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 MEEDS AMD GOALS FOR A FUMD FOR SCIENCE AMD TECHNOLOGY FOR DEVELOPMENT 



The type of assistance which is needed to respond to opportunities 

 for science and technology (S&T) development is not only the large 

 contract for a single institution but a more efficient provision of many 

 small and highly targeted grants which respond to the particular needs of 

 individual researchers and institutions. 



The exact nature and focus of the needs have been detailed already in 

 the US submissions fro^ the Department of State, prepared by the National 

 Research Council and other US S&T institutions, for the 1979 United 

 Nations Conference on S&T for Development in Vienna. The needs and 

 approaches noted in this proposal build on those observations and add a 

 competitive granting system which maximizes individual and institutional 

 initiative and which rewards administrative and research efficiency. 



The specific goals of this project add the following to the general 

 needs for S&T development: 



1. Increasing the cooperation and linkage of all S&T manpower for 

 development in the many institutions where they now often work in 

 isolation - universities, ministries, research institutes, corpora- 

 tions, etc. 



2. Reorienting the S&T research in these institutions toward 

 development priorities in the nation. 



3. Reinvigo rating the S&T research institutions and increasing morale 

 of individual researchers by providing new, though small-scale, 

 resources for research embedded in an incentive system. 



4. Increasing the productivity of the African science establishment by 

 providing certain small but key missing elements of research infra- 



