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Technological Self-reliance: Sturdy Ideal or Self-serving Rhetoric

In: Technological Capability in the Third World

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  • Ronald Dore

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For the purposes of this paper, words are used as follows: Transfer of technology By ‘transfer of technology to developing countries’ I understand ‘getting knowledge that is only in some foreigners’ heads into the heads of one’s own nationals’. The learning process may well be largely accomplished by buying and studying some piece of imported capital equipment in which the new knowledge is embodied, as when the Japanese government bought its first Jacquard loom, and had its craftsmen dismantle and assemble it time after time until they had learned its technology and could then begin to think about devising or buying or stealing the technology of making it. And nowadays it may be a sensible shortcut to import both machine and its original devisers in some form of joint venture. But it is entirely possible for technology to be transferred as blueprints or as images in someone’s head.

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  • Ronald Dore, 1984. "Technological Self-reliance: Sturdy Ideal or Self-serving Rhetoric," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Martin Fransman & Kenneth King (ed.), Technological Capability in the Third World, pages 65-80, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-17487-4_3
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-17487-4_3
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    1. Forbes, Naushad & Wield, David, 2000. "Managing R&D in technology-followers," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 29(9), pages 1095-1109, December.
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    3. James DD., 1988. "Impact of technology imports on indigenous technological capacity: the case study of Mexico," ILO Working Papers 992587683402676, International Labour Organization.
    4. Abhijit Sharma & Theodore Panagiotidis, 2003. "An Analysis of Exports and Growth in India: Some Empirical Evidence (1971-2001)," Working Papers 2003004, The University of Sheffield, Department of Economics, revised Nov 2003.
    5. Amit Ray & Saradindu Bhaduri, 2001. "R&D and Technological Learning in Indian Industry: Econometric Estimation of the Research Production Function," Oxford Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 29(2), pages 155-171.

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