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Multinationals and Technology Development in Host Countries

In: Multinationals, Technology and Exports

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  • Sanjaya Lall

    (Institute of Economics and Statistics
    Green College)

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The promotion of domestic technological capabilities is becoming a growing concern for the more industrialised of the developing countries (LDCs). Among the many issues that have arisen in this area, some of the most complex and controversial have concerned the proper balance and the nature of the interaction between foreign and indigenous technologies.2 In an activity like technological development, where dynamic learning effects and externalities are rife, many analysts have argued that there is a strong need for government intervention: untrammeled market forces by themselves would not lead to the optimal level of technological development in LDCs, and some deliberate exclusion of foreign technologies may be necessary to protect the learning process there.3

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  • Sanjaya Lall, 1985. "Multinationals and Technology Development in Host Countries," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Multinationals, Technology and Exports, chapter 7, pages 114-130, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-17952-7_7
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-17952-7_7
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    1. Okada, Aya, 2004. "Skills Development and Interfirm Learning Linkages under Globalization: Lessons from the Indian Automobile Industry," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 32(7), pages 1265-1288, July.

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