How New Technologies from the South Are Taken By the Economic North: Future Acceptance?

Indeed, current acceptance of new technologies from the Economic South faces an unpredictable future. The disparity of both scientific and economic capital from the Economic South with respect to the North constitutes a major obstacle for the development of new technologies in the South. Governments and institutions in the South are making efforts to facilitate not only the production but the distribution of new technologies that would produce revenues to both the sponsoring institutions and the technologists who develop such new products or services. However, due to the enormous disparity of means many times innovations arrive late to the potential buyers of patents. This paper shows how in an Economic South country, regardless of a number of obstacles to be overcome, it is possible to develop new technological devices and offer them to the global consumption in an unequal competition.