With the ongoing restructuring in Sudan, structural issues such as the need for skill development and interaction with technological change need an in-depth analysis that this book offers. The central themes of this book are- required skill formation, upskilling of the workers, and their...

Tension exists between technologists and social thinkers because of the impact technology and innovation have on social values and norms, which is often viewed as damaging to the cultural fabric of a nation or society. Since the global business environment is the context in which implementation...

This book presents effective strategies for developing countries to leverage their public sector demand for manufactured imports to promote industrialization, trade, and technology transfer. Technology transfer and its absorption is considered one of the most crucial and complicated challenges...

An ICT-Enabled Innovation and Enterprise Transformation -- Implications of the ICT Revolution for Business -- Strategic Options for Private Sector Development -- Transforming Enterprises: Innovation, Networking and Diffusion -- Transforming Business Environment -- ICT Services Industry for an...

I. Conclusions and Recommendations -- Session 1: Topics in Appropriate Technology Projects -- The Gaviotas Program -- An Analysis of Factors Affecting the Succesful Continuity of a Solar Destillation Plant in the West Indies -- A New Approach Towards Rural Development: Appropriate Technology and...

1.Introduction -- 2.Risk Assessment -- 3.Hierarchical Model in Decision-Making -- 4.An Integrated Fuzzy Approach for Aggregative Supplier Risk Assessment -- 5.Fuzzy-AHP Approach for Analysing Risk Rating of Environmentally Friendly Product Designs -- 6.Fuzzy Extent Analysis for Food Risk...

Chapter 1 Towards Understanding and Applying Knowledge Management and Knowledge Management Systems in Developing Countries: Some Conceptual Foundations -- Chapter 2 Towards a Community-Centered Knowledge Management Architecture for Disaster Management in Sub Saharan Africa -- Chapter 3 Managing...

The main focus of this book is innovation for developing countries: what is the innovation for, what are the current conditions of the innovation, and how to effectively innovate in developing economies. It contains the latest insights and analyses of innovation based on intensive interviews as...

Accelerate your company's growth in a disciplined fashion. This book provides leaders of large and small companies a proven comprehensive framework to think systematically about growth options and to yield practical strategies that produce faster growth. Drawing insights from case studies of...

This book's thirteen contributions bring together the results of recent research on determinants of regional specialization, growth, and convergence in the context of European integration. They offer fresh theoretical and empirical evidence on patterns of regional production structures,...