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Effective cost sharing is becoming a more important element in the 

 construction of major new facilities. Collaborative projects would benefit 

 if coherent long term plan for the construction and sharing of facilities in 

 our countries were to be developed. 



Where appropriate, non-Summit countries have participated in seminars, and 

 other project activities. The scope for the involvement of non-Suninit 

 countries or other scientific and technological organizations is, of course, 

 different in each of the chosen areas for co-operation. The Working Group 

 has reaffirmed that the principal criterion for such involvement must be the 

 benefit that co-operation in a chosen area might acquire by this 

 participation. 



In sum, the activities stimulated by the Technology, Growth and Employment 

 initiative have both improved the climate of international co-operation and 

 helped to focus national science and technology discussions. In this way, 

 they have strengthened the links between national and international science 

 and technology. 



In looking to the future, the Working Group is firmly of the view that a 

 failure to take up opportunities for international collaboration may be just 

 as prejudicial to the introduction of new technologies and hence to economic 

 growth as the obstacles referred to earlier in the report. 



