The Philippines is one of the leading exporters of high technology products from the developing world. However its production of these items is largely based on assembly of imported components. Affiliates of MNCs and small and medium local companies dominate the country's manufacturing sector....

This paper attempts to examine differences in technological capabilities between foreign and local auto parts, electronics, and textile and garment firms in Indonesia. Foreign firms enjoyed higher export incidence than local firms in all three industries. Foreign firms enjoyed higher overall...

In this paper we suggest that technological acquisition and innovation by firms involve new investment, and thus require a financial decision as well as a technological one. The level of analysis is the southern European countries and the impact of the European integration process on sectoral...

An analytical framework examines how industrialisation takes place through the development of technological capability in interactions with the evolution of market competition, government policy, corporate strategy, and social culture in the context of developing countries. The framework is...

Employing survey data, this paper investigates the basis for long-term sustainable development of industrial clusters in Lagos, Nigeria. We compare these metropolitan clusters with the Nnewi cluster, located within a rural setting in a homogeneous ethnic community. The characteristics of...

Using empirical and new field data, this exploratory study investigates the pattern of adoption of constraints to the use of the Internet in Africa. Cross country exercise using regression shows that Internet use is constrained by structural as well as cost-related factors. Field data from...

This paper uses a simplified version of classical information theory to improve understanding of the dynamic potential of innovation systems in developing countries with a special focus on issues of agricultural poverty. Using examples drawn from emergent knowledge markets in industrialised...

Drawing on an extensive survey of empirical work in the field of information technologies and biotechnologies, the paper highlights the relevance of new technologies in improving the quality and quantity of women's employment in the modern sector. The analysis identifies the differential impacts...

In this paper we employ firm-level data collected in three countries to analyze factors determining the adoption of internal e-business technologies in developing countries. The main objectives of the study are: identification of clusters based on technology adopted, classify firms in each...

This paper argues that the notion of interdependence between technologies and institutions which Dalum, Johnson, Lundvall (in Lundvall ed,. 1992) incorporate in the national system of innovation (NSI) approach is valid not only on the national level, but also on all levels of social...