The relationship between higher education and technology could be shown statistically as
well. The simple coefficient of correlation between the enrolment ratio in higher education
and TAI in the Asia and the Pacific countries is as high as 0.8, and that between technology
and higher education attainment is 0.65. Though the number of observations is small, the
simple regression equations estimated here show a very strong and statistically significant
effect of higher education on the level of achievement of technology