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Book Comparisons Between Member Countries in Education  Research   Development  Technological Innovation  International Economic Exchange

Download or read book Comparisons Between Member Countries in Education Research Development Technological Innovation International Economic Exchange written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Political History of Big Science

Download or read book A Political History of Big Science written by Katharina C. Cramer and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-08-31 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the political history of Big Science in Europe in the late twentieth century and the early twenty-first century, characterised by the founding histories of two collaborative, single-sited facilities namely the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble, France and the European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser (European XFEL) in Schenefeld, Germany. Under the heading of the other Europe, this book presents the history and politics of European Big Science as an alternative road to (Western) European integration besides the mainstream political integration process of the European Economic Community and the European Union. It shows that Big Science has a role to play in European politics and policymaking and that the crucial and unavoidable symbiosis between science, technology and politics brings the creation of Big Science projects back to geopolitical realities.

Book Innovation  Economic Change and Technology Policies

Download or read book Innovation Economic Change and Technology Policies written by STROETMANN and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technological progress is a major factor chaping economic growth. Today's standard of living is a direct result of scientific advances and technical change in the past. Since uncontrolled technological progress has become amenace to our well being and may actually threat our survival, it is necessary to learn to manage technological progress and direct innovative activities in such a manner that both private wants and social needs playa dominant role in determining the rate and direction of technical change. This requires a better understanding of the processes of technical change, of their impact on and interrelationships with economic and social developments and of the means and measures by which both individuals and governments can influence and direct technological progress. To this end, the Ninistry for Research and Technology of the Federal Republ ic of Germany and the National Science Foundation of the Uni ted States of America invited a group of scholars, corporate managers and civil servants to a one week seminar on "Technolo gical Innovation". The seminar took place in April, 1976, in Bonn, Federal Republ ic of Germany. Most papers presented at this meeting were specifically prepared for the seminar. With this volume, they are made available to a larger audience to further stimulate discussion not only among scholars interested in innovation research and technology policy questions but also among managers, union officials, civil ser vants and others directly or indirectly concerned with and affected by technical change.

Book The Idea of Technological Innovation

Download or read book The Idea of Technological Innovation written by Benoît Godin and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-24 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely book explores technological innovation as a concept, dissecting its emergence, development and use. Benoît Godin offers an exciting new historiography of the subject, arguing that the study of innovation originates not from scholars but from practitioners of innovation.

Book The Invention of Technological Innovation

Download or read book The Invention of Technological Innovation written by Benoît Godin and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Arial} This timely book provides an intellectual and conceptual history of a key representation of innovation: technological innovation. Tracing the history of the discourses of scholars, practitioners and policy-makers, and exploring how and why innovation became defined as technological, Benoît Godin studies the emergence of the term, its meaning, and its transformation and use over time.

Book Models of Innovation

Download or read book Models of Innovation written by Benoit Godin and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2017-02-24 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benoît Godin is a Professor at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Montreal. Models abound in science, technology, and society (STS) studies and in science, technology, and innovation (STI) studies. They are continually being invented, with one author developing many versions of the same model over time. At the same time, models are regularly criticized. Such is the case with the most influential model in STS-STI: the linear model of innovation. In this book, Benoît Godin examines the emergence and diffusion of the three most important conceptual models of innovation from the early twentieth century to the late 1980s: stage models, linear models, and holistic models. Godin first traces the history of the models of innovation constructed during this period, considering why these particular models came into being and what use was made of them. He then rethinks and debunks the historical narratives of models developed by theorists of innovation. Godin documents a greater diversity of thinkers and schools than in the conventional account, tracing a genealogy of models beginning with anthropologists, industrialists, and practitioners in the first half of the twentieth century to their later formalization in STS-STI. Godin suggests that a model is a conceptualization, which could be narrative, or a set of conceptualizations, or a paradigmatic perspective, often in pictorial form and reduced discursively to a simplified representation of reality. Why are so many things called models? Godin claims that model has a rhetorical function. First, a model is a symbol of “scientificity.” Second, a model travels easily among scholars and policy makers. Calling a conceptualization or narrative or perspective a model facilitates its propagation.

