Study On Technological Capabilities Development Of The Developing Countries' Manufacturing Under Catch-Up Strategy

As the accelerative pace of economic globalization, increasing amalgamation of global production and market, and both "Comparative advantages" and "The advantage of backwardness" facing predicament, pushing economic growth through technological progress is the realistic choice for developing countries' economic catch-up. So developing countries' economic catch-up increasingly depends on technological catch-up under the accelerated globalization. Technological catch-up requires enhancing the technological capabilities (TC) continuously, because none but TC development can help developing countries to be the winner in the course of globalization. Consequently, how to enhance their TC rapidly must be the key issue for developing countries' catch-up. With industrial perspective, the dissertation studies the TC development mechanism of the developing countries' manufacturing uder the catch-up strategy through theoretical and empirical analysis. Based on reviewing the previous studies of TC theory from concept, element, evolutive track, and building or developing mechanism, the dissertation involves the following contents:Firstly, the dissertation presents the TC development framework of developing countries' manufacturing uder catch-cp strategy, based on extending technological catch-up theory. The study concludes four catching-up models in developing countries: following on the same trajectory, diversifying on the same trajectory, growing up on the different trajectory, and creating on the later trajectory. Following points out the characters of TC development uder catch-up strategy are acceleration, aiming at independent innovation, comparing with leaders, and synergistic growth, the dissertation analyzes the "industry-firm-national project" framework of TC development: developing countries should change the status without core technology and make all nodes of industrial technology develop harmoniously at industrial level, enhance TC from inner efforts and exterior supports at firm level, and realize the core technology's independent innovation and catch-up at national project level.Secondly, based on analyzing the synergistic development mechanism of industry and technology, the dissertation presents the TC development mechanism of the developing countries' manufacturing uder the catch-up strategy at industrial level. This dissertation points out the inchoative pattern of developing countries' synergistic development of industry and technology is not developed countries' "technological progress push industrial improvement" but "industrial improvement pull technological progress". After defining core industry chain and core technology chain, it concludes that developing countries must push the synergistic development of industry and technology based on synergistic development of core industry chain and core technology chain, then points out core industry chain extension is the foundation of enhancing TC, and presents the TC development mechanism of developing countries' manufacturing based on core industry chain extension, involving two aspects: development of "product architectural technology-core element technology-key manufacture technology" on the core technology chain and development of "use-assimilation-independent innovation" at each node of core technology chain, and analyses the case of TC evolvement of China Hualu Panasonic AVC Co. LTD. in audio-visual equipment industry.Thirdly, the dissertation constructs a model of TC development of developing countries' manufacturing firms based on four dimensions: industrial environment driving, technological cooperative network, outer technological transfer, and inner technological efforts, then makes empirical analysis. After defining the TC of developing countries' manufacturing firms, this dissertation analyses the factors for firm's TC from above four dimensions, and presents the model of TC development of developing countries' manufacturing firms. The empirical analysis based on Chinese technology-intensive manufacturing firms indicates: (l)the factors of industrial environment driving all influence TC remarkably, policy supports and industial synergy have positive influence but market pressure has negative influence, (2)the longitudinal and transverse relation of technological cooperative network have no remarkable influence on TC development, (3)outer technological transfe has negative influence, and (4)about the dimension of inner technological efforts, technological investment has positive influence on TC development but innovation atmosphere has no remarkable influence. Then this dissertation discusses the reason of the exceptional empirical results combined with reality, and makes suggestions for TC development of Chinese manufacturing firms.Lastly, based on analysing the characters of technical object of manufacturing national project, the dissertation discusses TC development mechanism of the developing countries' manufacturing at national project level from practical foundation, approach and organizational mode. The dissertation analyses the characters of technical object from the object's speciality and developing countries' matters, and the dynamic interrelation of knowledge base and technological efforts, and points out the national project is a special technological effort for realizing independent innovation, and that the base of TC development is the knowledge base cumulated from using and assimilating and the capabilities of improving and innovational imitating. This dissertation points out technology integration innovation is the primary approach of TC development at national project level, and analyses the process of it from modularizing, module-switching, module-integration, and system-integration. The dissertation points out cooperative innovation network is the primary organizational mode for TC development at national project level because of the object's speciality and developing countries' matters, and discusses the structure of it from notion-leading or platform, technology integration, application- feedback, and sponsoring or funding, then analyses the case of independent innovation of Coke Dry Quenching Technique.