"technological backwardness" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when referring to a situation in which a place or period of time lacks access to, or is behind in, technology compared to another place or time. For example, "In the 1950s, the Soviet Union was plagued by technological backwardness compared to the West."
Technological backwardness, sheer incompetence, the intellectual effects of decades of self-imposed isolation — all possible.
Urban jobs are few because technological backwardness limits export competitiveness in urban-based manufactures and services.
It's all a rare and cheering triumph in a Russia more noted for its collapsing infrastructure and technological backwardness than a cutting edge entertainment industry.
Analysts say the oil industry suffers from the inefficiencies and technological backwardness that other Soviet industries face, only on a larger scale.
This deceleration was inevitable as China advanced from extreme poverty and technological backwardness to become a middle-income economy powered by external trade and consumer spending.
Taken as a whole, the scholarship explains East Asian success as the calculated adjustments in policy to aid economic actors in overcoming bottlenecks and technological backwardness.
Technological advances and backwardness?
By 1906 he had come to view the mandarin bureaucracy and the Vietnamese monarchy as symbols of a backwardness that would forever prevent technological progress and the development of an autonomous state.
This is the paradox that I find most curious: we are at once a sophisticated nation benefiting from scientific and technological advances, and yet we can display a surprising backwardness.
The backwardness of the agency's computing and record keeping, revealed in the McVeigh case, is at least in part the product of resisting technological advances that businesses and other government agencies long ago embraced.
ECONOMIC backwardness has its advantages.
