Science And Technology Lessons For Development Policy

Introduction -- Introduction -- General Theoretical Notions and Typologies -- Scientific and Technological Constraints to Economic Growth and Equity* -- The Structuralist Perspective to Economic Growth and Development: Conceptual Foundations and Policy Implications -- On Technological Capabilities and Their Acquisition -- The Development of Technological Capability in Manufacturing: A Macroscopic Approach to Policy Research* -- Relevant Experience at the Country Level -- Science and Technology Policy for the Asian NICs: Lessons from Economic History -- Science and Technology Policy: Lessons from Japan and the East Asian NICs -- Relevant Experience at the Sector Level -- Science and Technology Policy: Lessons from the Agricultural Sector in South and Southeast Asia -- Industrial Efficiency and Technology Choice -- Private Inventive Activity in Indian Manufacturing: Its Extent and Determinants -- The Process of International Transmission of Technology -- Trade and Technology in the Developing Countries -- R&D By Multinational Firms and Host Country Exports* -- Technology Transfer for Development -- Intellectual Property Rights, R&D, Inventions, Technology Purchase, and Piracy in Economic Development: An International Comparative Study

Biography

Robert E. Evenson, Gustav Ranis