Product Description: This text provides a comprehensive introduction to the many different issues related to the Sisyphean task of building science and technology capabilities in developing countries. It attempts to answer crucial questions including: how can knowledge be utilized to improve the human condition, and how can we bridge the growing knowledge divide between those who produce and use modern science and technology - and those who do not? Francisco Sagasti examines the complex interactions between science, technology and development through history, explores how capabilities in these areas are created in different countries and places the role of international co-operation in perspective...read more

Product Description: Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are increasingly being recognized as essential tools of development―tools that can empower poor people, enhance skills, increase productivity and improve governance at all levels...read more

Product Description: 'Innovation Systems' is part of the World Bank Working Paper series. These papers are published to communicate the results of the Bank's ongoing research and to stimulate public discussion.The World Bank has gained significant experience and has an important role to play in supporting innovation systems projects...read more

Product Description: This book draws together recent contributions by Sanjaya Lall - a leading authority on international investment, technology and industrial policy - on competitiveness and its major determinants. It draws upon his wide experience of competitiveness analysis in Asian and African countries and his recent work on technology and skills...read more

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This volume presents ten original essays and four commentaries contributed by leading scholars in technology and innovation that discuss how newly industrializing countries (NICs), particularly those in East Asia, have transformed themselves from technologically backward and poor to relatively modern and affluent economies over the past thirty years. They provide interesting theoretical perspectives and the insightful understanding of the process of technological progress at both the macro and micro levels in these countries. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Technology, Market Structure and Internationalization discusses the domestic and external factors that impinge upon the process of technological capability building in developing countries and draws policy implications. Specifically, it examines the interaction between technological effort in developing countries...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: It is now widely accepted that technology is desirable, indeed essential, for growth and development within any economy. However, economists and planners have only recently started to consider the question of applying technology within developing countries...read more

Product Description: This work examines the consequences of the size of developing nations for key technology variables, identifies specific problem areas in this context, and discusses the technology policy options open to planners and other policy makers in the smaller Third World countries.

Product Description: Looking at examples of East Asian development and pointing out the commonalities behind differing policies, goals, and cultural and economic systems, the authors draw on developments in technology choice, technological change, institutions and human resources.