ABSTRACT

This chapter discusses some aspects of the changing role of MNEs as producers, transferors and disseminators of technology and technologic­ al capacity, 1 and how their activities may affect the international competitiveness of countries. The argument adopts the theoretical framework of the eclectic .paradigm of international production devel­ oped in previous chapters, and relates this to the concept of technological cumulation (Pavitt, 1987).