programme that was urgent and determinant in the field of industrial sociology in Portugal. It focus again on the processes of …

Some developing economies (especially East Asian Countries) have long imitated western technology. It means that these … economies adopted an imitative attitude to new industrial technologies with regard to technology policies. Some changes recently … stimulates the imitation of technology makes worried some rich countries, some measures against this development have been taken …

At the last National Conference of Industrial Sociology in Portugal (in March 1999) was presented a paper on the topic … of “foresight as a technology and employment policy instrument” (A.B. Moniz) where there was a reference to the need of …. Thus, is today possible to make a first balance of the application in Portugal of a type of foresight analysis exercise …

due to emerging diversified digital technology. Everywhere, in the world, ever-advancing digital technology is performing … being transformed with an enormous speed through digital media. Getting education through technology is providing audio …-visual way of enhancing knowledge. But digital technology has its positive and negative affects. It needs some positive steps to …

effects (e.g., the non rival nature of technology conflicts with congestion externalities). This observation allows to …

In this working paper are present the main provisional results of the first round of a Delphi survey held in Portugal … Innovation, and financed by the Portuguese Ministry of Science and Technology. The majority of experts consider to have an …

Extant literature indicates that technology, and by implication its underlying knowledge base, determines long … between technology as knowledge and economic performance. This paper imposes a simple production function on annual pooled … observations on Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa over the 1976-2004 period to estimate the marginal impacts of technology as …