Book Transnational Corporations  Technology Transfer and Development

Download or read book Transnational Corporations Technology Transfer and Development written by Tagi Sagafi-nejad and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2014-06-28 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transnational Corporations, Technology Transfer and Development: A Bibliographic Sourcebook compiles references one can use in studying transnational corporations and related topics. The compilation divides various source materials into eight major themes. The sourcebook presents publications on the development of science and technology; the International Technology Gap and the NIEO; and transnational corporations and technology. The other groups of publications compiled mainly focus on the anatomy of corporate technology transfer; technology transfer and host countries; and sectoral analysis, wherein several case studies are included. The last two sets of reference materials are concerned with technology transfer and the home country and its regulation. This sourcebook will be invaluable to those in need of lists of reference materials on transnational corporations.

Book Transnational Corporations and International Production

Download or read book Transnational Corporations and International Production written by Grazia Ietto-Gillies and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoroughly updated and substantially extended, this internationally successful text explores transnational corporations (TNCs), their activities and effects, as well as the theories developed to explain them. Invaluable for courses as well as researchers in international business, international economics, globalization, international relations, economic geography and history of economic thought on the TNCs.

Book The Global Politics of Science and Technology   Vol  2

Download or read book The Global Politics of Science and Technology Vol 2 written by Maximilian Mayer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-08-20 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An increasing number of scholars have begun to see science and technology as relevant issues in International Relations (IR), acknowledging the impact of material elements, technical instruments, and scientific practices on international security, statehood, and global governance. This two-volume collection brings the debate about science and technology to the center of International Relations. It shows how integrating science and technology translates into novel analytical frameworks, conceptual approaches and empirical puzzles, and thereby offers a state-of-the-art review of various methodological and theoretical ways in which sciences and technologies matter for the study of international affairs and world politics. The authors not only offer a set of practical examples of research frameworks for experts and students alike, but also propose a conceptual space for interdisciplinary learning in order to improve our understanding of the global politics of science and technology. The second volume raises a plethora of issue areas, actors, and cases under the umbrella notion techno-politics. Distinguishing between interactional and co-productive perspectives, it outlines a toolbox of analytical frameworks that transcend technological determinism and social constructivism.

Book Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics

Download or read book Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Directory of OECD Intergovernmental Bodies 2007 Mandates  Chairs  Membership

Download or read book Directory of OECD Intergovernmental Bodies 2007 Mandates Chairs Membership written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2007-04-26 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This directory is a guide to country participation in the various committees and working groups of the OECD, the IEA, and the NEA for the year 2007.

Book Measurement and Statistics on Science and Technology

Download or read book Measurement and Statistics on Science and Technology written by Benoit Godin and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an historical examination of official science and technology statistics and indicators in Western countries.

Book Directory of OECD Intergovernmental Bodies 2006 Mandates  Chairs  Membership

Download or read book Directory of OECD Intergovernmental Bodies 2006 Mandates Chairs Membership written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2006-05-30 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This directory is a guide to country participation in the various committees and working groups of the OECD, the IEA, and the NEA for the year 2006.

Book Small States in World Markets

Download or read book Small States in World Markets written by Peter J. Katzenstein and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the early 1980s the average American had a lower standard of living than the average Norwegian or Dane. Standards of living in the Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, Switzerland, and Austria also rivaled those in the United States. How have seven small democracies achieved economic success and what can they teach America?In Small States in World Markets, Peter Katzenstein examines the successes of these economically vulnerable nations of Western Europe, showing that they have managed to stay economically competitive while at the same time preserving their political institutions. Too dependent on world trade to impose protection, and lacking the resources to transform their domestic industries, they have found a third solution. Their rapid and flexible response to market opportunity stems from what Katzenstein calls "democratic corporatism," a mixture of ideological consensus, centralized politics, and complex bargains among politicians, merest groups, and bureaucrats.Democratic corporatism is the solution these nations have developed in response to the economic crises of the 1930s and 1940s, the liberal international economy established after World War II, and the volatile markets of more recent years. Katzenstein maintains that democratic corporatism is an effective way of coping with a rapidly changing world, a more effective way than the United States and several other large industrial countries have yet managed to discover.

Book Directory of Bodies of the OECD 2012

Download or read book Directory of Bodies of the OECD 2012 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09-27 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This directory provides official information on the mandates, dates of creation and durations of current mandates, membership and chairmanship of the OECD Council and its related committees, sub-committees, working groups and ad hoc groups.

Book Marketing Strategy and Management

Download or read book Marketing Strategy and Management written by Michael J. Baker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifth edition of Marketing Strategy and Management builds upon Michael Baker's reputation for academic rigor. It retains the traditional, functional (4Ps) approach to marketing but incorporates current research, topical examples and case studies, encouraging students to apply theoretical principles and frameworks to real-world situations.