Title: Building technological capabilities through international market linkages

Place: Geneva

Publisher: United nations conference on trade and development (UNCTAD)

Year: 2007

PAGE: 10--50

Subject: Value Chains for Development

Keywords: international trade, capacity building, imports, capital goods, developing countries, technology transfer, communication process

Abstract: A study of the LDC imports of technology embodied in machinery, equipment and other capital goods shows that the positive effects of technology spillovers, upgrading or learning-by-exporting are mostly absent.

URL: http://www.unctad.org/en/docs/ldc2007ch1_en.pdf

Document type: Portal