Although both the industrialised countries and the developing countries have an interest in the transfer of technology, there is a considerable amount of disagreement as to how the gains from the transfer should be apportioned. Professor Hoffmann offers a theoretical analysis of the mechanisms...

By now the need for a code of conduct for technology transfer has been accepted by all groups of countries represented at the UN. Both the proposals of the Group of 77 and the counterproposals of the Western Industrial countries were submitted in early December 1975 to the first session of the...

One of the crucial themes in the dialogue between North and South is the nature and volume of the transfer of technology from the industrialized to the developing world. In contrast to the demand of overcoming the “technology gap“ Prof. Baumer argues that the postulate should rather be...