National Capacities to Absorb and Institutionalize External Science and Technology
| Title: | National Capacities to Absorb and Institutionalize External Science and Technology |
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| Format: | Journal Article |
| Publication Date: | 1992 |
| Published In: | Technology Analysis & Strategic Management |
| Description: | This article describes a conceptual model of technology absorption and adaptation leading to a country’s export-based competitiveness in high-technology products, and the results of the model’s application to empirical data on 29 countries. The model is one output of a recently-completed, five-year investigation of indicators of high-technology development. The model’s seven conceptual variables were operationalized by combining statistical data with expert-derived measures to produce composite indicators. The seven indicators include four “leading” or input indicators that are expected to be predictive of a nation’s competitiveness, in high-technology products in approximately 15 years, and three output indicators of current competitiveness: world market share, national emphasis on high technology products for export, and recent rate of change in world market share. Extensive assessment of the validity and reliability of the indicators leads to the conclusion that the mode!! is a useful tool, for both policy and research. © 1992, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. All rights reserved. |
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| Citation: | Technology Analysis & Strategic Management. 4. Issue 2. 99 - 114. ISSN 0953-7325. DOI 10.1080/09537329208524086. |
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