Page 17 (i) promote technical cooperation and the exchange of experience in the field of industrial technology and implement technical training programmes among Member States; (j) establish a regional data and statistical information base to support industrial development at the regional and continental levels; (k) promote, on the basis of natural resource endowments, industrial specialization in order to enhance complementarity and expand the intra-Community trade base; and (l) adopt common standards and appropriate quality control systems. Article 27 Science and Technology Member States shall: 10. (m) strengthen their national scientific and technological capabilities in order to bring about the socio economic transformation required to improve the quality of life of their population; (n) ensure the proper application of science and technology to the development of agriculture, transport and communications, industry, health and hygiene, energy, education and manpower and the conservation of the environment; (o) reduce their dependence on foreign technology and promote their individual and collective technological self-reliance; (p) cooperate in the development, acquisition and dissemination of appropriate technologies; and (q) strengthen existing scientific research institutions and take all necessary measures to prepare and implement joint scientific research and technological development programmes. In their cooperation in this field, Member States shall: (a) harmonize, at the Community level, their national policies on scientific and technological research with a view to facilitating their integration into the national economic and social development plans; (b) coordinate their programmes in applied research, research for development, scientific and technological services; (c) harmonize their national technological development plans by placing special emphasis on indigenous and adapted technologies as well as their regulations on industrial property and transfer of technology; (d) coordinate their positions on all scientific and technical questions forming the subject of international negotiations;