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‘Learning’ and the Accumulation of Industrial Technological Capacity in Developing Countries
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Discussion of the role of ‘learning’ in the process of technological development is made difficult by the fact that the term is used to refer to a range of quite different concepts. In common use, the term refers to various processes by which skill and knowledge are acquired by individuals or perhaps organisations. In the context of discussion about technological development, it is often used in this way — for example, to refer to the processes by which individual enterprises acquire technical skills and technical knowledge. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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- Authors
- Bell, M.
- Venue
- Technological Capability in the Third World
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Published
- 1984
- Pages
- 187-209
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- W2415339307
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- 368
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 26.90
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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