Comparison of Approaches to National Automation: Iran and The Netherlands

摘要

Abstract.Two styles of approach to national automation are discussed. Iran represents the approach labeled ‘centralistic’ and the Netherlands represents the ‘federalistic’ approach. There are obviously numerous compromises between these two extremes. None is necessarily inherently superior to any other; which one is adopted will generally depend upon local circumstances‐ funding patterns, national attitudes rooted in history, geographic factors and the development history of the blood‐banki