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Author: Nigel Calder
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1971-10-15
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 0671210629
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom Simon & Schuster, Technopolis is Nigel Calder's exploration of the social control of the uses of science. Get your copy today. Technopolis is Nigel Calder's intricate review of the social control of the uses of science including chapters on cultural revolutions, parliament of fears, and "Democracy of the Second Kind."
Author: James Simme
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-08-02
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1134996217
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInnovation, Networks and Learning Regions? address key issues of understanding in contemporary economic geography and local economic policy making in cities and regions in the advanced economies. Developing the idea that innovation is the primary driving force behind economic change and growth, the international range of contributors stress the importance of knowledge and information as the 'raw materials' of innovation. They examine the ways in which these elements may be acquired and linked through networks, and demonstrate that there are empirical examples of innovative areas which do not have highly developed networks yet appear to be relatively successful in terms of local economic growth. In so doing, they raise crucial questions about the ways in which regions or localities might be described as truly 'learning' areas, and about the sustainability of future economic and quality of life success based on innovation and high-technology.
Author: Sheridan Tatsuno
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Prentice Hall Press
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780893038854
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sang-Chul Park
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 310
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Carola Hein
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006-09-27
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 1134341504
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers a cogent collection of case studies focusing on the history, present and future of decentralization in Japan.
Author: Kent E. Calder
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2021-04-13
Total Pages: 579
ISBN-13: 0691229473
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy does Japan, with its efficiency-oriented technocracy, periodically adopt welfare-oriented, economically inefficient domestic policies? In answering this question Kent Calder shows that Japanese policymakers respond to threats to the ruling party's preeminence by extending income compensation, entitlements, and subsidies, with market-oriented retrenchment coming as crisis subsides. "Quite simply the most ambitious and strongly argued interpretation of a key dimension of Japanese political life to appear in English this decade."--David Williams, Japan Times "Historically dense and conceptually rich.... [Forces] readers' attention to the domestic underpinnings of Japanese foreign policy."--Donald S. Zagoria, Foreign Affairs "Punctures the myth of Japan Inc. as a cool, rational monolith...."--Kathleen Newland, Millennium "A bold reinterpretation of Japanese politics that will force us to rethink many of our current assumptions and will influence our research agenda."--Steven R. Reed, Journal of Japanese Studies
Author: Ann R. Markusen
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 470
ISBN-13: 9780816633739
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver the past thirty years, transnational investment, trade, and government policies have encouraged the decentralization of national economies, disrupting traditional patterns of urban and regional growth. Many smaller cities -- such as Seattle, Washington; Campinas, Brazil; Oita, Japan; and Kumi, Korea -- have grown markedly faster than the largest metropolises. Dubbed here "second tier cities, " they are home to specialized industrial complexes that have taken root, provided significant job growth, and attracted mobile capital and labor. The culmination of an ambitious five-year, fourteen-city research project conducted by an international team of economics and geographers, Second Tier Cities examines the potential of these new regions to balance uneven regional development, create good, stable jobs, and moderate hyper-urbanization. Comparing across national borders, the contributors describe four types of second tier cities: Marshallian industrial districts, hub-and-spoke cities, satellite platforms, and government-anchored complexes. They find that both industrial and regional policies have been important contributors to the rise of second tier cities, though the former often trump the latter. Lessons for local, national, and international policymakers are drawn. The authors are critical of devolution and argue that it must be accompanied by strong labor and environmental standards and mechanisms to overcome differential regional resource endowments.
Author: David V. Gibson
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780847677580
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLeading experts from academia, government, and industry present information, ideas, programs and initiatives that accelerate the creation of smart cities, fast systems, and global networks.
Author: Peter W. G. Morris
Publisher: Thomas Telford
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 438
ISBN-13: 9780727716934
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book will undoubtedly become one of the classics of the project management literature ... There will be a growing need for project managers who can look beyond the internal processes of their projects to the organisational, technological and socio-economic contexts in which projects must be managed. A good starting point would be for all project managers to read this ... book.'- Construction Management and Economics.
Author: Herbert Hax
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-03-09
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 3662024950
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe highly developed industrial countries today have to face the challenge of accelerated structural change. The problems arising from this process are tackled in very different ways. In the public discussion the different approaches of Japan on the one side and of Western European countries on the other have received consider able attention. Structural change in its economic, social and political aspects has been the subject of the 8th German-Japanese Seminar on Economics and Social Sciences, held at Cologne from the 24th to the 27th of September, 1984. The tradition of German-Japanese Seminars on Economics and Social Sciences goes back to 1966, when the first meeting was held at Tokyo. Among the first participants were Dr. Hiromi Arizawa, Dr. Kazuo Okochi, both professors at the University of Tokyo, and Dr. Karl Hax, professor at Frankfurt University. The objective of all seminars, which have been held since, has been the analysis of eco nomic and social problems of immediate interest in both countries. The records of former seminars, which have been published partly in Japanese, partly in German throw light upon the shift of empha sis toward new problems which took place during aperiod of 18 years.
