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Technological Change through Learning in LDCs - UN report
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This [1] report states:
Effective policy to promote technological progress requires a good understanding of how technological change occurs. For poor developing countries, technological change occurs primarily through learning — that is, the acquisition, diffusion and upgrading of technologies that already exist in more technologically advanced countries — and not by pushing the global knowledge frontier further.
In short, the key to technological progress in the LDCs is technological catch-up through learning rather than undertaking R&D to invent products and processes which are totally new to the world. Technological learning is critical for innovation in LDCs. It is the development of the capabilities to use and improve technologies, and encompasses:
Core competences, which are the routine knowledge, skills and information needed for operating established facilities or using existing agricultural land, including production management, quality control, and repair and maintenance of physical capital and marketing; and
Dynamic capabilities, which refer to the ability to build and reconfigure competences to increase productivity, competitiveness and profitability and to address a changing external environment in terms of supply and demand conditions.
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[1] report : http://www.unctad.org/en/docs/ldc2007_en.pdf
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