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Foreign Technology and Indigenous Technological Capability in Brazil

In: Technological Capability in the Third World

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  • Carl J. Dahlman

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Developing countries almost by definition have a vast pool of foreign technology on which to draw. However, that a country relies heavily on foreign technology does not necessarily mean that it does not develop indigenous technological capability (ITC). This paper focuses on the experience of Brazil, a country that has drawn extensively on foreign technology for its economic development, to illustrate some of the possible positive relationships between the importation of technology and the development of ITC. The first section provides a short background on the importation of technology and on government science and technology policy in Brazil. The second section presents case studies that illustrate how three different industries were developed in Brazil using different combinations of foreign technology and local effort. Finally, the last section presents some implications for the creation of ITC, investment analysis, and industrial and trade policy.

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  • Carl J. Dahlman, 1984. "Foreign Technology and Indigenous Technological Capability in Brazil," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Martin Fransman & Kenneth King (ed.), Technological Capability in the Third World, pages 317-334, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-17487-4_17
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-17487-4_17
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    1. Rajah Rasiah & Shujaat Mubarik & Xiao-Shan Yap, 2017. "Financing Technological Upgrading in East Asia," Lahore Journal of Economics, Department of Economics, The Lahore School of Economics, vol. 22(Special E), pages 153-182, September.
    2. Rajah Rasiah & Nazia Nazeer, 2015. "The State of Manufacturing in Pakistan," Lahore Journal of Economics, Department of Economics, The Lahore School of Economics, vol. 20(Special E), pages 205-224, September.
    3. Rajah Rasiah, 2015. "The industrial policy experience of the electronics industry in Malaysia," WIDER Working Paper Series 123, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    4. Rajah Rasiah, 2015. "The industrial policy experience of the electronics industry in Malaysia," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2015-123, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    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.
    6. Todd, D.,, 1989. "Internationalisation of the aircraft industry : substance and myth," ILO Working Papers 992719863402676, International Labour Organization.
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    8. Oliveira, Renan P. & Oliveira, Alessandro V.M. & Lohmann, Gui & Bettini, Humberto F.A.J., 2020. "The geographic concentrations of air traffic and economic development: A spatiotemporal analysis of their association and decoupling in Brazil," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 87(C).
    9. Rajah Rasiah & Nazia Nazeer, 2016. "Comparing Industrialization in Pakistan and the East Asian Economies," Lahore Journal of Economics, Department of Economics, The Lahore School of Economics, vol. 21(Special E), pages 167-192, September.

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