Full Description
While many developing countries rapidly expanded their scientific and technological capabilities during the 1960s and 1970s, the current international economic crisis has severely threatened these programs and the developing world has staggered under its debt burden. These economic difficulties highlight the need to utilize effectively the limited
Contents
Also of Interest from Westview Press -- Foreword -- Preface -- Report of the Ad Hoc Panel of Specialists on the Reinforcement of Linkages between Research and Development and the Production System -- R&D Activities: Programme Formation and Programme Promotion -- Cross-cutting issues and questions in building successful R&D with production -- The potential for contribution of R&D to the production system -- R&D and industry—some considerations from the Brazilian experience -- Research and development: Know-why, know-how, know-good -- Mechanisms for Promoting and Institutionalizing Interaction -- Linkage mechanisms at the national level -- Modes of strengthening linkages between university R&D and production establishments -- Contract research: A mechanism for promoting interaction between a university and the production system -- Deployment of consulting engineering organizations in research and development -- A policy framework for linking the R and D system and the production system -- Examples of linkages between research and development activity and the production system in Italy -- Linkage mechanisms through international co-operation -- Technical co-operation among developing countries in industrial research -- The role of international non-governmental organizations in promoting the interaction between R&D and the production system -- Modern technology: Its transfer and diffusion to small enterprises -- Technological services delivery system -- Policy and Financing Mechanisms -- Policy and financing inputs to strengthen interaction between R&D and the production system -- Obstacles to linkages between R and D activities and the production system -- Mechanisms for achieving self-reliance in R&D activities useful to the production system -- The creation or reinforcement of linkages between national technological infrastructures and the productive sector: The limited role of shared-risk financing programmes in Latin American countries -- Promotion of linkages between the Hungarian R&D policy and the production system through financing -- Case Studies -- Reinforcement of linkages between research and development activities and production: a case study of Hindustan Lever research -- The development of the commercial process for cassava -- Transfer and adaptation of a technology of milk substitutes production in the Andean group: A Bolivian case study -- Pioneer Projects -- Overview
