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The water-mill, though known in the Roman Empire from the second century BCE, did not come to enjoy any widespread use until the 4th or 5th centuries CE, and then chiefly in the West, which was then experiencing not only a rapid decline in the supply of slaves, but also widespread depopulation,...
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Since the mid 1900’s, economist have come to recognize the role of innovative activity in firms productivity growth, particularly in the competitive market economies. However, the most conducive market environment for innovative activity has also become a subject of interest. Thus, a major...
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Having students learn and be assessed in groups is a means to develop among students intellectual and interactive skills/competencies described as generic or “wicked”, as well as of producing deeper learning of various types of knowledge (e.g. organicistic, contextualistic, formistic,...
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Today’s world is facing many problems caused by the economic crisis leading thus to an education crisis. Witnessing major changes in the curricula, at different ways of assessment, at teaching and learning in transdiciplinary manner which took by surprise the students who, in turn, feel...
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Mexico and Chile. These two countries enable one to contrast the different routes taken by the same type of firm, technology …, railway technology had a positive impact on human capital training in the cases studied. During the period when railways were … modern technology and it was not until well into the 20th century that a formal system of technical schools was established …
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India's diversified and sophisticated manufacturing base contrasts strongly with the near complete absence of visible innovative capabilities. This article examines the Indian "National System of Innovation" in order to address the question of the evident distinction between the ability to make...
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should be given to liberalization of investment flows, higher technology cooperation, and cooperation in areas of education …
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bringing into being the type of workforce that is required to make use of leading-edge technology. On the other hand …, industrial development in the modern economy depends critically on human development, precisely because of modern technology … workforce with the high levels of education and skills required to make modern technology effective - instead of passing through …
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technology and demand factors. The linked worker-plant data are produced by matching workers in the Employment Statistics … technology on skill demand we introduce plant level technology indicators from the R&D Survey and a Manufacturing Technology …
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The paper discuses most current issues on technology implementation dynamics observed across nations, as well as it … focuses on the problem of suppose technology convergence (or divergence) among nations. The author implements and verifies the …
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