by Scott Shane (2006)
"Despite a wealth of efforts that examine separately the role entrepreneurs and universities play in economic development, no systematic effort has been made to examine the role universities play in promoting economic development through entrepreneurship. This book fills that gap, focusing on policy aspects of government-university partnerships with a discussion both of best practices and problematic strategies."--Jacket.
J.C. Sharma, I.P. Sharma, J.N. Raina
Contributed articles presented at the Workshop on Catchments Treatment of River Valley and Flood Prone Areas in Himachal Pradesh held at College of Foresty, Dr YS Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Solan on March 24, 2007.
Peter Evans
In recent years, debate on the state's economic role has too often devolved into diatribes against intervention. Peter Evans questions such simplistic views, offering a new vision of why state involvement works in some cases and produces disasters in others. To illustrate, he looks at how state agencies, local entrepreneurs, and transnational corporations shaped the emergence of computer industries in Brazil, India, and Korea during the seventies and eighties. Evans starts with the idea that states vary in the way they are organized and tied to society. In some nations, like Zaire, the state is predatory, ruthlessly extracting and providing nothing of value in return. In others, like Korea, it is developmental, promoting industrial transformation. In still others, like Brazil and India, it is in-between, sometimes helping, sometimes hindering. Evans's years of comparative research on the successes and failures of state involvement in the process of industrialization have here been crafted into a persuasive and entertaining work, which demonstrates that successful state action requires an understanding of its own limits, a realistic relationship to the global economy, and the combination of coherent internal organization and close links to society that Evans calls "embedded autonomy."
P. Loucopoulos, ed
"The growing demand for information systems of ever-increasing size, scope, and complexity has highlighted the benefits that may be accrued from approaches which recognize the interrelationships between different technological strands in the field of information systems. Typical examples of these areas include: system development methods, CASE, requirements engineering, database design, and re-use. The CAiSE series of conferences provides the forum for the exchange of results and ideas within these different technological spheres from a single perspective, namely that of information systems development and management. The 1992 conference, the fourth in the series, continues this tradition. This volume collects the papers accepted for the conference, with authors from 16 countries covering a wide range of topics including: object-oriented analysis and design methods, the development process and product support, requirements engineering, re-use, design approaches, and deductive approaches."--PUBLISHER'S WEBSITE.
William E. Nothdurft
"In the battle for global economic competitiveness, America's small and medium-sized businesses are at a significant disadvantage. Every major industrial nation in the world has developed a well-integrated system of public and private sector export assistance programs aimed specifically at the small and medium-sized businesses that make up the foundation of any economy. Every nation, that is, except the United States. Federal and state agencies and private organizations routinely urge small firms to export, but no coherent strategies guide these exhortations, and the resources committed to the task are paltry compared with the investments made by our competitors."--BOOK JACKET. "In this groundbreaking book, William Nothdurft explores the principles that underlie European programs to help small and medium-sized firms export, and presents practical, policy-oriented guidance for creating high-yield export assistance programs in tough economic times."--BOOK JACKET. "In a fresh, and compelling style, Going Global addresses five key questions at the heart of the export challenge: Why don't more small and medium-sized firms export? Who should be helped with exporting? What forms of assistance work best under which conditions? Where and by whom should assistance be delivered? And how should export assistance be financed? Having analyzed some of Europe's most innovative public and private sector initiatives, Nothdurft presents ten practical lessons for creating high-yield export assistance programs. He explores each lesson in detail and presents examples of programs under way in Europe to illustrate each lesson."--BOOK JACKET. "In concluding, Nothdurft urges government and industry officials to think strategically about trade development and begin building a public-private export assistance infrastructure capable of meeting the global trade challenge head-on."--BOOK JACKET.