Abstract
Despite government policy to promote indigenous technology in transforming industrial development, Nigerian still have different perspectives about the relevance of indigenous technology in emerging economies. Therefore, the paper set to find out the contributions of indigenous technology to manpower development and how domestic industries can be transform through indigenous technology in emerging economies. A descriptive survey research design was used. A duly validated structured questionnaire on 5 points rating scale was used for data collection. The population for the study consists of 105 manufacturers in construction and engineering industries. Data were analyzed using means and SD and t-test statistics to test the null hypotheses at 0.05% level of significance. Analysis through the use of SPSS computer programme was carried out on the responses of 97 respondents who returned the questionnaires. The findings revealed among other things that: through indigenous technology sufficient skilled workers are prepared to satisfy the needs of domestic industries, indigenous technology enhances competency of local tradesmen; absence of importation duties on raw materials through indigenous technology improve domestic industries. Considering the nature of indigenous technology, VTE and research institutions should focus their research work on promoting indigenous technology using locally sourced materials