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INTRODUCTION
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... Maintaining and strengthening the infrastructure for studies of the careers of individuals in S&T was critical to the future development of human resource policies. In the past, many international organizations had promoted the exchange of information about scientific opportunities among scientists; in the future, such organizations could play an important role in monitoring and enhancing human resources in S&T, as well as providing policy-relevant advice.
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... Panel ~ Monitoring Career Trends in Science and Technology The first panel's goal was to identify what data and information on human resources collected at the global and national levels reveal about trends in S&T careers. A paper on the work of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
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... The second technical paper took a regional view, based on a case study of the less developed countries of the European Community (Spain, Portugal, and Greece3, to address the conceptual problems of understanding the links between human resources and job availability. The regional study of human capital required the consideration of the complex relationships among education, employment, and economic policy.
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... Particular efforts were made to create a competent teacher workforce and to strengthen the linkage between the requirements of private industry and the development of human resources. In the European S&T context, it had long been appreciated that a nation could augment its competitive advantage through the skill and knowledge of its S&T workforce.
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... Some organizations with established programs for examining human resources in S&T, such as the European Community and the European Science Foundation, provided evidence that programs had been attempting to integrate some of the issues into their long-range planning. Others, with more traditional programs, such as the Third World Academy of Sciences and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, were challenged by the broader issues of the science career path.
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