Third World countries should exploit the genetic information stored in their flora and fauna to develop independent and highly competitive biotechnological and pharmaceutical industries. The necessary condition for this policy to succeed is the reshaping of their universities and hospitals-to turn them into high-caliber research institutions dedicated to the creation of original knowledge and biomedical invention. Part of the service of the Third World foreign debt should be co-invested with the lending banks in high technology enterprises. This should be complemented with an active program of investments in First World biotech companies and university research departments which could contribute to the solving of problems connected with the First World. These strategic alliances would allow effective training of molecular biologists, improvement of South American universities, and education of biotechnologists, managers, and lawyers in the complexities of high-technology business. The establishment of real joint ventures between developed and underdeveloped countries might contribute to change the present strained relations between the North and the South, and science and technology could become real forces of social and economic development. © 1989 Taylor & Francis.
Documento: | Artículo |
Título: | A biotechnological agenda for the third world |
Autor: | Goldstein, D.J. |
Filiación: | Career investigator, CONICET Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Ciudad Universitaria, Pabellón B, Nunez, 1428 Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Palabras clave: | foreign debt; Genetic information; international organizations; joint ventures; molecular biology; research hospitals; agroindustry; biotechnology; pharmaceutical industry; research; technology; Latin AmericaPB - Kluwer Academic Publishers |
Año: | 1988 |
Volumen: | 2 |
Número: | 1 |
Página de inicio: | 37 |
Página de fin: | 51 |
DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01831547 |
Título revista: | Journal of Agricultural Ethics |
Título revista abreviado: | Journal of Agricultural Ethics |
ISSN: | 08934282 |
Registro: | https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_08934282_v2_n1_p37_Goldstein |