Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.1504/ijtg.2020.10034409
Chandranshu Sinha, Neetu Bali
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Pub Date : 2017-01-01DOI: 10.1504/IJTG.2017.10010057
T. Machikita, M. Tsuji, Y. Ueki
Using data from an original and unique firm-level survey conducted in Southeast Asia, this paper examines the impacts of shifting from exploiting internal resources to exploring external information sources on product innovations and engaging foreign market for firms in emerging economies. This paper explores how the impacts of a shift toward external links vary across knowledge resources from trade and non-trade partners as well as across domestic and international partners. We also present findings regarding how the impacts of shifting to exploring external information sources vary between local firms and foreign affiliates. A 10% shift in resource allocation from internal resources to external links can generate a 1.4 percentage point increase in the likelihood of costly product innovation as well as a 1.9-3.8 percentage point increase in the probability of foreign market participation.
{"title":"Industrial upgrading with shifting resource toward external information sources","authors":"T. Machikita, M. Tsuji, Y. Ueki","doi":"10.1504/IJTG.2017.10010057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJTG.2017.10010057","url":null,"abstract":"Using data from an original and unique firm-level survey conducted in Southeast Asia, this paper examines the impacts of shifting from exploiting internal resources to exploring external information sources on product innovations and engaging foreign market for firms in emerging economies. This paper explores how the impacts of a shift toward external links vary across knowledge resources from trade and non-trade partners as well as across domestic and international partners. We also present findings regarding how the impacts of shifting to exploring external information sources vary between local firms and foreign affiliates. A 10% shift in resource allocation from internal resources to external links can generate a 1.4 percentage point increase in the likelihood of costly product innovation as well as a 1.9-3.8 percentage point increase in the probability of foreign market participation.","PeriodicalId":35474,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Technology and Globalisation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66777790","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-01-01DOI: 10.1504/IJTG.2017.088958
L. Pereira
Achieving global food security sustainably is a great challenge in the 21st century. This paper proposes that orphan crop innovation has the potential to help address this need. Using the case study of cassava bread in Nigeria, it demonstrates the barriers to and mechanisms for developing innovation systems for orphan crops. It finds that the goal-oriented search for cassava bread was successful, but the wider systemic weakness that its invention was supposed to address required further interventions. Furthermore, when the benefits of a specific product do not accrue directly to the end-users, but are felt further up the supply chain, it is difficult to incentivise the private sector to invest in these types of innovation because there is no clear target market. This requires collaboration and trust between public and private sector actors, which is especially important due to ethical concerns in bridging formal technological innovation with traditional knowledge systems.
{"title":"Cassava bread in Nigeria: the potential of 'orphan crop' innovation for building more resilient food systems","authors":"L. Pereira","doi":"10.1504/IJTG.2017.088958","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJTG.2017.088958","url":null,"abstract":"Achieving global food security sustainably is a great challenge in the 21st century. This paper proposes that orphan crop innovation has the potential to help address this need. Using the case study of cassava bread in Nigeria, it demonstrates the barriers to and mechanisms for developing innovation systems for orphan crops. It finds that the goal-oriented search for cassava bread was successful, but the wider systemic weakness that its invention was supposed to address required further interventions. Furthermore, when the benefits of a specific product do not accrue directly to the end-users, but are felt further up the supply chain, it is difficult to incentivise the private sector to invest in these types of innovation because there is no clear target market. This requires collaboration and trust between public and private sector actors, which is especially important due to ethical concerns in bridging formal technological innovation with traditional knowledge systems.","PeriodicalId":35474,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Technology and Globalisation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1504/IJTG.2017.088958","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66777326","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-01-01DOI: 10.1504/IJTG.2017.10010047
C. Scheel, D. Maranto
Some European countries have benefited from programs involving the creation of alliances of techno-socio-economic networks. In developing countries, their competitiveness based on industrial clusters are non-existent because of their poor regional enabling conditions required for assembling complex organisational interactions. To help alleviate this situation, a 'wealth creation based on innovation and enabling technologies' model (WIT) was developed. Within this framework, the economic growth is articulated by a systemic enabling environment, capable of supporting network economies, industrial ecosystems and regional innovation systems, with a purpose: to transform regions with scarce resources, hostile conditions and poor associativity into poles of regional attractiveness and competitive clusters of companies capable of producing high economic value strongly inter-related with the social and environmental capital in their communities. A more recently version of the WIT model, was developed, which adds sustainable wealth creation, called SWIT, which articulates all the stakeholders of the biosphere system of capitals.
