Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Cooper, Charles, 1936-2005

Description

1. 199 pages; 25 cm

Summary

1. Monograph comprising a compilation of articles on the role of science and technology in the economic development of developing countries - includes articles on the social determinants of science policy, engineering consultants and technology transfer, the function of patents, agricultural development, choice of technology, sources of technical Innovation in China, etc., and emphasizes the role of research and development. Diagrams, references and statistical tables.

Subject

1. Science > Social aspects > Developing countries
2. Technology > Social aspects > Developing countries
3. 83.62 economics of technology
4. 83.32 economic policy
5. 02.00 science and culture in general
6. Science > Social aspects
7. Technology > Social aspects
8. Technischer Fortschritt
9. Wirtschaftswachstum
10. science
11. technology
12. economic development
13. science policy
14. engineering
15. consultant
16. technology transfer
17. patent
18. agricultural development
19. choice of technology
20. innovation
21. research and development
22. statistical table
23. Science > Social aspects > Developing countries
24. Technology > Social aspects > Developing countries
25. Sciences > Aspect social > Pays en voie de développement
26. Technologie > Aspect social > Pays en voie de développement
27. technologie
28. développement économique
29. politique scientifique
30. ingénierie
31. transfert des techniques
32. brevet
33. développement agricole
34. choix de technologie
35. recherche et développement
36. tableau statistique
37. ciencia
38. tecnología
39. desarrollo económico
40. política científica
41. ingeniería
42. consultor
43. transferencia de tecnología
44. patente
45. desarrollo agrícola
46. elección de tecnología
47. innovación
48. investigación y desarrollo
49. cuadros estadísticos
50. Developing countries
51. Entwicklungsländer
52. China
53. developing countries
54. Developing countries > Science
55. Chine
56. pays en développement
57. países en desarrollo

Genre/Form

1. reference.
2. référence bibliographique.
3. referencia.

Contents

1. Science, technology and production in the underdeveloped countries : an introduction / Charles Cooper -- Social determinants of science in Latin America : explicit science policy and implicit science policy / Amilcar Herrera -- Engineering consultancy, industrialization and development / John Roberts -- Farm and factory : a comparison of the skill requirements for the transfer of technology / Peter Kilby -- Patents revisited : their function in developing countries / Constantine Vaitsos -- Choice of technique in developing countries / Frances Stewart -- Acquisition of agricultural technology : its determinants and effects / Clive Bell -- Note on the choice of technology in China / Shigeru Ishikawa -- Note on the sources of technical innovations in the People's Republic of China

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Note

1. "This collection of papers was first published as the October 1972 special issue on science and technology in development of the Journal of development studies, volume 9 no. 1."

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographies.