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The Rôle of International Business in the Transfer of Technology to Developing Countries*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

Karl E. Lachmann*
Affiliation:
Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations

Abstract

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Second Session
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 1966

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Footnotes

*

While the writer is an official of the United Nations Secretariat, this paper constitutes a personal, not an official, presentation.

References

1 Res. 2102 (XX) of Dec. 20, 1965, on Consideration of Steps to be Taken for Progressive Development in the Field of Private International Law with a Particular View to Promoting International Trade.

2 See The Role of Patents in the Transfer of Technology to Developing Countries (TJ.N. Pub. No.: 65 I I . B . l ) , pars. 249-253.

3 See Jack Baranson, ‘ ‘ Transfer of Technical Knowledge by International Corporations to Developing Countries,” in Proceedings of the American Economic Association, 1965 (to be published), pp. 9 ff.

4 4 K. E. Lachmann, “The Role of Industrial Property in the Dissemination of Technical Information in the World Context: A United Nations View,” in Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Public Conference of the Patents, Trademarks and Copyright Research Institute, George Washington University, published in IDEA, Conference Number 1965, p. 184.

5 Address to the Economic Commission for Europe, April 27, 1965 (U.N. Doc. E/ ECE/577), p. 6.

6 The Role of Enterprise-to-Enterprise Arrangements in Supplying Financial, Managerial and Technological Needs of Industrial Enterprises in Developing Countries (U.N. Doc. E/4038, 1965), p. 8.

7 The Economist (London), Feb. 26, 1966, p. 828.

8 See Elliott Haynes’ paper on ‘ ‘ New Patterns for Private Investment in Developing Countries,'’ in International Development of 1965 (edited by Stefan H. Robock and Leo M. Solomon, New York, Oceana Publications, 1966), p. 104.

9 See The Sources of the Law of International Trade, with Special Eeference to East-West Trade (Clive A. Schmitthoff ed., New York, F. A. Praeger, 1964), Chap. 1.3, and especially Chap. 7, ‘ ‘ International Conventions and Standard Contracts as Means of Escaping from the Application of Municipal Law,” by Lazare Kopelmanas.