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This paper explores how multinationals producing intermediate goods affect underdeveloped regions through the generation of supporting industry there by modifying the technology gap model which was built by Grossman & Helpman [1991] and Grass & Sagg [1998]. The main issue is that regions have two diff erent unreversible development pathways. When the region has wide initial technology gap between multinationals and domestic firms, the principal industry there is occupied with multinationals even the region succeed the economic development. Moreover, in that condition, some policies for increasing absorptive capacity to generate technology transfer and linkages, such as the education or the training of workers, become ineffectual due to the indeterminancy caused by a complex mechanism of the interaction in the wide range of that absorptive capacity to cover the wide technology gap. It would be wider the technology gap between multinationals and domestic firms rather than narrower it. Past studies showed that wide initial technology gap must be filled with increasing absorptive capacity to be realized technology transfer. However, this paper stresses that this must be done within a limited time to avoid the region progressing the other unreversible development pathways. As for the model, this has three unique points. The first one is that this model focuses the developing country which has never succeeded technology transfer enough such as Mexico. The second one is that multinationals and domestic firms achieve technology transfer by diff erent means (imitation and learning by doing) to reflect the recognition of absorptive capacity on this paper, particularly capital goods industry. Finally, there are multinationals producing intermediate goods in the model. These multinationals express east and south-east Asian multinationals which are expanding all over the world these days.
