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Information resources and technology transfer management in developing countries / Richard Ouma-Onyango.
LIBRA HC865.Z9 T46 1997
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ouma-Onyango, Richard, 1955-
- Series:
- Routledge studies in information and library management systems ; 2.
- Routledge studies in information and library management systems ; 2
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Technology transfer--Economic aspects--Kenya.
- Technology transfer.
- Economic development projects--Kenya.
- Economic development projects.
- Technology transfer--Economic aspects--Developing countries.
- Technology transfer--Economic aspects.
- Information resources management.
- Developing countries.
- Developing countries--Economic policy.
- Economic policy.
- Information resources management--Developing countries.
- Kenya.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 212 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.
- Contents:
- Part I Reconceptualizing development
- 1 The Framework for Development 5
- The conceptualization problem 5
- The conceptual shifts 6
- Conceptual rediagnosis 7
- The framework for reconceptualization 8
- Conceptualizing the process 10
- 2 The Cost of Misconceptions 14
- Flawed prescriptions for development 14
- The crisis of institutions 15
- Putting the Pacific Rim in context 18
- 3 Self-Reliance and Information Management 23
- Redefining dependency 23
- Self-reliance, information management and institutional capacity 25
- The case for reconceptualizing development studies 28
- 4 An Information Management-Based Approach to Technology Transfer 34
- Changes in the international scene 34
- Information and economics 36
- Information and organizations 38
- Information and development 40
- Information and technology 42
- Information and technology transfer 44
- 5 Using the Conceptual Framework of Information Science 51
- The information science framework 51
- National information management and capacity development 53
- Indigenous technological capability and information management 55
- Knowledge dependency and technology management 56
- Redefining technology and the transfer process 59
- Information, institutions and technology transfer 61
- Part II Strategic national information management
- 6 Research Methodology Considerations 71
- Focus of research 72
- The assumptions 73
- Objectives of the study 74
- Research methodology 74
- Criteria for case selection 75
- The National Power Alcohol Programme 76
- The National Car Project 77
- Limitations of the research 77
- 7 The Kenyan National Power Alcohol Programme 80
- Preamble 80
- The ethanol technology process 82
- Kenya's power alcohol scene 83
- The choice of molasses as feedstock 86
- Government presence and the transfer of lessons and capability 88
- The cost of regionalism 90
- Documentation, institutional learning and memory 93
- Decisions on implementation of the power alcohol programme 95
- Decisions on the gasohol niche 100
- National institutions and ethanol project management 102
- The management contracts 106
- Information, decisions and controversies over feedstock 107
- Information, decisions and the gasohol blending controversy 111
- The consequences of institutional weaknesses 112
- 8 The Kenyan National Car Project, 1984-1990 121
- Preamble 121
- Evolution of the project 122
- Information, decisions and the chronology of developments 126
- Information, decisions and institutional project management 129
- The National Car Project's contribution to national car research capacity 131
- Terrain realities about a car 133
- The realities of Kenya's motor industry scene 136
- The local components sector and the national car 141
- 9 Parallel Activities Important to the National Car Project 154
- Parallel African activities 155
- The parallel global picture 162
- Terrain management and the national car 166
- Part III Policy implications and tactics for change
- 10 Institutional Reorientation and Attitude Changes 180
- 11 Issues of Terrain Transparency 191
- 12 Tactics for Change 197
- Existing realities 198
- Some candidate issues 199.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 041509156X
- OCLC:
- 36461654
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