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1 online resource (271 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Part One The Conceptual Framework; 1 Introduction: The Problem of Science and Technology Development in the Third World; Science and Technology: A Third World Development Puzzle; A New Development Agenda; The Meaning of the New Agenda; 2 Capacity-Building in Science and Technology: The Conceptual Framework; The Need for an Integrated Science Policy Model; The Science and Technology System; Science, Technology, and Development; Science, Technology, and Society; Science, Technology, and Culture |
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Capacity-Building: A Multidimensional Concept3 Existing Policy Perspectives: Relevance and Limits; Colonial Science and Technology: Diffusion from the West; Technical Assistance: Development from Above; Technology Transfer: Capacity for Absorption; Appropriate Technology: Capacity for Relevance; Self-Reliance: Capacity for Control; Technological Learning: Capacity for Technological Change; 4 Existing Worldviews: Significance and Limitations; Radical Disengagement Thesis: Capacity Through Delinking; Limited Disengagement Thesis: Capacity Through Autonomy |
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Radical Engagement Thesis: Capacity Through IntegrationPart Two Problems, Issues, and Strategies; 5 The Science and Technology System; Institutional Patterns; Organizational Patterns; Functional Dimensions; Educational Dimensions; 6 Science, Technology, and Development; Key Perspectives; Macro-Strategies; Micro-Strategies; Science and Technology-Based Development Programs; 7 Science, Technology, and Society; Science and Society: Theoretical Observations; Science and State; Science and Bureaucracy; Science and Cities; 8 Science, Technology, and Culture; Historical Notes |
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Theoretical PerspectivesContemporary Cases; Construction of the Science System: The Role of the Elites; Modernization and Global Linkage: The Role of the Elites; 9 Capacity-Building: New Visions for Science Policy; Modernization of the Science System; Science and Economic Modernization; Science and Political Modernization; Science, Modernization, and Rationality; Science and the Future of the Third World; References; Index |
| Summary |
Traditional strategies of technical assistance, technology transfer, appropriate technology, and self-reliance for science and technology development in the Third World, cannot be successfully implemented until Third World countries improve their fundamental organization of science and technology |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Engineering -- Research -- Developing countries
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Research institutes -- Developing countries
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Engineering -- Research
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Research institutes
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Developing countries
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429694394 |
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0429694393 |
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