WilliamsMemo34

=Williams Memo 34 Comparative Positioning=

__**Memo 34: Comparative Positioning (how your book will be different than others on similar topics)**__
 * Identify two or three texts that your book is alongside (comparative positioning with other scholarly work)
 * For each include: the title, narrative about why it is exemplary/what was compelling about it

=SPEAK TO THE FIELD OF ECONOMICS OF WORLD DEVELOPMENT= Lall, Sanjaya. 2001. //The Economics of Technology Transfer//. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, December 21. [] Before his death in 2005, Dr. Lall had published extensively on the effects of Foreign Direct Investment as it relates to technology transfer to the developing world. This book is a collection of important essays on the economics of technology transfer to the developing world. In comparison, my book will offer a new theoretical framework, based partially on his work, that looks at the contributions of NGOs to bi-directional technology transfer in a bio-medical context.

=SPEAK TO A COMMUNITY OF SCHOLARS IN SOCIOLOGY (OR PUBLIC POLICY) & WORLD DEVELOPMENT= Lundvall, Bengt-Ake, K. J. Joseph, Cristina Chaminade, and Jan Vang. 2009. //Handbook on Innovation Systems and Developing Countries: Building Domestic Capabilities in a Global Context//. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, August 31. Lundvall has brought together a community of social scientists that meets annually for a conference called GLOBELICS: __Glob__al network for __E__conomics of __L__earning, __I__nnovation and __C__ompetence Building __S__ystems. Susan Cozzens has (co-authored with Raphael Kaplinsky) a chapter in this book called “Innovation, Poverty, and Inequality: Cause, Consequence, or Co-evolution?” My book discusses how the burden of preventable blindness causes a reduction in the production capability of a developing nation. It also focuses on how medical technology transfer, when performed in a way that is sensitive to local context, can be a method of building domestic medical capabilities for increased health and wealth of a nation - and increased availability of public health goods to the world.

=SPEAK TO A COMMUNITY OF SCHOLARS IN MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY= Timmermans, Stefan, and Marc Berg. 2003. //The Gold Standard: The Challenge of Evidence-based Medicine and Standardization in Health Care//. illustrated edition. Temple University Press,U.S., June 13. [] Stephan Timmermans is a professor of Sociology at University of California, Los Angeles. Marc Berg is a professor in Sociology of Medicine at the Erasmus Medical Center in the Netherlands. Their book is about how new standards in patient records, insurance processes, and clinical trials, etc, have changed the ways that hospitals, medical staff, and the doctor-patient relationship work. This is in comparison to my book which will discuss how the development of appropriate medical technology for transfer from industrialized nations to developing nations changes the medical practice on both sides of the pond.