makes it difficult to attract and retain qualified 

 individuals. 



Experimental assistance programs, such as those 

 supported by AID's Office of Science and Technology 

 over the past five years, have demonstrated that 

 selective assistance — both material and consultative, 

 technical and managerial — directed toward these 

 deficiencies can significantly increase effectiveness, 

 which in turn can have a significant impact on 

 industrialization. 



We propos e that the United States offer to increase 

 its support of industrial research institutes, as 

 requested, by such mechanisms as specific research 

 project support through a grant program, development 

 assistance for research and development management, 

 facilitating access to world sources of technical 

 information, and aiding in development of industrial 

 extension services. A variety of means or "models" for 

 supplying such assistance to IRIs has been developed 

 and demonstrated with varying results (also see the 

 U.S. Bureau of Standards program described in 

 Initiative 3) . 



Initiative 6. Promote Interchanges of Personnel and 



Programs Among Industrial Research 

 Institutes in Developing Nations 



The idea underlying this initiative is the adage 

 that the whole may be greater than the sum of its 

 parts. Currently, a large number of developing 

 country institutions are performing industrial 

 research, often generating information and experience 

 that could be useful to other institutions. Mechanisms 

 could be developed to facilitate and expedite the 

 transfer of such information and experience. 



One such mechanism is a society whose members 

 (research managers) meet on a regular basis to exchange 

 ideas (this is to be contrasted with professional 

 societies normally organized by disciplines) . Such 

 societies exist in most industrialized nations and some 

 developing nations. In the United States, the 

 Industrial Research Institute, Inc. primarily brings 

 together top managers of research departments in 

 manufacturing corporations, who feel that this forum 

 contributes substantially to U.S. private research 

 efforts. The European Industrial Research Management 

 Association plays a similar role for industrial 

 research and development managers from the private 

 market economies of Western Europe. 



The World Association of Industrial and Technical 

 Research Organizations (WAITRO) , which is loosely 

 affiliated with the United Nations, is composed of many 



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