Economic Development and the Transfer of Technology: Some Historical Perspectives

Nathan Rosenberg

Chapter 5 in Studies on Science and the Innovation Process:Selected Works of Nathan Rosenberg, 2009, pp 71-96 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: AbstractBack 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.”…

Keywords: Science and Technology; Innovation; Research Development; Medical Innovation; Economic Growth; Development; Research Policy; Engineering (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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