Comprende tres estudios de caso referidos a las empresas de maquinaria agrícola en Venezuela, tales como: Rota Agro, Tanapo y Nardi. Analiza, en cada una de ellas, la evolución tecnológica de la firma, los factores que la determinan y la incidencia que tiene su conducta en la posición...

The purpose of the present paper is to review some of the research findings obtained during the course of a four year long exploration into the economics of technology generation in LDCs. Individual firm and industry studies were undertaken by a team of economists and engineers in some of the...

The current paper aimed to investigate the reasons for the technological and competitive heterogeneity in the machine tool industry in Brazil. By analyzing the trajectory of the sector, we can highlight three main reasons for such heterogeneity. First, due to the competitive framework that...

We focus on the relationship of age and diversification patterns of German machine tool manufacturers in the post war era. Based on trade journals we track the entire firm populations' product portfolio development throughout each firm's lifetime. We distinguish between minor diversification and...