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Access through your institution Buy or subscribe SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY: AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPING WORLD Edited by: * _V. V. Krishna & _ * _Roland

Waast_ Edited Sage. 2/yr. Rs395, £58, $88 (institutional); Rs225, £26, $38 (personal) But more than five decades of experience now demonstrate that there is no direct connection between the

R&D efforts of a counttry and its climb up the development ladder. The ‘Asian tigers’ — Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia — acquired their ‘newly industrialized’ status by largely

ignoring science and concentrating on manufacturing technology. And countries with highly developed research infrastructures, such as India, Egypt and Brazil, have achieved relatively little

in terms of economic development. It turns out that the relationship between science, technology and a developing society is much more complex than the linear model dominant in science

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AND AFFILIATIONS * Ziauddin Sardar, a consulting editor of Futures and visiting professor of science and technology policy at Middlesex University, is at 1 Orchard Gate, NW9 6HU, London, UK

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ARTICLE CITE THIS ARTICLE Sardar, Z. Development ladder. _Nature_ 389, 145–146 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1038/38207 Download citation * Issue Date: 11 September 1997 * DOI:

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