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This paper explores the linkages between the national systems of innovation of Botswana, South Africa, Zambia, and … reveals four individual national systems of innovation, with different outcomes in terms of engineering skills development …, technical vocational education and training, research and development, innovation capabilities, and competitiveness of the …
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-year experience as a World Bank staff member, the author takes an institutional perspective on the innovation climate at the World … toolkit as key factors influencing the climate for innovation. The interaction and impact of these factors are illustrated …
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This paper traces the role of local content in Zambia's mining sector in supporting industrialization and economic diversification. It assesses productive linkages and manufacturing competitiveness during import-substitution industrialization and post-1991 liberalization and privatization, and...
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This paper explores the potential to leverage large-scale mineral extraction in Botswana, Zambia, and Zimbabwe to foster mineral beneficiation and upstream industries. The evidence suggests that the success or failure of a resource-based industrialization approach is country and sector specific,...
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This paper assesses biofuels technology readiness and provides foresight to biofuels development in Southern Africa. Efficient conversion pathways, coupled with biomass from waste or high-yielding energy crops, reduces both the costs of biofuels production and the environmental impacts....
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This proceedings volume brings together the results of a corporate discussion on research, academic teaching and education in the field of business and economics in the context of globalization. The contributions examine leadership and sustainability, quality and governance and the...
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for global health and resource-based problems. Oliver Uecke analyses how early stages of the innovation process in … biotechnology can be effectively managed, with the aim to transfer an innovation from academia to industry. A mixed method approach …
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1 Einleitung -- 1 Einleitung -- A: Grundlagen der Integrationsgestaltung -- 2 Einordnung und begriffliche Abgrenzung -- 3 Integrationsplanung und Integrationsumsetzung -- 4 Grundlegende Erkenntnisse aus der Forschung -- 5 Forschungsansatz -- B: Erfolgsfaktoren der Integrationsgestaltung -- 6...
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Der Autor zeigt Strukturveränderungen internationaler Forschungs- und Entwicklungsaktivitäten (F&E) innerhalb der globalen Informations- und Kommunikationstechnischen Industrie (IKT) auf und untersucht die Schwerpunktverlagerung technologischer Kompetenzen in die BRIC-Staaten. Er analysiert...
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The book investigates the interplay of brand equity and technological assets at the corporate level. In a grounded theory approach it develops a model of how companies in technology intensive industries can improve the appropriation of the returns of their intangible technological assets with...
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