Developing Technological Capabilities in Agro-Industry: Ghana's Experience with Fresh Pineapple Exports
运用技术能力方法，考察加纳菠萝出口产业的兴起与衰退，分析出口商如何发展技术能力以及激励与抑制因素，指出能力发展不足是产业危机的核心，对非洲国家发展新农业工业有启示。
Abstract This article examines the emergence and trajectory of a new agro-industry in Ghana, the pineapple export industry, using the technological capabilities approach. It explains the limited expansion of the industry and its declining competitiveness in the face of new competition by looking at how Ghanaian exporters developed technological capabilities initially and the incentives and disincentives to building on those capabilities. The article argues that at the heart of the industry's crisis was an inability to further develop technological capabilities. The crisis had systemic features that have broader implications for developing new agro-industries in Ghana as well as other African countries.