ABSTRACT
This chapter presents material from interviews conducted with 24 firms in two industries, regarding their Technological Capability (TC) accumulation. The main findings of the firms' studies reveal that the existence of TC differs between firms within the industry. First, firms carried out improvements to existing process technologies (or added new elements to them) to make the equipment or machine more suitable for the needs of production. Second, some companies have improved product specifications: modification of foreign models taken from catalogues; improvement of quality and design of products by changing minor details, Third, companies made minor improvements in the organisation of production, to achieve more optimal variants. The organisation of change activity in most firms varies but is quite active in many cases. Some firms have created special units for dealing with technical problems in production. In all companies, there were no radical changes to their production technologies or major improvements in the design of their products.
