31. Developing countries generally were pushing for unrestricted access, while industrialized countries wanted to make sure there were legitimate reasons for such technology transfers. 32. Exporters often hire private security guards to assist in the performance of their duties to prevent technology transfers, and these private guards have also reported security lapses. 33. Few universities in the United States have had more success on that score than MIT, where the practice known as technology transfer has been elevated to a science. 34. Gingrich selected Cox to investigate American technology transfers to China after allegations surfaced that the Chinese had made campaign contributions to the Clinton administration. 35. He also renewed offers to work with the Clinton administration on curbing Russian nuclear technology transfers to Iran. 36. He was referring to allegations that U.S. technology transfers approved by Clinton may have helped the Chinese improve missile guidance systems. 37. However, the Pentagon has been investigating whether there was a technology transfer. 38. In separate interviews, Croft and Adrion stressed that there were no university policies governing technology transfer of software, effectively leaving them on their own. 39. In place of the handouts-as-usual, they would substitute market access, foreign debt concessions and technology transfers. 40. Indonesia, also acting partly in response to a perceived lack of technology transfer by the Japanese, recently decided to start its own national car project. |