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Direct linkPinheiro, Romulo, Ed.; Benneworth, Paul, Ed.; Jones, Glen A., Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2012
Universities are under increasing pressure to help promote socio-economic growth in their local communities. However until now, no systematic, critical attention has been paid to the factors and mechanisms that currently make this process so daunting. In Universities and Regional Development, scholars from Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Role of Education, International Education
Quinn, James Brian; And Others – Scientific American, 1987
Discusses the transformation of service industries since World War II into the number one element in the economy, emphasizing the role that technology has played. Addresses the need for service industries to become even more technology-intensive, in an effort to stabilize employment and make manufacturing in the United States more competitive. (TW)
Descriptors: Economic Development, Economic Progress, Employment Patterns, Labor Economics
Adelman, Clifford – 1988
Competitiveness is viewed as an umbrella for such concerns as trade and budget deficits, savings and investment rates, real wage growth, productivity growth, and retraining of dislocated workers. The main reason for interest in competitiveness in the United States now, it is suggested, is the recent massive U.S. trade deficit. The view is stressed…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Competition, Economic Development, Economic Progress
Peer reviewedvan Egmond-de Wilde de Ligny, E. L. C.; Kumaraswamy, M. M. – Industry and Higher Education, 2003
The authors present a conceptual framework that is considered useful for investment studies and consultancy activities on international technology transfer (ITT). Thoroughly elaborated investment studies--by which possible risks and constraints can be identified--can provide valuable support to decision makers in an ITT project. There appears to…
Descriptors: Technology Transfer, Investment, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries
Seabrook, Roberta – 1988
In 1986 the Technology and Social Change Program and the College of Business at Iowa State University joined forces to develop a new graduate course that focused on the role of the multinational corporation in technology transfer to the lesser developed countries. The course was team taught by faculty from different disciplines and colleges, and…
Descriptors: Business Education, Course Descriptions, Curriculum Development, Developing Nations
Mensing, Friedhelm – 1987
In order to adapt new technologies and special processes to the particular conditions of developing nations, the German Appropriate Technology Exchange (GATE) was established in 1978 within the German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ). This document traces the major aspects of cooperation between the Federal Republic of Germany and its…
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Developing Nations, Economic Development, Economic Progress
Download full textCommittee for Economic Development, 1998
This policy statement looks at America's basic research enterprise and lays out the processes and systematic reforms needed to meet emerging risks to the outcomes from investments in basic research. The Committee for Economic Development (CED) undertook this project in the belief that significant progress with many of society's problems and new…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Economic Progress, Technology Transfer, Research
