(Industrial Policy and Technological Development: Lessons for Colombia)

Ludovico Alcorta et al.
Published in Spanish by Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, 1995
ISBN 958-9176-84-4, 327 pages.

Abstract
This collection of articles examines different developing country experiences of technical change and technology policy and suggests policy recommendations to improve the technological performance of Colombia's industry. It includes a number of conceptual papers including one modelling the role of capital goods production in economic growth and industrialisation, and another exploring the rationale for a technology and industrial policy. The collection has two papers on the importance of economic integration for Latin America, as well as the impact of globalisation on Latin American industrialisation and technological change. It also includes an article on the diffusion of new technologies in developing countries, specifically numerically controlled machine tools, and their impact on economies of scale and scope. Finally, a number of papers discuss the technology policy experiences in Chile and Colombia; the evolution and characteristics of successful ‘technological poles' such as Campinas, São José dos Campos and São Carlos in Brazil; and, the trajectory of useful technology institutions like the Fundación Chile in Chile, Centre for Technological Innovation and the Institute for Electrical Research in Mexico and the Centre for Technological Management and Industrial Informatics in Costa Rica.

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