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Bendis, Richard A.; Seline, Richard S.; Byler, Ethan J. – Industry and Higher Education, 2008
Accelerating innovation to drive economic growth is the foremost goal for technology-based economic development organizations today. Realizing this goal through programmes is challenged by limited and outdated operating models. The authors outline their 21st Century Innovation Intermediary model, which pairs commercialization with regional…
Descriptors: Innovation, Developmental Programs, Economic Development, Appropriate Technology
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Kemppainen, Jyri; Tedre, Matti; Sutinen, Erkki – Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 2012
Information technology (IT) professionals face markedly different kinds of challenges in developing countries from the ones in developed countries. Based on the research literature and our fourteen years of fieldwork in Iringa, Tanzania, we have identified eight groups of technical characteristics of IT work that significantly affect the work of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Engineering Education, Work Environment
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Edmundson, Andrea – Educational Media International, 2007
The most developed, progressive, and economically stable countries in the world are those that are technologically advanced. Technological change and the building of human capabilities are interrelated: each requires the development of the other for success and the "rethinking [of] educational systems to meet the new challenges of…
Descriptors: Technological Literacy, Distance Education, Technology Education, Science and Society