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Analytics of the Technology Transfer Cost Issue

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  • KHALIL A. HAMDAN!

    (Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE).)

  • M.A. MAHMOOD

    (Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE).)

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An increasingly important issue of trade and development is the high cost of the transfer of technology from the developed countries to the developing world. Rough estimates suggest that payments by developing countries for the use of patents, licenses, trademarks, and managerial and technical services amounted to about $1.5 billion in 1968 [19]. For Pakistan, the issue is of particular importance. l Based on conservative estimates by Mahbub ul Haq, Pakistan's annual payments for technology transfer in 1965-70 averaged $102 million; this magnitude-again reflecting payments for the use of patented knowledge and technical services only-represents a payment rate of almost 16 percent of annual export receipts r19]. If other costs such as profit repatriation and transfer pricing are included, the payment rate is substantially higher.

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  • Khalil A. Hamdan! & M.A. Mahmood, 1976. "Analytics of the Technology Transfer Cost Issue," The Pakistan Development Review, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, vol. 15(2), pages 154-170.
    • Handle: RePEc:pid:journl:v:15:y:1976:i:2:p:154-170
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    1. Eckhard Siggel, 1983. "The Mechanisms, Efficiency and Cost of Technology Transfers in the Industrial Sector of Zaire," Development and Change, International Institute of Social Studies, vol. 14(1), pages 83-114, January.

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