Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Mani, Sunil
Author-Email: Mani@intech.unu.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: United Nations University, Institute for New Technologies
Title: Exports of High Technology Products from Developing Countries: Is it Real or a
	Statistical Artifact?
Abstract: This paper first develops a consistent time-series data on the exports of high
	 technology products from essentially the developing countries. An analysis of the
	 data shows that developing countries are increasingly becoming exporters of
	 manufactured products as against primary products in the past. Second the world
	 trade is increasingly becoming a trade in high tech products. What is more striking
	 is the significant increase of the technology content of exports by developing
	 countries: very nearly a quarter of the exports from developing countries is now in
	 high tech products. Third, the share of developing countries in high tech exports
	 have shown dramatic increases: it has increased from about 8 per cent in 1988 to
	 about 23 per cent by 1997. But there is considerable concentration of it in a few
	 countries. The paper then seeks to explain whether these developing countries are
	 real exporters of high tech products or not. This is accomplished by a careful
	 examination of the degree of product specialisation by both developed and
	 developing countries, by examining their record with respect to patenting and
	 finally by analysing certain indicators of high tech competitiveness. The paper
	 concludes by presenting a case study of a leading high tech exporter from the
	 developing world.
Keywords: High technology, Exports, Developing countries
Series: Discussion Paper
Creation-Date: 2000
Number: 2000-01
File-URL: https://www.merit.unu.edu/publications/discussion-papers/2000-1.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 373 Kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unuint:200001