Should developing countries adapt existing biotechnology products and techniques or develop their own?
Participants were divided on the subject of whether developing countries should, or would need to, develop their own biotechnology products or techniques or, alternatively, whether they should rely on adapting the research results from industrialised countries. For example, Nwalozie (31, 47) and Morris (37) felt developing countries should be pro-active about biotechnology development, both referring specifically to their continent, Africa, with Nwalozie (47) maintaining “developing countries should not just adapt biotechnologies developed in other countries. These technologies should be developed in the developing countries or in the sub-region of the developing country!”. Kershen (41) supported this stance, maintaining that Africa must invest in biotechnology if it is “to have any future hope of gaining independence from aid, food security, and health security”. Nassar (49) disagreed, saying “why should we developing countries spend hundreds of millions of dollars on research that ca
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