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Development: Transfer of Technology, Transfer of Culture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2024

Jacques Binet

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Lately, the issues of “transfer of technology” seem to have become fashionable. However, they cannot be considered at length until those of DEVELOPMENT are clarified: transfer of technology is a means, development is an end, and, if we are not careful, we risk—in all good faith—being carried away by the example of the development and techniques of the “Northern countries,” while the needs and possibilities of the “South” may be quite different.

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Research Article
Information
Diogenes , Volume 32 , Issue 126 , January 1984 , pp. 19 - 38
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Copyright © 1984 Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie / International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP)