Abstract
This article aims to elucidate theoretically the problematic dealing with the constraints of the success of technology transfer process to developing countries through synthesizing the main theoretical approaches. Numerous and important are barriers to implementation. They are dependent on several factors ranging from initial level of development of the receiving economy, the nature of the imported technology, the market structure, the state of competition. However, despite the size of these barriers to entry, it is obvious that the knowledge imparted should be properly absorbed by the receiving economy. This implies the ability of firms to learn and master imported technologies- which requires prerequisites in terms of human capital, basic skills, capital outlay required for the activity of RD as well as economic and social fundamentals of the host country for the proper handling of knowledge. This set of prerequisites identifies absorptive capacity which all developing countries wishing to optimize the transfer of technology should bring.
Highlights
The issue of technology transfer and the conditions attached to it has continued to ignite interest in the last few years
Recent theoretical developments indicate that the economic competitiveness of a country and its ability to integrate the world market is forged over the years by the presence of technologies were they produced or imported as in the case of developing countries that interest us in this essay
While considering a variety of factors including the quality of socio-economic organization of the receiving country, its geo-economic context and the strength of its human capital, these fundamentals include skills available in the country Home and essential to the use and operation of the technology, the assurance of the maintenance and improvement of management practices. They consist of outlays necessary for the promotion of learning like links within the national system of knowledge. This set of factors that affect the proper functioning and optimization of the process of technology transfer and that make a country absorb more efficiently the foreign technology than another one, define the concept of absorptive capacity that we propose to analyze under this section
Summary
The issue of technology transfer and the conditions attached to it has continued to ignite interest in the last few years. Recent theoretical developments indicate that the economic competitiveness of a country and its ability to integrate the world market is forged over the years by the presence of technologies were they produced or imported as in the case of developing countries that interest us in this essay. To reach this technological achievement, the way is long and strewn with obstacles of all kinds. It is far from being reduced to a brief relationship transmitter / receiver of knowledge It is a complex, multi-actor and follows a number of factors and conditions that determine its success.
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