From infant industry to technology exports: the Argentine experience in the international sale of industrial plants and engineering works

Argentina, like most semi-industrialized countries has not so far been regarded as a potential exporter of technology. On the contrary, practically all of the available studies examine its performance as an importer of foreign know-how. There is a preliminary evidence, however, that in the last few years both Argentina and other ‘late industrialize’ — Brazil and Mexico within Latin America — have began to act as suppliers of technology in their neighbouring environments. Such new developments clearly deserve examination and will constitute the subject matter of the present chapter.