CONTRIBUTION OF GLOBAL FIRMS TO TECHNOLOGICAL CAPABILITY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

Résumé

The contemporary company has a dynamic role and it incorporates technological changes at a pace unprecedented in history. In the search for competitiveness, it combines new strategies with technological and organizational innovations, building its own path when including learning starting from its history. The challenges of competitiveness surpass the boundaries of the company and they depend on systemic integration among the several agents. In this challenge context, firms and their ReD centers have incorporated dynamic conception of research and introduced new arrangements to achieve and maintain themselves on the technological frontier, strengthen their key competencies and reduce transition cost. In this dynamic process the integration with developing countries, could, in same cases, permit and encourage the construction of local capability, which contributes to the local innovation systems strength that is basic to the country's competitiveness. This possibility, otherwise, depends on the global strategy of the Group, the nature of technology, the technology trajectory of the sector and the market perspectives.