business. Of course, long-term financial support is 

 essential for such centers if any degree of success is 

 to be derived. 



An excellent example of this kind of effort is the 

 Technology Consultancy Centre at Kumasi University of 

 Science and Technology in Ghana. The Centre is 

 primarily concerned with small-scale industries and 

 serves as an intermediary between specialists at the 

 university and its "clients." It has not, however, 

 created the field offices that might add to its already 

 proven effectiveness. The Centre provides technical 

 know-how and assists in the testing of new products in 

 pilot plants. It also furnishes technical assistance 

 in matters of quality control, commercial production, 

 access to credit, and improvement of equipment. 



In order to strengthen the impact of U. S. 

 assistance in this field, we further propose that the 

 United states offer to support one or more centers in 

 this country that could provide training, 

 demonstration, and technical support services as a 

 model for centers in developing countries. A U.S. 

 center could: 



— act as a training center for developing country 

 personnel who would establish similar programs at 

 home; 



— amass knowledge on small industry development 

 useful for a wide variety of circumstances; 



— act as a collection and distribution point for data 

 on technology; 



— perform research and development applicable to 

 programs in developing countries, using both 

 developing country and U.S. personnel; 



teach management techniques, such as the "project 

 management" concept, to developing country 

 personnel. 



This initiative is inspired by the success of a 

 program undertaken by the Georgia Institute of 

 Technology Engineering Experiment Station (EES) . 

 Initially this program was funded by the State of 

 Georgia to aid small rural industry within the state. 

 Many rural sections of Georgia are quite poor and 

 backward relative to much of the United States; in some 

 respects economic conditions within these areas 

 resemble those found in developing nations. Within 

 Georgia, EES programs are regarded as successful; 

 enterprises aided by the EES have returned tax revenues 

 well in excess of the total costs to the state 

 government of maintaining the station. 



During the mid-1960s, Georgia Tech extended its 

 operations internationally, by means of federal 

 funding, to work in rural areas of developing nations. 



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