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Technology Transfer Challenges

RUNNING HEADER: TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER CHALLENGES

TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER CHALLENGES
Victor Jimenez
University of Phoenix
Jessica Keyes, Course Facilitator
June, 2008


Abstract
This research paper explores the intricacies of technology, training and education as related to economic development. We will examine the usage of technology to generate economic development and growth and look at how technology can and has impacted our education, training and development both in Jamaica and the Caribbean region.

Introduction
Technology is a word with origins in the Greek word technologia (τεχνολογία), techno (τέχνη) "craft" and logia (λογία) "saying." It is a broad term dealing with the use and knowledge of humanity's tools and crafts.
Categorically speaking technology is the process by which humans modify nature and the environment to meet their needs and wants. Most people, however, think of technology in terms of its artifacts: computers and software, aircraft, pesticides, water-treatment plants, birth-control pills, and microwave ovens, to name a few. But it is more than these tangible products; it is the technical means people use to improve their surroundings.
In this the Knowledge Era the focus is usually on employment, industrial productivity, increased standard of living/enhanced lifestyle, etc. The following is an example of advances in technology within the Caribbean.

Technology transfer to the Caribbean
Technology transfer has traditionally involved the transfer of tools and methodologies developed in industrialized nations for use in poorer developing countries. It is important to recognize the differences between developing countries and industrialized nations because differences in social and economic conditions between the two types of countries may warrant alternative approaches both to analysis and to implementation of solutions.

The Product
In 2005, Americas Region Caribbean Optical-Ring System ("ARCOS") is an undersea...