Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Kumar, Nagesh
Author-Workplace-Name: United Nations University, Institute for New Technologies
Title: Technology Generation and Technology Transfers in the World   Economy: Recent Trends and Implications for Developing Countries
Abstract: This paper puts together new data on the technology generation and technology
	 transfers in the world economy over the 1975-1995 period to examine the emerging
	 trends and patterns. In particular we examine the trends in the country and
	 corporate concentration in the technology generation in terms of indicators of R&D
	 activity, patent ownership and receipts of technology fees and royalties against
	 the background of emergence of new core technologies and the recent trend of
	 corporate restructuring. It then examines trends and patterns in international
	 technology transfers as represented by royalty and technology receipts by major
	 source countries of technology and contrasts these trends with those in FDI
	 inflows. Then trends with respect to the mode of technology transfer are discussed.
	 The paper is concluded with a few observations for technology import policies of
	 developing countries.
Keywords: New Technology, Technology Transfer, International Economy
Series: Discussion Paper
Creation-Date: 1997
Number: 02
File-URL: http://www.intech.unu.edu/publications/discussion-papers/9702.pdf
File-Format:application/pdf
File-Size:  170 Kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unuint:199702