Projects
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Foreign Direct Investment and Technological Capability Building in Least Developed Countries: The Case of Tanzania
STIPRO has conducted a project entitled “Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and Technological Capability Building in Least Developed Countries: The Case of Tanzania”. The project was led by Dr. Astrid Szogs and involves 2 senior researchers and 4 project employed junior researchers. The major objective of the project was to identify
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The Role of FDI Report in Local Technological Capability Building
Foreign Direct Investments (FDIs) have been found to be important aspects of economic development of host countries, and crucial, in building technological capabilities of local companies in developing countries. It is a channel for international diffusion of technology, having the potential to transfer technological, organizational and managerial practices to developing
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Science, Technology and Innovation for Poverty Reduction in Tanzania
(An Analysis of the Sectoral Systems of Innovation) Tanzania is one of the poorest countries in the world. Like many other poor countries and in particular African countries, it is grappling with the poverty challenge nearly five decades after independence. The past two decades have however witnessed renewed interest in