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Since the mid-1960's, the dissemination of technology via multinational corporations (MNCs) has accelerated.
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Since the mid-1960's, the dissemination of technology via multinational corporations (MNCs) has accelerated. As highlighted by Peter Dicken (2003, pp.85), technology, "an enabling or facilitating agent", is "one of the most important processes underlying the globalization of economic activity" which is now being transferred by MNCs through the advice and assistance to local firms. Indeed, due to the proprietary advantage of MNCs, that is to say large and specialized firms which can attract global markets to finance the necessary R&D, and their market power, consequently MNCs have naturally be considered as a very important agent of technology transfer" (UNCTAD, 1996). Therefore, some questions can be raise. What role do MNCs play in the process of technological development in host countries? To what extent have MNCs been responsible for a more widespread international diffusion of technological expertise? In order to understand those questions, this essay will first deal with some...
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