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Technological Capability in the Third World: An Overview and Introduction to some of the Issues raised in this Book Read chapter Read first chapter

1984 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Facilitating Indigenous Technical Change in Third World Countries

Author : Frances Stewart

Published in: Technological Capability in the Third World

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK

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What is indigenous technology? I take it to be a local capacity to create/adapt/modify technology. In other words, as well as the creation of some completely new technology, it includes the local development of technology already known elsewhere and the local modification of imported technologies.

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Title
Facilitating Indigenous Technical Change in Third World Countries
Author
Frances Stewart
Copyright Year
1984
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Book
Technological Capability in the Third World

Print ISBN: 978-0-333-36062-0

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-349-17487-4

Copyright Year: 1984

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17487-4_4