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Book OECD Science  Technology and Industry Scoreboard 1999 Benchmarking Knowledge based Economies

Download or read book OECD Science Technology and Industry Scoreboard 1999 Benchmarking Knowledge based Economies written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 1999-10-05 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents indicators comparing the performance of science and technology in OECD economies.

Book Innovation Management In The Knowledge Economy

Download or read book Innovation Management In The Knowledge Economy written by Ben Dankbaar and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2003-08-05 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an overview of recent, predominantly European, thinking on the issues and challenges for innovation management in the modern, knowledge-based economy. The topic is explored in four directions: the growing importance of services and of innovation in services; the growing interest in competence-based approaches of strategy and innovation; the role of technology in innovation processes; and the increasing importance of knowledge management in innovation management. Each direction is briefly introduced by the editor. The contributions come from universities and management schools in Germany, Italy, France, the United Kingdom, Belgium, The Netherlands and the United States.

Book OECD Economic Surveys  Finland 2000

Download or read book OECD Economic Surveys Finland 2000 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2000-07-26 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2000 edition of OECD's periodic reviews of Finland's economy includes special features on structural reforms and on the ageing population.

Book OECD Economic Surveys  Canada 2000

Download or read book OECD Economic Surveys Canada 2000 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2000-08-30 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2000 edition of OECD's periodic survey of Canada's economy. This edition includes chapters on economic performance, macroeconomic policy, structural issues and policy, and making growth more environmentally sustainable.

Book Embracing the Knowledge Economy

Download or read book Embracing the Knowledge Economy written by Gerd Schienstock and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an astonishingly short period of time, Finland has developed into one of the world's leading knowledge societies whilst retaining a comprehensive welfare state. The book traces this rapid transformation from a resource-based to a knowledge-based society. The authors describe the country's strengths and weaknesses in the new economy and demonstrate how Finland has been able to catch-up with the leading industrial countries by exploiting new techno-organizational opportunities. Experts from different fields provide rich empirical material on Finnish industries, firms, regions and institutions, and the role they have played in the transformation process. The book also details the business and economic restructuring which was required, and explores new trends in the country's science, technology and innovation policy.

Book Measuring Innovation in OECD and Non OECD Countries

Download or read book Measuring Innovation in OECD and Non OECD Countries written by William Blankley and published by HSRC Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is widely accepted that innovation is key to economic growth. Countries where research and innovation are high on the national agenda are best suited to prosper in the knowledge-based economy. Conversely, countries whose economies are mainly dependent on natural resources and basic industries tend to lack competitiveness and flexibility in adapting to changing global trends. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has long been concerned with the measurement of research and experimental development (R&D) and innovation activities. Under apartheid rule South Africa was barred from participating in OECD activities. Shortly after the advent of democracy in South Africa in 1994 the then Department of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology (now the Department of Science and Technology) initiated the process of applying for observer status on the OECD Committee for Scientific and Technological Policy. South Africa gained observer status in 1998. In March 2001, the Department and the OECD jointly hosted an international seminar in Pretoria on the measurement of innovation activities in OECD and non-OECD countries. This book is a collection of selected papers that were presented at the seminar by leading international and South African experts in innovation measurement. The chapters reflect various aspects of the measurement of innovation and how these measurements are applied in different countries. The volume contributes to the debate that exists between developing and developed countries on their approaches to the measurement of innovation.

Book Science and Engineering Indicators  2 Vol

Download or read book Science and Engineering Indicators 2 Vol written by John R. Gawalt and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 1164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a broad base of quantitative info. about U.S. science, engin., and technology. Because of the spread of scientific and tech. capabilities around the world, this report presents a significant amount of material about these internat. capabilities and analyzes the U.S. position in this broader context. Contains quantitative analyses of key aspects of the scope, quality, and vitality of the Nation¿s science and engineering (S&E) enterprise. It presents info. on science, math, and engineering. educ. at all levels; the S&E workforce; U.S. internat. R&D perform. and competitiveness in high tech.; and public attitudes and understanding of S&E. Also info. on state-level S&E indicators. Presents the key themes emerging from these analyses. Illus.

Book Governing Globalization

Download or read book Governing Globalization written by Deepak Nayyar and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is now more than fifty years since the United Nations system and the Bretton Woods institutions were created. The world has changed since then, and so have its governance needs in terms of institutions and rules. It is time to think about the contours of institutions and governance that would meet the needs of the world economy, and also polity, at least for the first quarter of the twenty-first century. This book is the first to examine the subject in depth.

