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Technology imports and indigenous technological capacity building: the zimbabwean case.
DB, Ndlela - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1987
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010967155
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Spurious flexibility: technical modernisation and social inequalities in the Brazilian footwear industry.
V, Prochnik - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1992
Covers the period from 1975 to 1990 and gives projections to the year 2000. Focuses on two segments of the footwear industry: the production of women's leather footwear and sports footwear. The study is supplemented by an interview survey conducted in eight of the largest export firms.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010965783
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Institutional factors and technological innovations: the case of hyv rice in Bangladesh.
W, Mahmud; Muqtada, M - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1983
ILO pub-WEP pub. Diffusion study of institutional frameworks for agricultural technology Innovation, i.e., high … yielding variety rice, in Bangladesh - applies Ruttan's induced Innovation model to explain technological change; deals with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010966575
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Technology adaptation in micro-enterprises : the case of bangalore ( India)
Sethuraman, S. V - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1989
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010966826
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Technological change, employment generation and multinationals: a case study of a foreign firm and a local multinational in India.
Lall, S - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1983
ILO pub. Working paper on the impact of multinational enterprises on technological change and employment creation, comprising a case study of a foreign subsidiary and a local firm in India - discusses theoretical issues, size of enterprise, research and development, innovations, backward and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010966891
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Market structure, industrial organisation and technological development: the case of the Japanese electronics-based nc-machine tool industry.
Watanabe, S - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1983
electronics Innovation on small scale industry, the international division of labour and on developing countries. Bibliography and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010966894
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Technological adaptation and employment in the small-scale farm machinery industry: uttar pradesh, India.
Mishra, S. C - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1985
ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on industrial development, based on a sample of 81 small scale industries producing agricultural machinery in Uttar Pradesh, India - explains industries' stagnation due to failure to produce technological change and innovations; stresses need for marketing and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010966908
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The Institutional Revelation: A comment on Douglas W. Allen’s <Emphasis Type="BoldItalic">The Institutional Revolution
Mokyr, Joel; Espín-Sánchez, José-Antonio - In: The Review of Austrian Economics 26 (2013) 4, pp. 375-381
Institutions are a central topic in economic history. Allen’s work differs in that he is interested in institutions per se, not as a means to economic performance and prosperity. The purpose of this book is to explain the institutions of the premodern world and to show why they changed. His...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010987937
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Technological unemployment in industrial countries
Feldmann, Horst - In: Journal of Evolutionary Economics 23 (2013) 5, pp. 1099-1126
Using annual data on 21 industrial countries from the period 1985 to 2009 and a large number of controls, this paper empirically analyzes the impact of technological change on unemployment. As proxy for technological change, it uses the ratio of triadic patent families to population. According...
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Developing science, technology and innovation indicators: what we can learn from the past
Soete, Luc; Freeman, Chris - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2007
The science-technology-innovation system is one that is continuously and rapidly evolving. The dramatic growth over the … last twenty years in the use of science, technology and innovation (STI) indicators appears first and foremost the result … and economic objectives and in which business competition is increasingly based on innovation. As highlighted on the basis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856492