The report presents background material to facilitate discussions at the fourth session of the Commission on Enterprise, Business Facilitation and Development. It highlights the implications of the increasing knowledge-intensity of production in a globalizing world economy for the sustained competitiveness of enterprises, particularly SMEs in developing countries and the need for policy-makers to focus on technological capabilitybuilding as an essential element of their enterprise development strategies. In this context it also analyses the role of FDI, TNCs and domestic research and technology organizations in fostering technological upgrading and technologytransfer
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International Institute for Trade and Developement : UNCTAD Collection