Package Deals
A study of technology development and transfer
This is a detailed case history of the development and transfer of a new intermediate-scale technology for egg packing in Zambia. The successes and failures provide many lessons for all concerned with technology transfer.
Published: 1983
Pages: 144
eBook: 9781780445618
Paperback: 9780903031868
INTRODUCTION vii | |||
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PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xii | |||
CHAPTER l A PROLOGUE: Attitudes and Prejudices | |||
towards Technology and Economic | |||
Development since 1945 1 | |||
PART I DEVELOPMENT OF A TECHNOLOGY 9 | |||
CHAPTER 2 Need for an Egg-tray Technology 10 | |||
CHAPTER 3 The Search for an Appropriate | |||
Technology I: Development of PPPU | |||
(1969-1976) 15 | |||
CHAPTER 4 The Search for an Appropriate | |||
Technology II: Development of the | |||
Redesigned PPMS (1976-1978) 34 | |||
CHAPTER 5 Implications for the Development of | |||
Intermediate Technologies 46 | |||
PART II APPLICATION OF A TECHNOLOGY 65 | |||
CHAPTER 6 PPMS Technology in Use: Empirical | |||
Studies 66 | |||
CHAPTER 7 Socio-economic Implications of PPMS 102 | |||
CHAPTER 8 Aspects of Technology Transfer 113 | |||
PART III POSTCRIPT 125 | |||
CHAPTER 9 PPMS - An Appropriate Technology? 126 | |||
REFERENCES 131 |