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organizational form, and he reinforced domestic efforts to replicate this 

 form by committing to it his own continuing presence. What was needed was 

 some method of extending the format to other professionals for whom foreign 

 service might, at first glance, seem less relevant. In achieving this 

 extension, we must look first at the career requirements of this second 

 and hitherto largely absent group of specialists. 



We have now identified linkage with the international science 

 community as an important missing ingredient in the research-producing formula. 

 The continuing presence of first class scientists from the advanced sector 

 has proven an economic and powerful way of achieving this linkage, but the 

 technologically-oriented researcher has hitherto absented himself from this 

 activity. If he can be brought into the picture we will have met the con- 

 ditions that produce durable, technological innovation-producing entities 

 of a critical size that will attract and sustain young domestic theoreticians 

 and help them to establish functional authority and current practice inter- 

 faces. 



Why have our own assistance programs not attracted these specialists 

 in the past? The answer is that, for such individuals, a proposed activity 

 has to be on their terms. The competent, up-to-date researcher tends to be 

 rather hard-headed in deploying his time and - working in terms of current 

 perceptions - foreign service has not in the past, and does not now appear 

 to him to be professionally rewarding. Acquired at a distance, these per- 

 ceptions tell him, first, that it is an extremely difficult business to enter 

 into professional research abroad and that, if it is undertaken, the payback 

 will be extremely limited in terms of his career requirements. 



