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Economic Development and the Transfer of Technology: Some Historical Perspectives

In: Studies On Science And The Innovation Process Selected Works of Nathan Rosenberg

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  • NATHAN ROSENBERG

    (Stanford University, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, USA)

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Back in an earlier, more naïve day, we managed to allow ourselves to believe that there was a purely technological solution–a cheap “technological fix” –to the problems of poverty and economic backwardness which beset most of the human race. In the Point Four of his 1949 inaugural address President Truman spoke optimistically of the incalculable benefits which technical assistance could bring to improving the desperate plight of the poor throughout the world “We must embark,” he said, “on a bold new program for making the benefits of our scientific advances and industrial progress available for the improvement and growth of underdeveloped areas.”…

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  • Nathan Rosenberg, 2009. "Economic Development and the Transfer of Technology: Some Historical Perspectives," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: Nathan Rosenberg (ed.), Studies On Science And The Innovation Process Selected Works of Nathan Rosenberg, chapter 5, pages 71-96, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
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