Integration of Science and Technology with Development

Thomas, D. Babatunde & Miguel S. Wionczek, Eds., Integration of Science and Technology with Development / Caribbean and Latin American Problems in the Context of the United Nations Conference on Science and Technology for Development, Pergamon Press: New York, 1979.

Proceedings of a symposium held in Miami, Apr. 6-8, 1978, sponsored by Florida International University, the Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of the West Indies, and the Institute of Development Studies, University of Guyana.

The papers in this volume are organized under, and discuss the following areas:

1. The building of a minimum local capability to produce scientific knowledge and technological know-how is the preconditions for the successful application of science and technology to the solution of difficult intricate problems of underdevelopment;

2. the task of establishing a local science and technology capability in the development countries must start with strengthening S&T infrastructure, and improving or redesigning the mechanisms of technology transfer from the advanced countries;

3. there is a need to know more about concrete technological experiences and difficulties of individual LDC [Less Developed Countries] and, in particular of small LDCs, and

4. the time was ripe to take stock of the achievements and failures of numerous science and technology policy agencies established in Latin America and the Caribbean in the 1960s and the early 1970s.