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 …

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 …

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 …

technologies. The data used are taken from the 1989 Survey of Manufacturing Technology and are linked to administrative data taken … from the Census of Manufacturers. Technology use is defined first as incidence (whether a technology is used) and second as … characteristics that represent the competencies of the plant reporting technology use--its size, the size of its owning enterprise …

The fundamental problem in the field of technology studies is how technology evolves and sustains economic change in … technology in human societies. Technological host-parasites coevolution is a mutual symbiotic relationship between a host … technology and associated technologies directed to satisfy needs and/or to solve problems of human beings. To explore the …

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

progression of scientific findings through a major university's technology transfer process and 2.) firms' use of the academic … dissemination of academic science in industry. For the second, we find that reputation per se, apart from the production of …