Transferência de tecnologia , o papel das empresas multinacionais

Abstract

This text makes an incursion into the debate on technology transfer from developed countries to developing countries. Technology is an element of vital importance for the economic development of peoples. Technology, defined as the knowledge that communities have on how to carry out certain activities, from the most elementary to the most complex, is (most of it) produced in developed countries, as they benefit from resources (financial and human), and an infrastructure technological structure developed (research and development laboratories - R&D, instruments for the protection of intellectual property, to encourage R&D). If the requirements for the production of technology are below the capacities of the developing countries, with an infinity of shortcomings, it seems that there is no other alternative than to depend on the technology of the developed countries. The problem is that most of the technology is produced by private (multinational) companies, which contributes to the costs of the technology being each, sometimes higher. In addition, another barrier to technology transfer is the legislation on protection of intellectual property, which in recent years has been strengthened in developed countries. . The study is basically theoretical, and results from the literature review on the topic, with emphasis on the approach advocated by the school of extremities and linkages, whose points of view are very well embodied in the article by Wang and Blomstrõm (1992): After the revision of literature, the student estimates a regression, with which he intends to .identify the determinants of foreign direct investment (which is the main way of transferring technology) in sub-Saharan Africa, in the period 1992-1996.