Technology Transfer

Foreword

For more than a decade I served as the Director of the Alfred P. Sloan Fellows Program, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and have had the privilege of getting to know many outstanding participants. Most of the participants have come from the more developed regions of the world. Rarely has there been participation from the Caribbean. And rarely has there been a participant like Dr. Shastri Moonan of Trinidad and Tobago.

I interviewed Shastri Moonan for the Program in the Spring of 1988. I learned that he had studied law in the United Kingdom and had been admitted to practice as an attorney, and ascertained his success as a businessman and entrepreneur in his native country. I was interested in his motivation to attend the ...