Описание: Economists have long argued that developing countries have the potential for high productivity growth if they adopt existing technologies and apply them to the local context. This report brings to bear a battery of new data sources to explore the innovation ""paradox"": despite the potential for very high returns, developing countries invest far less in adopting and inventing new processes and products than advanced countries. The report posits three broad factors underlying this paradox. The first is that firms in developing countries lack the managerial and technological capabilities to undertake meaningful innovation projects. This implies that conventional innovation policies are unlikely to be effective, and moving firms up the ""capabilities escalator"" becomes central. A second factor is that firm capability is only one of many critical ingredients - for instance, access to financial markets, macroeconomic stability, and imported machinery - that are complements to the innovation process, and whose absence lowers the return to innovation in developing countries. This implies that cultivating an effective innovation system will be a greater policy challenge, and that standard measures of innovation performance, such as research and development or GDP, are misleading. Finally, government capabilities required to redress these two points are also correspondingly weaker in developing countries, so building these capabilities needs to be explicitly integrated in formulating innovation policy.
Описание: This book discusses skill formation, upskilling of workers, and their interaction with technological change in Gulf countries. A comprehensive investigation of the skill problem and an elaborate in-depth analysis to assess the causes, consequences and relationships between poor skills and technological performance are highlights of this book.
Описание: An authoritative examination of how small firms in developing countries acquire technological capability - the knowledge and skills required to operate technology effectively and to adapt it to local conditions.
Описание: In current times, innovation has gained tremendous interest as a strategic tool for business. For many industries innovation in business includes either digital or bio-tech. However, across most industries innovation covers both finance, and labor, and is a crucial towards achieving overall performance, although there is currently no formal innovation strategy. In this book, the topic of innovation in the corporate environment is taken into consideration and is placed into the category of a technology lifecycle version to better understand the innovation process. This book explores some commonplace versions of innovation, techniques for innovation, and evaluates genericized business methodologies of technology, providing a listing of possible study areas. Growing international demand for innovation in business activities, is intended to grow and provide international financial competitiveness, inclusively as an impact of cognizance regarding the results of economic growth on intake of resources and environment, which calls for layout of new styles of manufacturing and consumption. This book critiques the contributions of technology in modern day society and business.
Автор: Ewa Lechman Название: ICT Diffusion in Developing Countries ISBN: 3319368761 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319368764 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 13974.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book provides an extensive overview of the diffusion of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in developing countries between 2000 and 2012. Readers will discover how developing countries are now adopting ICTs, rapidly catching up with the developed world in terms of ICT access and use.
Описание: SME's are acknowledged as effective sources of jobs and incomes, gaining an important position in the development agenda, subsequently 'cluster' policies were conceived as a framework to augment the effects of SMEs and to optimize resources used to support them. Based on case studies from Brazil, Vietnam, Indonesia and India, this volume examines SME clusters and argues that unless they counteract common problems such as very low wages, poor working conditions, poor quality products and lack or environmental regulation, they will be pushed out of the market and so become unsustainable. This book suggests that the SME clusters currently being stretched should react by 'socially upgrading' in order to improve their innovation capacity, as well as social, environmental and labour standards. It puts forward conceptual frameworks which explain the way firms can upgrade: through markets, interaction among cluster members, through Corporate Social Responsibility and other such public policy, and through the better enforcement of regulation.
Автор: Noor Hazlina Ahmad, T. Ramayah, Abdul Halim, Syed Abidur Rahman Название: Handbook of Research on Small and Medium Enterprises in Developing Countries ISBN: 1522521658 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781522521655 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 37145.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Presents the latest research on the intentions, performance, and application models of independent firms. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as green IT, entrepreneurial ventures, and social capital, this publication is designed for researchers, academics, and practitioners seeking current research on the different opportunities and challenges in relation to this business sector.
Описание: This report is the first comprehensive framework on how to facilitate SMEs and LIDCs access to and upgrading within global value chains. It identifies policy interventions at the global level needed to support domestic reforms.
Описание: This study investigates the complex link between natural disasters, individual behaviour - in the form of an individual`s risk-taking propensity and level of trust - and the demand for microinsurance.
Описание: The Primary Questions Addressed By This Study, First Published In 1988, Focus On How Private Bankers Made Decisions On The Creditworthiness Of Developing Countries During The 1970S And What The Implications Of These Decision Rules Are For The Developing Countries Today. Based On Interviews With Senior Bankers About Their Decision Rules, The Author Has Developed Artificial Intelligence-Based Simulations Of Their Images Of Creditworthiness. Discussed Are Contemporary Proposals For Solving The Debt Crisis.
Описание: This study investigates the complex link between natural disasters, individual behaviour - in the form of an individual`s risk-taking propensity and level of trust - and the demand for microinsurance.
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