EXTERNAL MILITARY TECHNOLOGICAL TRANSFER AND STRUCTURAL CHANGE.
Abstract
The rapidity of technological change within a country is functionally related to a nation's propensity to borrow technology. Japan, with a celebrated propensity to borrow Western technology, has, in the post-World War II period, again made impressive gains, based in large part, on borrowed technology. The United States' military presence in Japan has been an important transmission belt making possible much of this technological transfer, and consequent structural change. This research points to basic conclusions that the impact of an external military is far from the negative image popularly conceived. A military presence endowed with a higher technical civilization can initate a fillip to a recipient country's structural evolution. Moreover, military aid, contrary to the often made negative contrast with economic aid, has long-term dynamic effects in the transfer of higher level technology which can shift production functions significantly over time. Implications of the United States military presence also can obtain for other countries as well, but with varying levels of intensity depending on the country's national propensity to borrow technology, and other strategic factors. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Feb 01, 1965
- Accession Number
- AD0612169
Entities
People
- Daniel L. Spencer
Organizations
- Howard University