ABSTRACT

Any innovation in science and technology will diff use once it is publicized. Since World War II there has been an international trend to diff use technology; spontaneous at fi rst, with the United States and Germany spreading the relatively low-tech and labor-intensifi ed technologies into Japan and the Four Little Dragons, namely Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and South Korea. Th e same thing happened in the 1970s, but from some developed countries to the developing countries on an international scale with specifi c purpose. Th is increasing diff usion of technology exerts great infl uence on industry structure, economic policy and development, social, and cultural life.