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Technology, competitiveness, and the state
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ISBN: 0429228678 1134642083 1280330996 9786610330997 0203031172 0203171632 9780203171639 9780203031179 9780415197656 0415197651 6610330999 9781134642083 9781134642038 9781134642076 1134642075 Year: 1999 Publisher: London New York Routledge

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This volume, and its companion, Industrial Technology Development in Malaysia, examine and evaluate Malaysian industrialization in terms of its experience of and prospects for industrial technology development. The focus is on role played by state-sponsored innovation in the process economic development and in the context of national development strategies. Technology, Competitiveness and the State, provides a valuable analysis of the technological development of a Newly Industrializing Country and reflects on whether existing development strategies can be maintained in the w


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Boosting Innovation : The Cluster Approach
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ISBN: 9264170804 9786610034130 1280034130 9264174397 Year: 1999 Publisher: Paris : OECD Publishing,

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 Both firms, keen to improve their competitiveness, and governments, keen to exploit new sources of economic and social progress, need to understand how innovation works in order to better stimulate it. The paradox of innovation is that it uses co-operation to enhance competition and to link many different actors in innovative clusters. In a knowledge-based economy, these clusters of innovative firms form around sources of knowledge. They are based on a sophisticated infrastructure in which knowledge is developed, shared and exchanged, and are characterised by highly concentrated and effective links between entrepreneurs, investors and researchers. Clusters can take a variety of forms, depending on their main technological and commercial areas of specialization. In most cases they operate within localized geographical areas and interact within larger innovation systems at the regional, national and international level. With globalization, dynamic clusters are becoming key factors in a country’s capacity to attract the international investment that generates new technological expertise, to interest investors in innovation (venture capital, etc.) and to benefit from the international mobility of skilled personnel. This book reviews the latest economic research on these issues, shows how technology policy makers in OECD countries are making practical use of the concept of clusters and suggests how government policies to foster innovation might best be refocused.

Rent, resources, technologies
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ISBN: 3540660070 364208530X 3662039451 9783540660071 Year: 1999 Publisher: Heidelberg ; New York ; Berlin ... Springer-Verlag

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Rent, resources, and technologies are three crucial issues to the understanding of history and economics. The scarcity of resources, its interplay with technology, and the role of rent in explaining both economic growth and income distribution are investigated by adopting a multi-sectoral and non-proportional model, where scarce resources impose several scale constraints that may slow growth, but may contribute to further development of new technologies. In this dynamic framework the category of rent acquires new dimensions with far-reaching implications for both the system of prices and the distribution of income. The analytical and formal-theoretical perspective of this book could be used as a basis for future historical and quantitative studies.

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Breakthroughs [Technological ] --- Changements technologiques --- Développement technologique --- Ground-rent --- Hulpbronnen [Natuurlijke ] --- Huur --- Huurgeld --- Huurprijs --- Innovaties [Technologische ] --- Innovations [Industrial ] --- Innovations [Technological ] --- Innovations industrielles --- Innovations techniques --- Innovations technologiques --- Loyer --- Mutations technologiques --- National resources --- Natural resources --- Natural resources--Economic aspects --- Natuurlijke hulpbronnen --- Nieuwigheden [Technological ] --- Nouvelle technologie --- Nouvelles techniques --- Nouvelles technologies --- Pacht --- Prix de location --- Prix du bail --- Progrès technique --- Rent --- Resources [Natural ] --- Ressources naturelles --- Technical innovations --- Technological breakthroughs --- Technological change --- Technological innovations --- Technologies nouvelles --- Technologische innovaties --- Technologische nieuwigheden --- Loyers --- Innovations --- Rent. --- Natural resources. --- Technological innovations. --- Breakthroughs, Technological --- Innovations, Industrial --- Innovations, Technological --- Creative ability in technology --- Inventions --- Domestication of technology --- Innovation relay centers --- Research, Industrial --- Technology transfer --- Resources, Natural --- Resource-based communities --- Resource curse --- Payment --- Landlord and tenant --- Real property --- Economic aspects --- Law and legislation --- Macroeconomics. --- Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics. --- Economics


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Managing National Innovation Systems
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ISBN: 9264170383 9786610081622 1280081627 9264189416 Year: 1999 Publisher: Paris : OECD Publishing,

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 With the emergence of a knowledge-based society, innovation has become an increasingly important factor in the competitiveness of firms, the prosperity of nations and dynamic world growth. Innovation uses scientific progress to meet the changing needs of society and is thus one of the keys to sustainable development. Promoting innovation is now a high priority in most OECD countries. However, the pursuit of this objective is often hampered by an inadequate understanding of the extent to which the mechanisms of innovation are being transformed by globalisation, the development of information and communications technologies and the expanding scientific knowledge base. Drawing on new empirical data, this book analyses the fundamental changes in the linkages between industry and the science system as well as in the nature of the competencies required for firms to innovate. The changes which are transforming the respective roles of competition and co-operation in stimulating innovation and which are enabling enterprise creation and SMIs to play an increasingly active role in innovation are also examined. This book shows that innovation performance depends on the way in which the different components of the "innovation system" -- businesses, universities and other research bodies - interact with one another at the local, national and international levels, and concludes that the public authorities must change their approach to the promotion of innovation. This study defines the aims and tools of this new innovation policy and identifies examples of good policy practice recently implemented in OECD countries.

Viet Nam at the crossroads : the role of science and technology
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ISBN: 0889368732 9786610849796 1280849797 1552502848 9780889368736 9781552502846 Year: 1999 Publisher: Ottawa, ON, Canada : International Development Research Centre,

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Viet Nam continues to emerge on the world stage, as does its new and developing market economy. In this spirit, Viet Nam's Minister of Science, Technology and Environment approached the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) in January 1997 for assistance in developing a new science and technology strategy. In response, IDRC and CIDA assembled a team of experts into a mission with the following objectives:. Assess the impact of current Vietnamese science and technology policies on the economic and social development of Viet Nam;. Compare the Vietnamese experience with regard to science and technology policies with those of other countries in East and Southeast Asia; and. Based on these finding, make recommendations on the formulation of a long-term science and technology strategy for Viet Nam. This books presents the presents the findings of the mission. It is now being used to shape policy in Viet Nam and will continue to do so in the coming years. Interested readers will include government officials and policymakers in science and technology; academics, researchers, professors,and university students in development studies, policy studies, and Asian studies; public and private businesses involved, or interested in becoming involved, in the changing economy of Viet Nam; and donor organizations and NGOs active in Viet Nam and throughout Asia.

Innovation policy in a global economy
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ISBN: 0521633613 0521633273 0511599080 0511837496 9780521633611 Year: 1999 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Innovation Policy in a Global Economy concludes the successful sequence of books on Globalisation and Technology edited by Daniele Archibugi and Jonathan Michie, following Technology, Globalisation and Economic Performance (Cambridge University Press, 1997) and Trade, Growth and Technical Change (Cambridge University Press, 1998). This final volume argues that the opportunities offered by globalisation will only be fully realised by organisations which have developed institutions that allow for the transfer, absorption, and use of knowledge. Innovation Policy in a Global Economy is relevant for graduate and undergraduate courses in management and business, economics, geography, international political economy, and innovation and technology studies. Presenting original theoretical and empirical research by leading international experts in an accessible style, Innovation Policy will be vital reading for researchers and students and of use to public policy professionals.

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