Sets out the implications for industrial policy in developing countries that can be drawn from recent research on firm and national technological capabilities. Many unconventional approaches to the issues of technology in developing countries exist. These approaches have assigned a central role...

1. Competitiveness and national technology systems : an introduction -- 2. The relative competitive and technological performance of Sub-Saharan Africa -- 3. Kenya -- 4. Tanzania -- 5. Uganda -- 6. Ghana -- 7. Zimbabwe.