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Excerpt from the Report of the London Summit of the Working Group 

 on Technology, Growth, and Employment 



Progress in the 18 Areas for Co-operation 



The Working Group has noted with pleasure the growth of international 

 collaboration in the 18 different areas for co-operation identified in its 

 report to the Williamsburg Sunmit of 1983. Developing effective 

 international collaboration takes time but nonetheless, significant progress 

 has been made in many areas in one or more of the following respects: 



a. the establishment of effective and informal international networks 

 between research institutes in specified fields of science and 

 technology; 



b. the identification and initiation of collaborative research activities 

 within the chosen areas for co-operation; 



c. the involvement of countries outside the Economic Summit grouping and 

 of relevant international science and technological organizations. 



Individual progress reports are attached in the Annex, but there are a number 

 of general observations which can be made. 



The nature of the agreed international co-operation differs between the 

 areas. In several, the working groups have agreed the basis on which they 

 will continue to exchange information arising from existing national 

 programmes. In some, this had led to the inauguration of regular seminars 

 and meetings to discuss research results. In others, the groups have tried 

 to identify a framework for research within which new national projects can 

 be planned, which will mean those projects will produce results which are 

 comparable across national boundaries. 



In both these types of collaboration, close bilateral and multi-lateral 

 relationships have developed between research institutes, which hold out the 

 prospect of genuine joint projects in the course of future collaboration. 



In certain other topic areas, notably those where there has been already a 

 good deal of international co-operation through existing institutions (for 

 example remote sensing from space, biological sciences), the setting up of 

 the working groups has created the opportunity to review the effectiveness 

 of current collaborative machinery and to identify ways forward. The aim 

 has been to assist the planning of programmes within existing networks of 

 collaboration. 



