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Article: Lessons from Biafra: the structuration of socially relevant science in the research and production directorate *.
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- Social Forces
- Article date:
- June 1, 2005
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The literature on development, especially from the 1960s through the 1980s, has emphasized several perceived obstacles to technological development in developing countries, including a weak base of indigenous science and technology, scarcity of research and development institutions and activities, low public investment in research and development, poor training facilities, low manpower in science and technology, brain drain, and the absence of a capital goods sector that would motivate engineering designs and fabrications (Fabayo, Odejide, and Made 1995). Another assumed constraining factor is that because industries arrive in the Third World as turnkey operations, Third ...
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