Research and Development: Linkages to Production in Developing Countries

While many developing countries rapidly expanded their scientific and technological capabilities during the 1960s and 1970s, the current international economic crisis has severely threatened these programs and the developing world has staggered under its debt burden. These economic difficulties highlight the need to utilize effectively the limited

Mary Pat Williams Silveira is scientific affairs officer at the UN Centre for Science and Technology for Development and is currently on loan to the United Nations Development Programme in Mozambique. She is co-author of Scientist and World Order: The Uses of Technical Knowledge in International Organizations (1977) and Science, Technology, and Global Problems (1979).