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Technological advancement represents a key factor in the growth and development of the economy as well as in the well-being of each country’s population. The specialized international bodies (UNCTAD, OECD, etc.) have shown that some emerging states have made a great technological leap that enabled them to achieve significant economic growth and reduce absolute and relative poverty. However, the technological gap between the rich and the poor states is still alarmingly wide, showing no signs of reduction in the near future. Multinational companies play an important role in ensuring the transfer of such technologies between their structures located in industrialized countries to their subsidiaries from developing economies, through production, R & D, etc. In doing such a transfer, a special issue is the security of transferring research, development and technology. These dimensions can contribute greatly to the generation of competitive advantage and the better positioning of these companies on the market.
The authors attempt to highlight some of the reasons behind this technological gap that runs counter to sustainable development, against the backdrop of the strategies adopted by multinationals and of the consequences following from the intensification of economic globalization, under the new configuration of the global supply chain.
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Postelnicu, C., Dabija, DC. (2015). Transfer and Diffusion of New Technologies Within the Supply Chain of Multinational Companies with Operations in Romania—A Contemporary Approach. In: Vaduva, S., Thomas, A. (eds) Geopolitics, Development, and National Security. SpringerBriefs in Political Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12685-2_3
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