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We face a future in which rapid technical change will affect developed countries as well as the modern sectors in developing countries; but in which the poor majority of developing countries will be excluded from most of the benefits of such change. As trade barriers are relaxed inthe global market place poor small scale producers are obliged to compete next to businesses with access to equipment and knowledge of a far greater technical sophistication. This article points to the crucial role of technology for small-scale businesses and argues that market forces alone
will not deliver the technologies that the poor need fast enough to prevent the gap widening between the modern sector (the 'included') and the traditional sector ('the excluded').
We face a future in which rapid technical change will affect developed countries as well as the modern sectors in developing countries; but in which the poor majority of developing countries will be excluded from most of the benefits of such change. As trade barriers are relaxed in
the global market place poor small scale producers are obliged to compete next to businesses with access to equipment and knowledge of a far greater technical sophistication. This article points to the crucial role of technology for small-scale businesses and argues that market forces alone
will not deliver the technologies that the poor need fast enough to prevent the gap widening between the modern sector (the 'included') and the traditional sector ('the excluded').
the global market place poor small scale producers are obliged to compete next to businesses with access to equipment and knowledge of a far greater technical sophistication. This article points to the crucial role of technology for small-scale businesses and argues that market forces alone
will not deliver the technologies that the poor need fast enough to prevent the gap widening between the modern sector (the 'included') and the traditional sector ('the excluded').
LA PÉPINIÈRE D'ENTREPRISES DANS LE CONTEXTE D'UN PARC SCIENTIFIQUE: L'EXEMPLE DU CENTRE QUÉBÉCOIS D'INNOVATION EN BIO TECHNOLOGIE À LAVAL, QUÉBEC (CANADA)
DOLOREUX, DAVID
The Canadian Geographer/Le Géographe canadien, Vol. 43 (1999), Iss. 4 P.423
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1541-0064.1999.tb01399.x [Citations: 1]Innovation diffusion: research agenda for developing economies
Da Silveira, Giovani
Technovation, Vol. 21 (2001), Iss. 12 P.767
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0166-4972(01)00007-4 [Citations: 23]The “Picnic” model for research training at African universities: Evaluation and preliminary comparison
Stigter, C.J.
van den Bor, W.
Daane, J.R.V.
Adam, Hussein S.
Mohammed, A. Eltayeb
Ng'ang'a, J.K.
Mungai, D.N.
The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, Vol. 5 (1998), Iss. 1 P.23
https://doi.org/10.1080/13892249885300141 [Citations: 6]Tabs navigation
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