technological effort in the recipient country. A model with two technology importing firms and a technical input supplying domestic sector competing with technology suppliers in the developed world is analyzed. Domestic purchases convey a beneficial externality on other users so that the resulting market outcome is inefficient. However, absent synergies between technological efforts of users and the learning activities in the domestic technical input sector, restricting technology imports will not encourage domestic technological efforts. The empirical literature suggests that technological efforts and technology imports are complements. Many of these econometric studies on the subject are found to suffer from methodological problems. A unifying framework and a simple way of testing for complementarities between decision variables using reduced form regressions is provided.
- Research Organization:
- Stanford Univ., CA (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 7167586
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: Thesis (Ph.D.)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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