Research and Development - Mary Pat Williams Silveira

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Résumé :

Also of Interest from Westview Press -- Foreword -- Preface -- Report of the Ad Hoc Panel of Specialists on the Reinforcement of Linkages between Research and Development and the Production System -- R&D Activities: Programme Formation and Programme Promotion -- Cross-cutting issues and questions in building successful R&D with production -- The potential for contribution of R&D to the production system -- R&D and industry-some considerations from the Brazilian experience -- Research and development: Know-why, know-how, know-good -- Mechanisms for Promoting and Institutionalizing Interaction -- Linkage mechanisms at the national level -- Modes of strengthening linkages between university R&D and production establishments -- Contract research: A mechanism for promoting interaction between a university and the production system -- Deployment of consulting engineering organizations in research and development -- A policy framework for linking the R and D system and the production system -- Examples of linkages between research and development activity and the production system in Italy -- Linkage mechanisms through international co-operation -- Technical co-operation among developing countries in industrial research -- The role of international non-governmental organizations in promoting the interaction between R&D and the production system -- Modern technology: Its transfer and diffusion to small enterprises -- Technological services delivery system -- Policy and Financing Mechanisms -- Policy and financing inputs to strengthen interaction between R&D and the production system -- Obstacles to linkages between R and D activities and the production system -- Mechanisms for achieving self-reliance in R&D activities useful to the production system -- The creation or reinforcement of linkages between national technological infrastructures and the productive sector: The limited role of shared-risk financing programmes in Latin American countries -- Promotion of linkages between the Hungarian R&D policy and the production system through financing -- Case Studies -- Reinforcement of linkages between research and development activities and production: a case study of Hindustan Lever research -- The development of the commercial process for cassava -- Transfer and adaptation of a technology of milk substitutes production in the Andean group: A Bolivian case study -- Pioneer Projects -- Overview