ABSTRACT
The enormous difficulties experienced by most developing countries in their effort to industrialize do not lend great support to a set of arguments based at first sight on historical analogy and a relatively simple mechanistic view of the growth process. Following the arguments set out in Chapter 12, this chapter will focus directly on the technological issues which underlie the process of development. It aims to provide insights into how technologies evolve and diffuse and under what conditions a process of 'effective' technological catching up can take place.
