Research Catalog

Title

Technology and innovation in the international economy / edited by Charles Cooper.

Publication

Aldershot, Hants, England ; Brookfield, Vt., USA : E. Elgar ; Tokyo, Japan : United Nations University Press, 1994.

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Additional Authors

Cooper, Charles, 1936-2005

Description

xi, 239 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

• New technologies will have an increasing effect on prospects for development and growth in the world economy. Technology and Innovation in the International Economy contains extensive and detailed assessments of two key areas of technological innovation which present both a threat and an opportunity for developing countries: microelectronics and biotechnology.
• The two major review essays - Jeffrey James on microelectronic technology and Martin Fransman on biotechnology - assess the impact of these new technologies on production, trade, employment and welfare in developing countries.
• The introduction by Charles Cooper deals with recent advances in the economics of innovation and diffusion of new technologies, and attempts to build a bridge between the study of technology in the industrial sectors of developed countries and the type of technology policy needed in the developing countries.
• Policy makers, researchers and students will welcome the clarity and breadth of this important volume which contains much original analysis and detailed information on a major issue confronting developing and developed nations alike.

Subject

• Geschichte 1970-1994
• Technological innovations > Developing countries
• Technological innovations > Economic aspects > Developing countries
• Technological innovations > Social aspects > Developing countries
• 83.62 economics of technology
• Pays en développement
• Innovations technologiques
• Aspects socio-économiques
• Technological innovations
• Technological innovations > Economic aspects
• Technological innovations > Social aspects
• Biotechnologie
• Mikroelektronik
• Neue Technologie
• Technischer Fortschritt
• Weltwirtschaft
• Wirtschaftsentwicklung
• Technische vernieuwing
• Developing countries
• Entwicklungsländer

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Includes bibliographical references and index. ℓℓ 15 505 1 Relevance of innovation studies ot developing countries / Charles Cooper -- Biotechnology: generation, diffusion, and policy / Martin Fransman -- Microelectronics and the third world / Jeffrey James.

ISBN

• 1858980275
• 9781858980270

LCCN

93039685

OCLC

• ocm29184788
• 29184788
• SCSB-2010469

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library