Book OECD Economic Surveys  Mexico 2000

Download or read book OECD Economic Surveys Mexico 2000 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2000-07-10 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2000 edition of OECD's periodic review of Mexico's economy includes special features on public spending and structural reform.

Book Technology Transfer via Foreign Direct Investment in Central and Eastern Europe

Download or read book Technology Transfer via Foreign Direct Investment in Central and Eastern Europe written by J. Stephan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-11-28 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreign subsidiaries of multinational companies are suggested as one of the main channels of technology transfer to less developed economies. In Central East Europe their presence proved to be a decisive factor to economic restructuring and development. This volume is a unique guide to theory, method of research, and empirical evidence, for technology transfer via foreign subsidiaries of multinational companies. It combines the merits of a core text on technology transfer via FDI with up-to-date empirical evidence.

Book Interactive Learning for Innovation

Download or read book Interactive Learning for Innovation written by B. Asheim and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-12-15 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume highlights the importance of interactive, practice-based learning as a means to promote more thorough innovation dynamics in regional and national economies. Successful experiences in Scandanavia and southern European countries are examined, with insightful policy lessons extracted from each case.

Book The Oxford Handbook of Innovation

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Innovation written by Jan Fagerberg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-19 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook provides academics and students with a comprehensive and holistic understanding of the phenomenon of innovation.

Book Nanotechnology and Microelectronics  Global Diffusion  Economics and Policy

Download or read book Nanotechnology and Microelectronics Global Diffusion Economics and Policy written by Ekekwe, Ndubuisi and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2010-06-30 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book assesses the state of nanotechnology and microelectronics, and examines many issues, such as climate change, trade, innovation, diffusion, etc, with a theme focused on facilitating the structures for the adoption and penetration of the technologies into developing nations"--Provided by publisher.

Book Knowledge Intensive Entrepreneurship and Innovation Systems

Download or read book Knowledge Intensive Entrepreneurship and Innovation Systems written by Franco Malerba and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-04-05 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book examines the main dimensions of knowledge intensive entrepreneurship, the factors affecting its emergence, evolution and performance and the importance of knowledge intensive entrepreneurship for European growth and competitiveness.

Book The Economic and Social Dynamics of Biotechnology

Download or read book The Economic and Social Dynamics of Biotechnology written by John de la Mothe and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `Biotechnology' - the integrated use of biochemistry, microbiology, and chemical engineering for the technological application of the capabilities of microbes and cultured tissue cells - is quickly becoming pervasive and challenging, rapidly developing both new techniques and industries. The Economic and Social Dynamics of Biotechnology - a joint project between Statistics Canada, the Program of Research on Innovation, Management and Economy (PRIME) at the University of Ottawa, and CIRANO at the University of Quebec in Montreal - brings together economic, social, and statistical views on the dynamics of this set of emerging technologies. It examines the costs as well as the benefits - the challenges as well as the choices - of the rapidly expanding science-based world of biodiversity, biopharmaceuticals, and bioinformatics, and it provides suggestions for future work and research. This project fits into an ongoing research program at Statistics Canada to develop meaningful indicators for science, technology, and innovation in a technology-intensive economy. This book tells the story of the inner workings of innovation systems, technological systems, and competence blocs in the production, use, and diffusion of knowledge.

Book Knowledge Flows in European Industry

Download or read book Knowledge Flows in European Industry written by Yannis Caloghirou and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-04-12 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The channels and mechanisms of knowledge flows define the links that make up production and innovation systems. As such, they relate directly or indirectly to all policies that affect such systems. Knowledge flows are also directly related to intellectual property protection policies and competition policies that create the infrastructure supporting various forms of formal interaction among economic agents in production and innovation systems. Knowledge Flows in European Industry presents the results of an extensive research programme funded by the European Commission to empirically appraise the dissemination of knowledge relevant to the innovative activities of European manufacturing and service sectors. It explores the extent, density, and mechanism of innovation-related knowledge flows affecting the innovative capacity of European industry and the mechanisms that support such flows, as well as examining incentives to access and transmit results and the determinants of knowledge transmission. Featuring contributions from leading international scholars including Anthony Arundel and Bent Dalum, this interdisciplinary volume focuses on questions of interest to regional, national, and pan-European science, technology and innovation policy, and will be an important read for those involved in business and management as well as those in the field of economics.