关键词: 技术自立, 技术学习, 产品开发, 自主创新, 技术依赖

Abstract: It is the differences among latecomers’ technological learning stages that are important references to industrial and technological policies. But such different stages and their differences were not emphasized in extant researches on technological learning. Based on an analysis of technical change, this paper introduces the concept of ‘technological self-reliance’ to depict the learning stage which focuses on latecomers’ assimilation of foreign technologies, and to illustrate its importance as the necessary stage in the transition from technological dependence to innovation. We emphasizes the decisive role of self-reliant product development in casting off technological dependence and getting technological self-reliance based on theoretical analysis and empirical evidences from four sectors. At the final part we discusses the significance of ‘technological self-reliance’ as an independent concept to understand the technical change and industrial development in China.