TIPS Pietrobelli IND POLICY Gaborone 9 Dec 2008.pdf
TIPS Pietrobelli IND POLICY Gaborone 9 Dec 2008.pdf
TIPS Pietrobelli IND POLICY Gaborone 9 Dec 2008.pdf
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2. The microeconomic foundations. TechnologicalCapabilities and market failures in technology and learning• Neoclassical case against interventions based on a particularconceptualization of technology at the enterprise level ;• An alternative is the “technological capability (TC)”approach to understand innovation and learning in developingcountries. TCs are the skills technical and managerial – firmsneed to utilise technology efficiently and improve upon it.• This draws on the evolutionary approach, and on concepts suchas tacitness of technology, and technological efforts;• Thus, technological change is not exogenous butcomplementary to production. No essential difference betweenabsorbing, adapting and improving technologies and“breakthrough” innovation.• A learning process is always needed, and needs to be learnt.• The macroeconomic environment and the policy supportframework strongly affect the development of TCs.c.pietrobelli@uniroma3.itCREI, University Roma Tre7