This book encourages thoughtful technological innovation while remaining conscious of its positive and negative consequences for society, presenting a method to help innovators anticipate consequences, minimize resistance, and enhance acceptance

This book provides detailed empirical analysis of countries in Asia to examine various dynamic models that incorporate the impact of technology and innovations on the industry evolution and overall economic growth

How well suited are the institutions of a region, nation or international regime to the task of coping with the dramatic changes currently underway in the global economy? This volume examines this issue

Introduction.- Balanced Growth in Decentralized Economies -- Transition to Balanced Growth -- The Finance of the Transition Phase -- Production Capacities in Decentralized Economies -- Models of Technological Progress in Decentralized Economies -- Cyclical Growth in Decentralized Economies.-...

Plenary Article -- Improving Hurricane Prediction Through Innovative Global Modeling -- Networks and Graphs -- A Branch-And-Price Approach for Graph Multi-Coloring -- A Genetic Algorithm for Solving the Euclidean Non-Uniform Steiner Tree Problem -- Optimization -- Cardinality and the Simplex...

Economic globalisation and technological change are the two issues that concerned people in the past, concern them today and will concern them in the future - all over the world, poor or rich. Traditionally, questions about allocative effects are asked: What are the labour market implications?...

Introduction -- Real, Monetary and Fiscal Integration in the European Union: A Prototype Model of European Integration - The Case of Austria -- Trade Agreements and Regional Disparities -- Strategic Macroeconomic Policies in a Monetary Union -- Determinants of Maximum Sustainable Government Debt...