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Technology Transfer to Developing Countries: Lessons from Colombia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2009

Fernando Serpa-Flórez
Fernando Serpa-Flórez
Affiliation:
Universidad Nacional, Bogotá
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Abstract

Medical technology will contribute to improving the health status of people in developing countries only when it is carefully implemented after proper planning. Providers, users, health ministry employees, and industry all share responsibility for proper planning and careful implementation.

Type
Special Section: Industry and the Generation of Technology
Information
International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , Spring 1993 , pp. 233 - 237
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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