Cinq tendances de ces dernieres annees permettent d'evaluer le juste poids de ces efforts : - l'acceleration du processus d'innovation; - la proliferation, dans toutes les activites economiques et sociales, de nouvelles technologies soumises a un rythme d'evolution tres rapide (informatique, biotechnologie, materiaux); - l'acceleration de la mondalisation des activites
productives; - la montee des "activites immaterielles", qui se traduit par le developpment rapide des emplois
de services; - la poussee des programmes de defense, e
...[+++]t leurs consequences sur le systeme mondial de la recherche, de la science et de la technologie.
Five recent trends may help appreciate the scale of this effort: - the acceleration of the innovation process; - the proliferation in all economic and social activities of new technologies which are subject to an extremely high rate of evolution (informatics, biotechnology, materials); - the acceleration of the tendency of productive activities to be developed on a world wide scale; - the rise in the number of non-material activities, i.e; the rapid increase in jobs in the service sector; - the growth in defence programmes and their repercussions as regards the world system of research, science and technology.