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Marshaling Technology for Development: Assessing the Challenge
Marshaling Technology for Development: Assessing the Challenge
Pages 29-34
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The new technology, if successful and useful, will diffuse and will replace older technologies, just as the railroads replaced canal transportation and motor vehicles and airplanes replaced railroads. It will then spread through trade, the exchange of information, deliberate technology transfer, conquest,-or industrial espionage.
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The important elements of such a technological infrastructure are: . An educational system that encourages creativity and the pursuit of scientific and technological knowledge · An educated and skilled work force · A network of capable research laboratories, linked together and able to gain access to scientific and technological information from the outside world · Facilities for product development and quality control, including testing and standards laboratories responding to international standards · Critical technical resources, including machine shops, precision foundries, and computational facilities .
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Finally, developing countries will find it advantageous to pool their scientific, technological, and educational resources with those of other, similar countries because few of them have enough skilled scientists and engineers and resources to make many breakthroughs alone. They must be receptive to the importation of new technologies, whether through foreign direct investment, joint ventures, or licensing from other countries.
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This is no less true in developing countries and may be even more urgent in some respects: efforts to develop and extend technologies in most such countries have often failed as a result of the lack of well-articulated teams of trained personnel to facilitate real technology transfer.
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In industrialized countries, many farmers use electronic networks and other modern information technologies to make this process more effective. This would likely work in developing countries as well, thereby facilitating technology transfer among farmers and strengthening their linkages with markets and price information.
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Equity issues surrounding different rates of investment and development in different regions may create unrest and lead to the persistence of poverty unequally within countries. Increasingly, the distinction will not be between developed and developing countries, but between populations that are technologically adept and those that are not, and between those that are plugged in to rapidly changing knowledge and those that are not.
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