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On Semi-Industrialized Countries and the Acquisition of Technological Capabilities

Highly industrialized countries in North America, Europe, and Asia have the potential to succeed in undertaking practically any kind of technological development and eventually bringing to market the results of their research and development, according to the author. But sufficient evidence is also available about specific instances of successful technological development in selected Asian and Latin-American countries that are somewhere in between, called "semi-industrialized."

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