in many cases replaced them. One area ripe for the incursion of NTBs concerns technology standards. The WTO's Agreement … efficiency of production and facilitating the conduct of international trade, but also cautions that standards should not be used …

case. Computers used to be specialized, doing only narrow sets of calculations. Their rise as a 'general purpose technology …It is a triumph of technology and of economics that our computer chips are so universal. Countless applications are … fall. This paper outlines the forces already starting to fragment this general purpose technology …

Human development, in combination with technology, yields economic growth which, in turn, is necessary to generate …. Secondly, the paper tries to investigate what affects technology change, as represented by TFP. We examine the influence of … openness, FDI, patents and R&D in a 22 country sample and also contrast Asian and Latin American experience. -- Technology …

-adoption among technology-based SMEs in Malaysia.Methodology/Technique - The study uses questionnaires survey and regression analysis … to test the hypothesis in a sample of 172 from two listings which are InnoCert company list and MTDC list of technology … technology-based SMEs in Malaysia is not well understood and clear. Factors that influence innovation-adoption among these …

potential. The Network has been involved in the sharing of grassroots technology developed in India with Kenya, notably a food … recognition of the dynamism of the informal sector. Lessons from the Network fs experience in Kenya and its technology transfer …

domain of scientific analyses. The conception technology has been one of the most troublesome and yet one of the most … important concepts in science. The goal of this study is to suggest a new conception of technology with a systemic …-purposeful perspective for technology analysis. Technology here is a complex system, made and/or used by living systems, that is composed of …

This paper examines how product market competition affects firms' timing of adopting a new technology as well as …. When goods are differentiated enough, adoption occurs later than it is socially optimal. -- technology adoption …

Evolution of technology is a stepwise advancement of a complex system of artifact, driven by interaction with sub … society. This study explains evolution of technology with two different approaches: theories based on processes of competitive … substitution of a new technology for the old one and theories considering a multi-mode interaction between technologies, such as …

This study seeks to better understand the impact that government technology procurement regulations have on social … value and national competitiveness. To do this, it examines the impact of a change in France's technology procurement policy …, these results show that changes in government technology policy that favor OSS can have a positive impact on both global …

production cycle time, increases in production capacity, and improvement in product quality. We find that the breadth and depth …