Strategic business services, examined in twenty-one OECD coountry case studies in this book, comprise services in computer sofware and information processing, research and development and technical testing, marketing, business organisation (management consultancy and labour recruitment) and human...
Russia inherited the major portion of its scientific and technical system from the former Soviet Union. During the economic crissi and political uncertainty of the transition, this enormous apparatus has rapidly deteriorated. What is the current state of R&D efforts? What is happerning or has hap...
Russia inherited the major portion of the scientific and technological system of the former Soviet Union. In the economic crisis and the political uncertainty of transition, this vast apparatus is deteriorating rapidly. What is the status of research and development today? What is becoming of res...
Science, technology and industry are in a period of change, reflecting an ongoing move to a knowledge-based economy. Rapid technological
progress, driven by a productive scientific community and increasingly
effi cient business practices, the growing role of information and
communications tech...
Environmental threats have been increasingly taken into account in scientific and technological policy formaulatio. However, Research-Development (R&D) efforts in that area have been somewhat uneven among countries and threre have been markedly different institutional developments. One central is...
Environmental threats have been increasingly taken into account in scientific and technological policy formulation. However. Research-Development (R&D) efforts in that area have been somewhat uneven among countries and there have been different institutional developments. One central issue concer...
This study presents a detailed analysis of the Danish research and innovation system and related government policies. Its reconmmendations focus on the need for a national R&D strategy, form greater selectivity in government support, and for reinforcing those institutions responsible for promotin...
The changing nature of science, a steady stream of technological advances and the continued restructuring of industry has resulted in a blurring of the boundaries between science, technology and industry. This transformation is reflected in the 1996 Science, Technology and Industry Outlook which ...
Developments in information and communication technologies (ICT) contribute to the evolution of the scence system by supporting ongoing changes and introducing new ones to the working practices of scientists. ICT-based infrastructure underlies and significantly influences all aspects of science, ...
Modern biotechnology broadens the scope of the genetic changes that can be made to food organisms, as well as the range of possible sources of food. This book elaborates scientific principles to be considered in making evaluations of new foods or food components based on a comparison with foods t...
