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 capacity of the science community by means of this openness to adapt itself 

 over time. His immediate objective will be to provide the specialist - however 

 irrelevant may seem his interests from a distance - with exposure to the under- 

 developed setting. The visiting professor arrangement was an uneconomic way 

 of achieving what must be more directly accomplished. The search for research 

 opportunity and professional linkage abroad has always had to justify itself 

 in terras of other prior purposes - teaching, consultation, tourism. Circum- 

 stances no longer tolerate the inefficiency of such subterfuge, and the equa- 

 tion must be reversed so that research becomes the prior purpose of the foreign 

 venture. It will take a sophisticated kind of administrator to accomplish 

 this. Some of the excursions that he encourages will not be productive, 

 others will. With an eye to the stakes, he must feel comfortable playing 

 the percentages. 



Where the imprecise dynamics of professional attraction do make 

 a connection - where the traveler encounters problems of sufficient intellec- 

 tual challenge to unseat other alternatives in his research portfolio - the 

 administrator's second task is to make it possible for the specialist to pro- 

 gram his personal involvement on his own terms. Only the individual researcher 

 can effectively deploy resources including his own time, identify, train 

 and influence his associates, determine the pace of the work and generate a 

 high quality research product, especially where he works in a strange and 

 still unfamiliar setting. This calls for a style of administration which 

 respects the conditions of science and yet demands of these conditions a rele- 

 vant, high-quality product. 



The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has an activity of this 

 kind in the field of civil engineering and is planning a second in management. 



