Structural reforms and technological behaviour: The sources and nature of technological change in Latin America in the 1990s

The opening up to foreign competition, the deregulation of a vast array of markets and the privatization of public-sector firms have been inducing major changes in the structure and behaviour of the Latin American economies. The aim of this paper is to describe some of these changes and to identify the new patterns of firm behavior, the new institutional environment and the new policy agenda gradually emerging in the region in the field of Science and Technology as a result of recent trade liberalization and market deregulation efforts.