The Changing Role of MNEs in the Creation and Diffusion of Technology

This chapter discusses some aspects of the changing role of MNEs as producers, transferors and disseminators of technology and technological capacity, 1 and how their activities may affect the international competitiveness of countries. The argument adopts the theoretical framework of the eclectic .paradigm of international production developed in previous chapters, and relates this to the concept of technological cumulation (Pavitt, 1987).