Notes the existence of private technology transfer or transactions but examines in some detail the efforts of UNDP/TCDC; OAS; the Commonwealth Fund for Technical Cooperation; USAID; the Peace Corps and the International Development Research Centre, noting that they have been particularly important in both the promotion and implementation of the concept of technology transfer.
Examines in detail the types and methods of technology transfer which range from agricultural extensions to seminars and workshops.…
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This paper makes the link between information, its management
and governance. It explores the literature in an attempt to gain an appreciation
of what constitutes governance and extracts from that search a number of views.
The paper is built in part around those views that in fact converge. Governance
needs to be informed continually by information flows that are examined,
digested and evaluated against the intended direction of government policy. The
mechanics of establishing an effective information system are discussed against
the background of an existing system that is unequal to…
Caribbean governments have been reacting to the phenomenon that is the Information Age with a variety of policy initiatives. Initially governments trained most of their efforts at facilitating the development of an informatics industry, drawn there by the promise of jobs and foreign exchange earnings. However, the motives for these policy interventions have evolved over time and as a consequence, policy has matured. This paper, which is descriptive rather than analytical, draws heavily on statements made by government decision makers. It attempts to provide an overview of some of the maj…
Abstract As in other parts of the world, small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Latin America are important generators of employment while contributing to establishing certain social as well as regional 'equilibria' in the development process within the country. However, SMEs in Latin America are much less 'export-oriented'than their East Asian counterparts. SMEs in Latin America tend to produce import substitutes and non tradables while manufactured exports are still produced by large firms in relativelycapital-intensive ways. In contrast, many East Asian SMEs are…
Resumen Los profundos cambios que el advenimiento de Internet, el comercio electrónico, la globalización de los mercados, así como los graves problemas para gestionar adecuadamente el transporte urbano, están provocando un nuevo escenario para el transporte, donde la tecnología se alza como una de las herramientas que permitirá mantenerse en un mercado cada vez más competitivo, tecnificado y profesionalizado, siendo la exigencia de información dinámica entre los componentes de la cadena productiva y logística, una de las principales preocupaciones de los nuevos clientes. La tan comentada bre…
Resumen Este trabajo identifica los cambios en el proceso de conocimiento y en la formación de recursos humanos, que inciden en las políticas públicas de productividad en las áreas de la biotecnología, telecomunicación y electrónica. Las nuevas exigencias competitivas de la sociedad basada en el conocimiento requiere de instituciones educativas que sean capaces de organizar espacios sociales de aprendizaje y de investigación en lo científico, tecnológico y educativo. En la configuración de las competencias tecnológicas de los sectores industriales seleccionados se intenta identificar las nuev…
Abstract This paper is part of an investigation about the impact of modern Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) on Latin America. Based on the theoretical groundwork given in the introductory paper (From industrial economics to digital economics: an introduction to the transition ), the present paper gives an inventory of the state of development with regard to the regional transition to the so-called Information Society, in order to untangle and structure present dynamics. As knowledge and information are becoming the focus of activity, penetrating and dominating capital, natural…
The growing use of e-commerce and the need to generate efficient solutions to problems such as traffic jams and the physical distribution of merchandise have created a new scenario for transport in general, particularly in urban areas. Because of this, the application of new information and telecommunications technologies presents a strategic challenge that enables maximum advantage to be obtained from the deregulation of markets and the opening up of economies, as well as addressing other urgent needs of this sector. This issue of the Bulletin is based on a study of the application of informa…
La creciente utilización del comercio electrónico y la necesidad de generar soluciones eficaces a problemas como la congestión vehicular y la distribución física de mercaderías, están generando un nuevo escenario para el transporte, principalmente para el urbano. Es por ello que la incorporación de las nuevas tecnologías de información y telecomunicaciones no sólo representa un reto estratégico para aprovechar las ventajas de la desregulación de los mercados y apertura de las economías, sino que es una necesidad perentoria para el sector.La presente edición del Boletín se basa en un estudio re…
Abstract This paper focuses on creating a basic awareness of the new economic coherence, which has been provoked by the introduction of modern Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). It is based on methods of traditional Industrial Economics (bricks-and-mortar economy). The paper shall endeavor to show the differences that exist between Industrial- and Digital Economics, but shall also show that we do not need to burn the old textbooks. Nevertheless there is an urgent need to rewrite them, in a sense of refocusing. Starting from the new basic conditions of the Digital Economy, which …
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