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Pure research and science policy in tropical developing countries*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 September 2011

Thomas R. Odhiambo
Thomas R. Odhiambo
Affiliation:
The International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE), P.O. Box 30772, Nairobi, Kenya
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The conventional theology regarding the role of science in the social and economic development of the Third World is that its crucial function must be the transfer of technology from the science-based industrialized countries to the developing regions of the world. Indeed, ever since 1963, when the world took part in the “United Nations Conference for the Application of Science and Technology to Development” in Geneva, Switzerland, national planners in the Third World and economic planners attached to the donor community, have been consumed by the concept of transfer of technology as a short-cut to science-driven socio-economic development in the Third World. The 1979 United Nations Conference on Science and Technology for Development, on the same theme held in Vienna, Austria, reinforced this concept, and rather confirmed the policy of focussing human and financial resources on the technology facets of science rather than on the fundamental research aspects.

Type
Plenary Lectures I–III
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International Journal of Tropical Insect Science , Volume 8 , Issue 4-5-6: Recent Advances in Research on Tropical Entomology , December 1987 , pp. 391 - 395
Copyright
Copyright © ICIPE 1987

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