Technological Capability in the Third World

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Technological Capability in the Third World: An Overview and Introduction to some of the Issues raised in this Book....Pages 3-30
Science, Technology and Education in the Development of Indigenous Technological Capability....Pages 31-63
Technological Self-reliance: Sturdy Ideal or Self-serving Rhetoric....Pages 65-80
Facilitating Indigenous Technical Change in Third World Countries....Pages 81-94
Determinants and Consequences of Indigenous Technological Activity....Pages 95-112
Technological Innovation, Industrial Organisation and Comparative Advantages of Latin American Metalworking Industries....Pages 113-136
Front Matter....Pages 137-137
Trade in Technology — Who, What, Where and When?....Pages 139-160
International Constraints and Opportunities....Pages 161-173
Relations of Production and Technology....Pages 175-184
Front Matter....Pages 185-185
‘Learning’ and the Accumulation of Industrial Technological Capacity in Developing Countries....Pages 187-209
Education, Organisation of Work and Indigenous Technological Capacity....Pages 211-222
Front Matter....Pages 223-223
India’s Technological Capacity: Effects of Trade, Industrial, Science and Technology Policies....Pages 225-243
Achievements and Limitations of India’s Technological Capability....Pages 245-261
Insular and Open Strategies for Enhancing Scientific and Technological Capacities: Indian Educational Expansion and its Implications for African Countries....Pages 263-277
Sources of Technological Capability in South Korea....Pages 279-300
Some Hypotheses Regarding Indigenous Technological Capability and the Case of Machine Production in Hong Kong....Pages 301-316
Foreign Technology and Indigenous Technological Capability in Brazil....Pages 317-334
The Utilisation of Professional Engineering Skills in Kenya....Pages 335-353
Indigenous Technological Capability in Africa: The Case of Textiles and Wood Products in Kenya....Pages 355-374
Facilitating an Indigenous Social Organisation of Production in Tanzania....Pages 375-390
Back Matter....Pages 391-404