Although both the industrialised countries and the developing countries have an interest in the transfer of technology, there is a considerable amount of disagreement as to how the gains from the transfer should be apportioned. Professor Hoffmann offers a theoretical analysis of the mechanisms...

One of the crucial themes in the dialogue between North and South is the nature and volume of the transfer of technology from the industrialized to the developing world. In contrast to the demand of overcoming the “technology gap“ Prof. Baumer argues that the postulate should rather be...