Science, Technology and Industry Outlook 2000
Science, Technology and Industry Outlook 2000

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2000-09-27

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 9264187863

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This study summarises key recent developments in science, technology and innovation across the OECD area. It covers trends, provides an overview of policy developments and emphasises the roles played by science and technology in recent economic growth.

Bargaining with Multinationals
Bargaining with Multinationals

Author: H. Loewendahl

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2001-07-19

Total Pages: 446

ISBN-13: 0230595715

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In Bargaining with Multinationals , Loewendahl scrutinises the relationship between multinational companies, regional development and governments, using an international political economy framework of bargaining between government and multinationals. He critically analyses the role of foreign investment in economic development, and examines how governments can link inward investment to regional economic development. Based on extensive use of data, interviews and case studies of Siemens and Nissan's UK investment, the book shows why MNCs have invested in the UK in the past, how they bargained with the government, and what the impact was on the national and regional economies. In particular, through linking the strategy of multinationals to the location advantages of the UK, it is argued that labour flexibility and incentives were crucial to investment decisions. Loewendahl recommends a framework to integrate endogenous and exogenous approaches to developments; and proposes a greater role for the region and the EU to control incentives and monitor multinationals.

ISNAR Agricultural Research Indicator Series
ISNAR Agricultural Research Indicator Series

Author: Philip G. Pardey

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2004-01-05

Total Pages: 564

ISBN-13: 9780521543330

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Fully-sourced country-specific files on the basic resources committed to national agricultural research systems for 154 developing and developed countries.

Creative Destruction
Creative Destruction

Author: Phil Mullan

Publisher: Policy Press

Published: 2017-03-29

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 1447336127

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Western economies have become stuck in a protracted depression that began long before the 2008 crash. Low productivity, which started in the 1970s, has prevented durable rises in living standards. Phil Mullan shows that the only way to ensure a better future is to create one, calling for a comprehensive economic restructure backed by political and cultural change. This means embracing the uncomfortable disruption involved in progressive change, rekindling in democratic form a spirit of Enlightenment thinking. The votes for Brexit and in the US presidential elections in 2016 indicate that many people desire change, offering greater opportunity for this public discussion. What is needed is a new industrial revolution which develops a broad range of emerging and yet unimagined services and products, provides decent jobs and restores prosperity. Providing examples of the new technologies needed to drive change, backed up by a wealth of data, this important book calls for a sea-change in imagination and thinking.

Science, Technology and Industry Outlook 1998
Science, Technology and Industry Outlook 1998

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 1998-10-09

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 9264163441

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Presents a discussion of recent trends and prospects in science, technology and industry, based on comparative indicators, such as output, investment and productivity, research and development (R&D), patent activity and innovation and knowledge flows.