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Innovation through Long-distance Conversations? Lessons from Offshoring-based Software Clusters in Bangalore
Okada, Aya - eSocialSciences - 2009
the main sources of knowledge transfer and innovation among key firms in Bangalore’s software cluster are their external …This paper is aganist the popular assertion regarding the links between innovation and clustering and it is found that … knowledge brought in by foreign networks. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512451
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The Higher Education and Research Bill, 2011
eSocialSciences; Parliamentary Research Service PRS - 2012
A bill to promote autonomy of higher educational institutions and universities for free pursuit of knowledge and … innovation and to provide for comprehensive and integrated growth of higher education and research keeping in view the global …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010567996
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National Policy on Skill development
Labour, Ministry of; Employment MoL&E - eSocialSciences - 2012
Skills and knowledge are the driving forces of economic growth and social development for any country. Countries with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945346
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Potential for Sharing Nuclear Power Infrastructure Between Countries
eSocialSciences; International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA - 2007
regional or at multinational level. It can include physical facilities, common programmes and knowledge, which will reflect in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005341744
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The Global Race for Excellence and Skilled Labour: A Status Report
Rollwagen, Ingo; Renkin, Tobias - eSocialSciences - 2012
coordinates that define the development of knowledge, higher education and excellence of these efforts. [DB]. URL …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009653328
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White Spaces in Building Innovation Clusters
Rao, A S - eSocialSciences - 2011
Clusters are groups of firms, related actors, and institutions that are located near one another and that draw productive advantage from their mutual proximity and connections. This paper studies the ways of managing white spaces to make a cluster innovative....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009319337
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Distress Situation in Dryland Areas Impacts on Livelihood Pattern and the Coping Strategies: A Review
Patnaik, Itishree - eSocialSciences - 2011
This paper is a review of the different coping mechanisms adopted by the households in different dryland area of India. The primary focus of the present paper is to understand the coping mechanisms adopted by the households in the dryland areas to cope with the distress situations in India. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009319349
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The Dynamics of Health and Return Migration
Davies, Anita A; Borland, Rosilyne M; Blake, Carolyn; … - eSocialSciences - 2011
Return migration and health has received little attention in policy and research. This article will focus on the risk factors and social determinants of health during all phases of migration that can impact the health of returnees. It will highlight the diversity of returning migrants and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009321507
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Rise of the ‘Posthumanities’: Exit, the Human…Pursued by a Cyborg
Nayar, Pramod K. - eSocialSciences - 2009
The Humanities in the 21st century has to contend with both critique and context. It has to account as an anthropocentric, imperial discipline that not only privileged the human over other forms of life, but also some kinds of humanity. It also has to negotiate with a context where accepted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009250494
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Intellectual Property Rights: Who Needs Them?
Gupta, Garima; Rastogi, Avih - eSocialSciences - 2010
The twenty-first century will be the century of knowledge, indeed the century of the intellect. A nation’s ability to … translate knowledge into wealth and social good through innovations will determine its future. Thus innovations hold the key to … the creation as well as processing of knowledge. Consequently issues of generation, evaluation, protection and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008462828