Afternoon Session-The Transfer of Technology Through Enterprise-To-Enterprise Arrangements Chairman: Professor Hollis B. Chenery Department of Economics, Harvard University, 119 To examine and forecast the impact of technology upon the patterns and conduct of international trade and investment To consider the international environment needed for the wider generation and utilization of technology To explore prospects for evolving policies and institutions that promote economic development through technology and trade November 16, 1966 INTRODUCTION Mr. Stern: Mr. Secretary, Honored Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen: Good morning to you on this brisk fall day. ROBERT L. STERN Program Chairman Chief, Office of Industrial Services National Bureau of Standards The ship "Technology" is about to set off on a round-the-world cruise. Our adventure and exploration during the next two days takes the form of a symposium which, to recall the definition of the Greeks, means: a feast, a gathering together with free exchange of ideas, a drinking together. Each aspect of this definition will have its place in these proceedings. Now, to get under way, and to introduce the Sponsor of the Symposium and later the Chairman of this morning's session, I would like to present Dr. J. Herbert Hollomon, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Science and Technology. Dr. Hollomon: Honored guests, friends from Washington, New York, Delhi, Madrid, Ottawa, Paris, and Manila and a dozen other world capitals, welcome! One of every six or seven of us is a visitor to the United States. At least 25 nations are represented here. No matter where you came from, technology helped bring you here. Many of you used jet airplanes. All of us used automobiles or buses. Trans portation technology contributed to bringing us here, I hope quickly, comfortably and safely. We are meeting in facilities built with a great deal of technology and we are using the products of tech nology to hear and see and record our findings. The specific occasion which brings us together is the ded ication of this magnificent new facility. We are als commemorating the sixty-fifth anniversary of thi great scientific and technological institution-the National Bureau of Standards, an agency of the United States Department of Commerce. We all owe a debt to technology. We can partially repay that obligation by making our two-day discus sion effective, pointed, stimulating, and helpful t one another. We planned this symposium so that you will hav ample opportunity at each session for question from the floor. We are also providing two luncheo sessions and a banquet and at that banquet th Vice-President of the United States will speak to us We hope that will encourage you to recognize tha this is a symposium of people talking together, rathe than a few of us talking to all of you. We believe that technology, appropriately under stood, morally and ethically applied, is the best hop for a peaceful, prosperous society. Technology doe not automatically flow to where it is needed. It necessary that men spend their wills and their hear to bring technology to people in a way that will co tribute to their progress, their health, and their wel being. For the opening remarks on these subjects, we a privileged to hear the Sponsor of this conferenc the distinguished Secretary of Commerce of th United States, the Honorable John T. Connor. J. HERBERT HOLLOMON became Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Science and Technology in May 1962, having been nominated by President Kennedy and confirmed by the Senate. In this position he supervises the Patent Office; the National Bureau of Standards; the Environmental Science Services Administration; and the Office of State Technical Services. He also is the principal advisor on scientific and technical matters to the Secretary of Commerce, and he is a member of the Federal Council for Science and Technology, consultant to the President's Science Advisory Committee, and Chairman of the Interdepartmental Committee for Atmospheric Sciences. Dr. Hollomon was with the General Electric Company for 18 years, as metallurgical researcher, Manager of Metallurgy and Ceramics Research, and General Manager of the General Engineering Laboratory. JOHN T. CONNOR was nominated Secretary of Commerce by President Johnson on January 6, 1965, and confirmed by the U.S. Senate on January 15. He assumed his cabinet post after a career of law, government and industry, which spanned a quarter of a century since his graduation from Harvard Law School in 1939. He is a graduate of Holy Rosary High School in Syracuse, New York; of Syracuse University where he received his A.B. degree, magna cum laude; and Harvard Law School where he received an LL.B. degree in 1939. Mr. Connor then was associated for several years with the New York City law firm of Cravath, de Gersdorff, Swaine and Wood. In 1942, Secretary Connor was appointed General Counsel of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, of which Dr. Vannevar Bush was Director. In 1944, he went on active duty with the U.S. Marine Corps, serving in the Pacific as an air combat intelligence officer. Returning from Japan in 1945, he became Counsel to the new Office of Naval Research, and later, Special Assistant to Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal. Mr. Connor joined Merck & Co., Inc., in 1947 as general attorney and held several other key executive positions before being elected president of the company on September 27, 1955. In February 1967, Mr. Connor returned to private industry and became President of the Allied Chemical Corporation. |