Table of Contents

Introduction: Science, Technology and Society Studies and Development Perspectives in South-North Transactions.- Is Modern Science an Ethno-science? Rethinking Epistemological Assumptions.- The Rhetoric of Progress: Crisis Avoidance in Science and Technology Policy for Development Discourse.- French Ethnocentricity. The “Epistemological Circumstances” of the Third World Concept.- Science and French Colonial Policy. Creation of the ORSTOM: from the Popular Front to the Liberation via Vichy, 1936–1943.- Science for the South/Science for the North. The Great Divide? ORSTOM versus CNRS.- Research and Policy for Development in the Netherlands: A Radical Turn to the South?.- Information Aid and Forms of Belgian Post Colonial Science.- Value Structures in International Development Research Management: The Case of a Canadian R&D Funding Agency.- Science for the South in the South. Exploring theRole of Local Leadership as a Catalyst of Scientific Development.- Prometheus and Hermes.- Entrepreneurial Science in Mexico as a Development Strategy. The Decline of Import Substitution Policy and the Rise of Academic-Industry Relations.- Science, Technology and Counter Hegemony: Some Reflections on the Contemporary Science Movements in India.

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