Jörg Meyer-Stamer

Technology, Competitiveness and Radical Policy Change

The Case of Brazil

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume investigates the limited effectiveness of technology policy in the inward-oriented industrialization model of the past. It looks at the political structures that compromise the transition to the development model, and the restructuring effort within Brazilian industrial firms.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 491g
• ISBN-13: 9780714643793
• ISBN-10: 0714643793
• Artikelnr.: 21141605

Autorenporträt

Meyer-Stamer, Jörg

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Technology and industrial competitiveness in the context of import
substitution - general reflections and experience from Brazil: import
substitution, technology development, and technology policy in developing
countries; import substitution in Brazil - industrialization and
technological development in the face of weak competitive pressure; crisis
of import-substituting industrialisation and the political system in
Brazil. Part 2 Technology, innovation and industrial competitiveness - the
discussion in the OECD-countries - prospects for Brazil: technology,
innovation, and industrial competitiveness; technology policy for
industrial competitiveness - on the discussion in the OECD countries;
towards competitiveness - structural change in Brazilian industry and
politics; general conclusions for developing countries - points of
departure for a new technology policy. Tables: types of technology
transfers; trends of foreign direct investments, 1948-88; changes in
Brazil's education system.