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Zilinskas is a consultant and Carl Gustaf Lundin an environmental specialist in the Land, Water and Natural Habitats Division of the World Bank's Environment Department. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Zilinskas, Rkaymonid A. Marine biotechnology and developinig countries / Raymond A. Zilinskas, Carl G. Lundin. p. cni. -- (World Bank discussion papers; 210) Incltudes bibliographical referenices. ISBN U-X2]3-2590-6 1. Marine biotechnology-Developing countries. 1. Lundin, Carl G., 1964- . 11. Title. IIl. Series. TP248.27.M37Z55 1993 333.95'2'(0)91724-dc2U 93-26137 CIP Foreword Nobel Laureate Abdus Salam has named this report, capability-buildingin biotechnolo- the twenty-first century, "The Biological gy is a complex, expensive and long-term Age." What he is alluding to, I believe, is effort that requires sustained funding until that the current evolution in biotechnology both the scientific base and the industry are will reach an even more exciting stage in the established.Governments must also promote next twenty years or so, profoundlyaffecting conditions supportive to the biotechnology the wellbeing of individuals and the econo- industry, such as cooperative R&D ventures mies of nations. Eventually, biotechnology between research facilities and the private will influence in some way virtually all of sector to transform research findings into mankind'sproductiveactivities-whetherthey commercial products or processes. This be agriculture,health delivery, environmental cooperationand support is crucial in biotech- remediation, industry or energy production. nology both (I) because of the inherentrela- It is important then to approach biotechnolo- tionship between discovery and application gy cautiously by planning wisely, acting (for example, when a particular genetic deliberately, and monitoring applications process is discovered, it introducesa process closely over the long term to ensure that of interest to industry at the same time); and these influences are constructive,benefitting (2) because of the need for continuedscienti- both mankind and the environment. fic involvementin the industrialdevelopment "The BiologicalAge" can alsobe expected of that process (a situationquite unlike that of to benefit more than just the rich, industrial other technologies, regardless of how com- countries. Professor Salam and many others plex they are). have shown clearly that biotechnology is For example, a country can set up an particularly appropriate for the developing automobileindustry by importing the exper- world. There are several reasons for this tise and technologies necessary to do so. favorable assessment: (1) many developing Setting up and operating the automobile countries are in the semi-tropicaland tropical operation, as complex as it is, can be done climatesthat produce rich and diverse biolog- without involving research scientists in the ical resources,the substrate for biotechnology effort. Not so with biotechnology. Because and for sustainable economic development; the biotechnologyindustry involves the ma- (2) most developingcountries have sufficient nipulation of living and therefore dynamic grounding in the biological sciences and biological systems to achieve products or technologiesthat underliebiotechnology to be