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negligible presence in world technology. Despite its current leaders’ ambitions to create a knowledge economy, Russia is … innovation and success. Graham finds Russia lacking on all counts. He explains that Russia’s failure to sustain technology, and … institutions, a national focus on nanotechnology, and the establishment of Skolkovo, “a new technology city.†Today, he argues …
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For decades the semiconductor industry has been a driver of global economic growth and social change. Semiconductors, particularly the microchips essential to most electronic devices, have transformed computing, communications, entertainment, and industry. In Chips and Change, Clair Brown and...
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In this book Youngil Lim explores the process by which the poverty-stricken agrarian economy of South Korea was transformed over the past three decades into a semi-industrial urban economy. The chief questions Lim addresses are: Where did South Korea's technological knowledge come from? What did...
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rates; the stochastic dimension of the American economy; the role of technology as a source of economic fluctuations; and …
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. The first three chapters provide an overview of the communication system in technology, present the author's research …
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was the rise of information technology. The new technology has had such a significant impact on the economy that "the new … questions about the effects of information technology on various aspects of the economy. The topics include the relationship …
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technology to opportunistic exploitation of relationship specificity. Economists working on macroeconomics, development, growth …
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The past twenty-five years have seen a significant evolution in environmental policy, with new environmental legislation and substantive amendments to earlier laws, significant advances in environmental science, and changes in the treatment of science (and scientific uncertainty) by the courts....
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technology and preferences, such as fixed input-output coefficients. These assumptions are contradicted by the massive evidence …
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findings on the presence of small firms, small-firm entry in manufacturing, small-firm growth and flexible technology, and …
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