INTERNATIONAL TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER: GENERAL ISSUES 



AND PROCESSES 



Adams, Scott. Information for Science and Technology: The International Scene. 

 [Champaign] University of Illinois, Graduate School of Library Science, 1973. 

 45 p. (Illinois, University. Graduate School of Library Science. Occasional 

 papers no. 109) "US ISSN 0073-5310" 



Parital contents. — Information for postwar research and development. — 

 Freedom of information. — New dimensions of international cooperation. — - 

 Information transfer to developing countries. 

 Allen, Thomas J., James M. Piepmeier, and S. Cooney. "The International 

 Technological Gatekeeper." Technoloc/y Review, v. 73, Mar. 1971: 37-43. 



"The international transfer of technology takes place through intermediary 

 agents called technological gatekeepers. For greatest effectiveness, these 

 men must be well integrated both into an external network of information 

 sources and an internal network of users to who the information can be 

 delivered." 

 Bar-Zakay, Samuel N. "Policymaking and Technology Transfer: the Need for 

 National Thinking Laboratories." Policy Sciences, v. 2, summer 1971: 213-227. 

 "The author suggests that National Thinking Laboratories should be 

 established to promote organized technology transfer and to act as catalysts 

 to organized policymaking. Their charter should be to match needs in one 

 context to capabilities in another context. This charter is outlined in opera- 

 tional terms by five general objectives listed by the author." 

 Bischel, Jon E. "Exportation of American Technology and the Federal Income 

 Tax; part 1: Direct Transfers." Syracuse Law Review, v. 22, no. 4, 1971: 867-893. 

 Bischel, Jon E. "Exportation of American Technology and the Federal Income 

 Tax, part II: Indirect Transfers." Syracuse Law Review, v. 23, no. 1, 1972: 1-32. 

 Follow-on to 1971 article on direct transfers of technology. Discusses 

 technology transfer abroad as affected by the Federal income tax. Focuses in 

 particular on nonrecognition and deferral tax provisions and on international 

 income allocation regarding the "use of intangible property. 

 Bobrow, Davis B. Technology-related International Outcomes: R and D Strategies to 

 Induce Sound Public Policy. Pittsburgh, International Studies Association, 

 University of Pittsburgh, Occasional paper no. 2, 1974. 60 p. 



"The discussion presented in this paper seeks to provide a starting point for 

 a doctrine for making and shaping R&D decisions which are directed to the 

 production of desirable and feasible public policy for technology-related 

 international problems. Designs for purposeful action involve tliree related 

 statements : performance goals, operational requirements for their realization, 

 and the action instructions necessary to meet these requirements. The strategic 

 problem for the R&D decision-maker is to devise and induce those policy 

 institutions and actions which will make the probabilities of desired inter- 

 national outcomes substantially greater than they would be otherwise. 

 Explicitly or implicitly, the R&D results sought are sets of instructions which 

 if followed will either produce an outcome reflected in advance or at least 



?rovide reasoned judgments about what outcomes are desired and feasible. 

 Ising these design standards, the paper focuses on the most prevalent 

 approaches now current to determine their premise in meeting these standards 

 and the extent to which they are adapted to the strategic problem mentioned 

 earlier. As a result of this limited appraisal an alternative approach is offered 

 at a high level of generality, based on the premise that if pursued for a number 

 of years at substantial expenditure for international incomes, it stands an 

 inherently better chance of meeting the strategic problem than do the 

 current approaches which are briefly analyzed. After a summary of the 

 notions introduced for R&D strategies for technology-related international 

 outcomes, the paper concludes with a recommended program of 'experi- 

 ments' to determine the value, to relevant officials, of the alternative R&D 



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