ABSTRACT

This article will examine the efforts made by Argentina and Brazil to attain a measure of technological autonomy in the fields of computers and nuclear energy. Grieco’s study of the Indian computer industry 1 and separate studies of the Brazilian computer industry by Evans and Adler 2 have shown the inadequacy of the arguments raised by the dependency literature, 3 namely, that in areas of highly sophisticated technology, owned mainly by multinational corporations, the developing country will fail in any attempt to achieve domestic technological development. 4