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MANAGEMENT AND UTILIZATION OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE, The Role of International Scientific and Technical Cooperation in National Economic Development--Norman Neureiter
MANAGEMENT AND UTILIZATION OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE, The Role of International Scientific and Technical Cooperation in National Economic Development--Norman Neureiter
Pages 53-60
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With them has come enough technical training and experience so that they can be maintained and serviced as required. At the most sophisticated level, a complete education infrastructure will involve primary and secondary schools that teach science and mathematics; colleges and universities where faculties in science and engineering are doing research to contribute to the world's store of basic knowledge and can train students in leading-edge science and technology; and finally a technology-based industrial community that can provide employment for graduate scientists and engineers.
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While work has been going on for more than 20 years on this project, the recently reconstituted international consortium of the United States, Japan, the European Union,
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Intellectual property rights are also important with regard to unique native plants or other biological materials that are collected by international firms or cooperating institutions, since these natural products may contain chemical compounds with great potential value in the pharmaceutical industry. There are a large number of problems in the world common to many c ountries -- for instance, dealing with natural disasters such as earthquakes and floods, securing enough clean water, understanding and mitigating the effects of global warming, dealing with HIV/AIDS, treating drug abuse, achieving protection against possible pandemics such as avian flu, and so forth.
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Furthermore, the United States was interested in helping Japan recover from the war as a bulwark against the aggressive communist regimes in the Soviet Union and China -- particularly after the Korean War in the early 1950s -- and encouraged U.S. companies to enter into technology licensing arrangements with Japanese companies.
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Again, an emphasis on scientific and technical education, heavy government investment in research and development facilities, concessionary funding for promising industries, and the return of many young engineers and engineering managers from the United States contributed to this success. In electronics, efforts to surpass Japan resulted in remarkable performance by Korean industry.
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There have been other examples of how scientists have been able to find a basis for agreement, even when politicians and diplomats have found it difficult. That is why I believe that international scientific and technical cooperation can be a positive and constructive instrument of foreign policy, contributing on the one hand to national economic development when that is the agreed objective, but also serving as a mutually beneficial element of substantive engagement between two countries even in the face of political conditions that make normal diplomatic or economic intercourse impossible.
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