In my opinion, the technology knowledge is hard to transfer. Technology knowledge transfer comes in many flavors and involves different parties depending on various situations. The success is dependent on several important factors, including the maturity of the technology, receiver’s expectations, and commitment from receiver. Moreover, successful technology knowledge transfer is also matter of timing.
There are many problems with transfer of technology knowledge in developing countries:
1. Lack of pool of scientists and researchers in specific domains
2. Brain drain
3. Small market size
4. Bureaucratic climate
5. Inability to make public investments in appropriate research and infrastructure.
Many new technologies generally are capital intensive and many of these countries may not have those resources. Generally the first adopters gets the benefits which favors the developed countries because of their resources