Ideas in Development
Adopt AND innovate: How Brazil and Taiwan did both
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How can developing countries catch up with the technology frontier? The standard debate frames it as a choice between adopting technology from abroad and innovating at home. Karthik Tadepalli argues that this dichotomy is false – and that two of the twentieth century's most striking development stories show why.
In this episode of Ideas in Development, Karthik takes us from Taiwan's Industrial…