Study in the political economy of technological development: Brazil's nuclear program

Thesis/Dissertation · Thu Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1987

OSTI ID:6955927

Goldman-Solingen, E

This study is focused on the impact Brazil's nuclear program has had on the development of industrial technological capabilities. In Part I, the theoretical framework, Chapter II discusses contending approaches to technological development, and the role ascribed to the state in this process. Chapter III examines the determinants of the state's behavior as conditioned by its nature and insertion in civil society, through a comparison between Brazil's and Argentina's nuclear program. Part II, the empirical study, evaluates the performance of the state sector (Section A), the private sector (Section B), and the scientific community (Section C) in the country's nuclear program, with systematic comparative references to the Argentine case. Chapter IV dissects a first moment in the process of technology transfer, namely, the bargaining over transfer modes. Chapter V examines a second phase, involving technological absorption, adaptation, and improvements. The impact of the program on the diffusion of technological capabilities into other industrial areas is the focus of Chapter VI. The conclusions place the nuclear program within the general patterns of technological behavior of state enterprises, evaluates opportunity costs and non-technological impacts, and the relevance of some of the findings to the general literature on the state in technological development.

• Research Organization: California Univ., Los Angeles (USA)
• OSTI ID: 6955927
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY, AND ECONOMY
290500 -- Energy Planning & Policy-- Research
Development
Demonstration
& Commercialization
290600* -- Energy Planning & Policy-- Nuclear Energy
BRAZIL
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
ECONOMIC IMPACT
ENERGY
GOVERNMENT POLICIES
INSTITUTIONAL FACTORS
LATIN AMERICA
NUCLEAR ENERGY
SOUTH AMERICA
TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER