Excerpt from Institutional Roles in Technology Transfer The rapid expansion of the world's store of scientific and technological knowledge presents the small nation with a particularly vexing problem in maintaining its scientific and technological communities abreast of foreign developments. To assure its survival and growth the small country must not only acquire foreign scientific and technological information, but it must also solve the more difficult problem of seeing that this information is disseminated to those points where it can be utilized. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.