REMARKS ON THE INDUSTRIALIZATION OF DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

There are many aspects to the transfer of technology. The problems are quite different, for example, in the case of a transfer from high technology to low technology companies in a given industrial community, compared to that between industrialised countries and developing countries, and, again, there are big differences from continent to continent because of educational and social backgrounds.
Since in ten minutes one can only deal with a single aspect, I will pick one which does not concern the nuts and bolts but the implications of the process as it is currently happening and which is not often discussed; but which I believe is crucial because ignoring it could seriously damage the whole transfer process to developing countries, the prospects for world trade and the relations between countries. It arises because of the very different rates of change encountered when communities with long-established practices are forced to unlearn these practices and acquire new ones, compared with the transfer of technology to communities which are building their industry in a green field.