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: Moving up or going back the Value Chain : An examination of the role of government
	 with respect to promoting technological development in the Philippines 
Abstract: 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. Successive governments have
	 been grappling with the problems of moving up the value chain in the economic sense
	 of the term or going back it in the technical sense. The paper undertakes a
	 detailed review of the various policies and instruments put in place by various
	 governmental agencies to hasten this process. Availability of adequate quantity of
	 scientific manpower and financial schemes to encourage technology development at
	 the enterprise-level are identified as the key factor inputs that are required for
	 moving up the value chain. The analysis shows that the country has a serious
	 shortage of scientists and engineers and there are also serious questions about its
	 quality. Further technology financing schemes are insignificant and fragmented.
	 Consequent to this the institutional support that is available for moving up the
	 value chain in most high technology- intensive sectors is under some doubt. 
Keywords: Innovation Policy, Government Policy, R&D, Patenting, Venture Capital, Philippines
Series: Discussion Paper
Creation-Date: 2002
Number: 2002-10
File-URL: https://www.merit.unu.edu/publications/discussion-papers/2002-10.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 446 Kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unuint:200210