Abstract
This paper reviews the accumulated evidence from a number of firm-level case studies of technical change in Latin American manufacturing industries carried out during the late 1970s and 1980s. These studies, it is argued, have considerably advanced our understanding of the nature, determinants and impact of incremental technical change in industrial enterprises. But while the studies are of considerable importance to discussions of infant industry protection and dynamic comparative advantage, their restricted scope does not allow us to arrive at any hard-and-fast policy conclusions. The paper closes with a consideration of some possible research issues for the 1990s, emphasizing how firm-level technical change may be affected by changing macroeconomic conditions and the advent of new, microelectronics-based technologies.
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