Productivity growth and learning potentials of Thai industry

Abstract

Enhancing technical potentials in enterprises has become an important issue in various dimensions found in the literature. The learning-by-doing alone will not keep technology dependency firms competitive in the global economy. This article presents a new framework of linkages for technology concentration industries classified under the ISIC category (light and heavy industry) and learning potentials of Thai industry under a platform of technology acquisition. A measure of productivity growth is to see the impetus for technology transfer whereas the learning curve estimation technique is a tool to measure the learning potentials of Thai industry. This is a try to measure the competence progression emerged from technical productivity and the collective learning across boundaries of Thai industry. This aims at exploring a relationship between technical productivity and learning potentials of Thai industry. The article also presents clusters of industries with good learning potentials, and learning effect that implies the marginal return to resources allocated for productivity improvement of which it varies across industries.