The Governing Body also requested the Secretary to continue promoting initiatives to support national and regional programmes in the development and transfer of information technologies for, and data analysis of, plant genetic resources for food and agriculture, such as the Capfitogen Programme and the Platform for the Co-development and Transfer of Technologies.
The development and transfer of computing technology in postwar Czechoslovakia and Finland, two countries lying directly on the border between the two cold war blocs, were shaped by a mix of factors, from the political to the technological, in both countries.
The innovation milieu approaches look at success factors of small- and medium-sized enterprises, mechanisms through which certain localities give birth to a large number of small innovative firms and provide explanation how different localities have different patterns and paths in knowledge development and transfer of high technology.
Similarly, technology is no longer limited to the development and transfer of industrial technologies.
Also, in order to ensure effective adoption of improved technologies for natural resources management, the methodology and approach for development and transfer of such technologies must be participatory, as is done in the implementation of farmers' field schools.
This article is the first in a series that will spotlight trends, breakthroughs, cases and lessons on the development and transfer of sustainable technologies around the world.
"Most industries today want workers with analytical skills," says microbiologist Charles Decedue, executive director of the Higuchi Biosciences Center at the University of Kansas (KU), which is dedicated to the development and transfer of bioscience technologies.
The CDM can therefore be said to have made a considerable contribution to the development and transfer of knowledge and technology in developing countries, and positively impacted on local communities through the creation of jobs and infrastructure.
One of the important approaches to the development and transfer of appropriate tillage technology in Africa is the improvement of information dissemination systems among tillage research workers.
