Blurring organizational issues and social phenomena in the age of technology: a multidisciplinary perspective

Blurring organizational issues and social phenomena in the age of technology: a multidisciplinary perspective
Author: Nemesio Castillo
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 439
Release: 2013-04-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 130070344X

The predominant view in economic theory until the crisis of the '70s, argued the great enterprise was the key player in the innovation process, this was conceived as an activity that unfolded in specific areas, with clear responsibilities and predetermined objectives. This operating structure of the innovative process was functional demand model that favored the standardization of production. The innovative process was developed predominantly by firms that had a domain oligopolistic market from which they made windfall with which financed the research and development activities. In this context, the role of SMEs in the innovation process is limited to covering the portion of the market that big companies left.

COMUNIICA

COMUNIICA
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Total Pages: 31
Release: 2005-10
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COMUNIICA online is the technical journal of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA). It is published quarterly in Spanish and English; all articles include an abstract in English or Spanish, and in Portuguese and French.

Innovation, Industrial Dynamics and Structural Transformation

Innovation, Industrial Dynamics and Structural Transformation
Author: Uwe Cantner
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 412
Release: 2007-03-08
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3540494650

This book provides an account of work in the Schumpeterian and evolutionary tradition of industrial dynamics and the evolution of industries. It is shown that over time industries evolve and change their structure. In this dynamic process, change is affected and sometimes constraint by many factors, including knowledge and technologies, the capabilities and incentives of actors, new products and processes, and institutions.

Analysis of the German EXIST-II-Program and Its Transferability to Mexico

Analysis of the German EXIST-II-Program and Its Transferability to Mexico
Author: Claudia Erika Gutiérrez Díaz
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 494
Release: 2013
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3844102582

The promotion of entrepreneurship in higher education appears in the political spectrum as a new economic policy arena. In this field policy blanks and new kinds of problems need to be addressed. Scholars agree that many of the current structures and models in higher education do not fit the necessary requirements for the development of entrepreneurship training. New perspectives in this field can be gained through an analysis of the feasibility of a policy transfer of the German EXIST-II-Program to Mexico. This program was developed to address the entrepreneurial potential within higher educational institutions through the coordination of entrepreneurial efforts carried out by regional, national and supranational actors. An empirical analysis of the objectives, regulations, actors and governance, personnel (staff), financial resources, beneficiaries and output of the program as well as a comparative study of Germany versus Mexico in this book demonstrates under what conditions the transfer of know-how from Germany, specifically from the EXIST-II-Program to universities in Mexico could be implemented. The research offers alternatives to improve the current ongoing initiatives in Mexico.

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Publisher: IICA
Total Pages: 198
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International Handbook on Industrial Policy

International Handbook on Industrial Policy
Author: P. Bianchi
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 487
Release: 2008-01-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1847201547

This timely and much-needed Handbook reconsiders an old topic from a fresh perspective, raising a number of new, interesting and worthwhile issues in the wake of ten years of globalization. This comprehensive analysis illustrates that old-style industrial policies whereby the government directly intervened in markets, and was often the producer itself, are no longer relevant. Structural changes occurring in economies summarized in the term globalization are triggering the definition and implementation of new industrial policies. The contributors, leading experts in their field, unite to evaluate this shift of over a decade ago. Employing various empirical and methodological approaches with a strong theoretical underpinning, this world-wide study of the state-of-the-art of industrial policy issues is an invaluable reference tool. It has been enthusiastically received by a wide-ranging audience including scholars, researchers and policy makers with an interest in industrial economics and policy, business studies and policies for growth, competitiveness and development.

United Nations Documents Index

United Nations Documents Index
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Total Pages: 560
Release: 2002
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9789211009118

The United Nations Documents Index covers documents and publications issued by the United Nations offices worldwide. The publication indexes a wide variety of documentation such as major reports and studies, resolutions and decisions, draft resolutions and meeting records, including documents of restricted distribution. The information in this publication is arranged in the following nine sections: documents and publications; official records; sales publications; United Nations maps included in UN documents; United Nations sheet maps; United Nations document series symbols; author index; title index and subject index.

Structural Reforms, Technological Gaps and Economic Development

Structural Reforms, Technological Gaps and Economic Development
Author: Mario Cimoli
Publisher: Santiago, Chile : United Nations, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Division of Production, Productivity and Management
Total Pages: 56
Release: 2002
Genre: Business & Economics
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This publication develops a simple appreciative model, which explores some of the issues faced by structural reforms, technological gaps and economic development in Latin America. The first section introduces the issues and provides an overview of the publication. Section two introduces a brief view as to how the evolutionary approach should be adapted to analyze the impact of recent structural reforms upon the specialization pattern and technological capabilities accumulated in so called developing economies. Section three provides a simple macro-to-micro model of the stabilization cum structural reform process. Sections four and five are devoted to investigating recent changes in the pattern of production specialization of the Latin American economies and the relationship such changes have with the exit and entry of firms.