The book focuses on successful cases of technology transfer and
integration into the world economy. They identify factors that
could enable firms in developing countries to upgrade
technologies or develop new technologies with a view to
enhancing their productivity and competitiveness. Thus, these
cases are expected to provide lessons, in terms of best
practice, to other developing countries in the context of
technological capacity building. The book deals with sectors
where selected developing countries have demonstrated their
ability to create new productive capacities and successfully
participate in the world market. They represent examples of
created comparative advantage - that is, cases in which a
country´s factor endowments were modified through investment in
physical capital, human resources and the building up of
capacities so as to develop and use new technologies. The
lessons for other countries lie not in the actual selection of
the industry but rather in how each of the three countries
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