The analysis of past trends and the current critical situation underscore the need to reorient internal efforts and external aid in Science and Technology towards new goals: the ultimate goal of establishing a national capacity for technological development that turns the classic technical vicious circles into vicious spirals, and reduce technology dependence to the "tolerable" dimension of technology gaps. To achieve this ambitious goal, internal and external efforts should be carried out jointly. We argue that developed countries are creating a new economic order, while maintaining the old technological order. The new economic order seems to facilitate the industrialization of the less developed countries but we believe that it will not contribute to their "technologicalization".
Keywords:
Developed Countries, Least Developed Countries, Science and Technology, New Technological Order, Technical Underdevelopment
Author Biography
Máximo Halty Carrere
Uruguayo; ex director adjunto de los programas de la OEA en ciencia y tecnología. Director de un programa de alcance interregional del International Research and Development Center de Canada. Consultor de CEPAL y de otros organismos internacionales.
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