Technology Transfer in the Developing Countries

Preface - List of Tables - List of Figures - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction - SECTION 1 CONCEPTUAL ISSUES IN INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY DIFFUSION - Innovation, Management and Diffusion of Technology; M.Chatterji - Technology Transfer, Adaptation and Generation: A Framework for Evaluation; R.Kaplinsky - Analytical Perspectives on Technology Transfer; B.Aasen et al - The Development of Technological and Managerial Capability in the Developing Countries; N.Chantramonklasri - The Characteristics of Technology and the Development Process: Some Introductory Notes; M.Cimoli & G.Dosi - Spatial Dynamics, Innovation and Infrastructure: A Long Wave View of Regional Development in Developing and Developed Countries; P.Nijkamp - Achieving Technology-based Competitiveness in Developing Countries; D.J.Roessner & A.L.Porter - Technology Transfer and Economic Growth in the Less Developed Countries: A Technology Gap Approach; Z.A.Karake - SECTION 2 STRATEGIC DIMENSION OF TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER TO DEVELOPING COUNTRIES - Technological Mobility and Cultural Constraints; B.Padgett - Prevention of Dysfunctional Environmental and Social Conditions in Technology Transfer; K.Saeed - Technology Transfer and Rural-Urban Dualism; P.Basu - International Regulation of High Technology to the Developed Countries; T.A.Siddiqi - The Economic Role for Science and Technology: Generation, Transfer and Use; P.L.M.Heydemann - Consumer Choice in the Creation of High Tech Products in a Developing Country; T.Yamashita - Division of Labor and Infrastructure in Technology Transfer A.Lorentzen - SECTION 3 THE USE OF SPECIFIC TECHNOLOGIES IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT - Micro-computer Applications for Social and Physical Infrastructure Planning; P.W.Newton et al - Microcomputer Applications in Urban and Regional Planning in the Developing Countries; G.G.Van der Meulen - The Use of Intelligent Systems for Social and Economic Development; R.Sadananda - Issues Related to Nuclear Energy Transfer to Developing Countries; R.P.Chaturvedi - Transnational Corporations and Ocean Technology Transfer; C.Gopalakrishnan - Robots and the Imitation Process: Japan and the United States; E.Mansfield - Unconventional Technology Transfer and High-Tech Development in Newly Industrialized Countries; J.Meyer-Stamer - Technology and Global Economic Security; D.Ernst - SECTION 4 SOME NATIONAL CASE STUDIES OF TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER - Institutional Factors and Government Policies for Appropriate Technologies in Southeast Asia; S.Ichimura - Information Technology Transfer: The Singapore Strategy; A.L.Gilbert - Role of Transnational Corporations in Transfer of Technology to Singapore; T.Thiam-Soon & T.Chwee Huat - Technology Transfer and the People's Republic of China; S.Stewart - Technology Transfer and Maghreb Economic Integration: Current Issues and Future Prospects; A.Djeflat - The Dynamics of Corporate Technology Transfer to Nigeria; A.O.Olukoshi - Index