{"title":"Wealth creation in developing countries: linking techno-economic-social networks","authors":"C. Scheel, D. Maranto","doi":"10.1504/IJTG.2017.10010047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJTG.2017.10010047","url":null,"abstract":"Some European countries have benefited from programs involving the creation of alliances of techno-socio-economic networks. In developing countries, their competitiveness based on industrial clusters are non-existent because of their poor regional enabling conditions required for assembling complex organisational interactions. To help alleviate this situation, a 'wealth creation based on innovation and enabling technologies' model (WIT) was developed. Within this framework, the economic growth is articulated by a systemic enabling environment, capable of supporting network economies, industrial ecosystems and regional innovation systems, with a purpose: to transform regions with scarce resources, hostile conditions and poor associativity into poles of regional attractiveness and competitive clusters of companies capable of producing high economic value strongly inter-related with the social and environmental capital in their communities. A more recently version of the WIT model, was developed, which adds sustainable wealth creation, called SWIT, which articulates all the stakeholders of the biosphere system of capitals.","PeriodicalId":35474,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Technology and Globalisation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66777393","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-07-25DOI: 10.1504/IJTG.2015.077873
E. A. Shanab
E-democracy is becoming an important topic for research after the global boom in the internet and the social media influence on societies. Using electronic channels for different aspects of democracy is becoming a necessity more than a luxury. This research tries to investigate the influence of e-government on the democratic process. E-democracy is conceptually linked to e-government, where previous research indicated such inclusion. This research proposed a framework that depicts the dimensions of e-government as a research domain. Also, utilising secondary data from two distinct sources of archival reports, this research tried to build a model for predicting the democratic level in a country (represented by the Economist Intelligence Unit democracy index) using the e-government readiness index (represented by United Nations e-government readiness index). Results indicated that a significant relationship exists between UN-EGRI and EIU-DI for 163 countries of the world. Conclusions and future work are stated at the end.
{"title":"E-democracy: the fruit of e-government","authors":"E. A. Shanab","doi":"10.1504/IJTG.2015.077873","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJTG.2015.077873","url":null,"abstract":"E-democracy is becoming an important topic for research after the global boom in the internet and the social media influence on societies. Using electronic channels for different aspects of democracy is becoming a necessity more than a luxury. This research tries to investigate the influence of e-government on the democratic process. E-democracy is conceptually linked to e-government, where previous research indicated such inclusion. This research proposed a framework that depicts the dimensions of e-government as a research domain. Also, utilising secondary data from two distinct sources of archival reports, this research tried to build a model for predicting the democratic level in a country (represented by the Economist Intelligence Unit democracy index) using the e-government readiness index (represented by United Nations e-government readiness index). Results indicated that a significant relationship exists between UN-EGRI and EIU-DI for 163 countries of the world. Conclusions and future work are stated at the end.","PeriodicalId":35474,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Technology and Globalisation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1504/IJTG.2015.077873","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66777706","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2015-01-01DOI: 10.1504/IJTG.2015.077882
H. Sun
The successful development of China's town and village enterprises (TVEs) has significantly absorbed enormous rural labour surplus during the agricultural transformation and the process of urbanisation between 1984 and 2014. TVEs played an important role in poverty reduction and increasing income for rural labours in China, when markets were dysfunctional and institutions were changing during the 1980s and 1990s. Assessments have concluded that Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has similar challenges and conditions with respect to agricultural transformation and managing urbanisation to those of China in the 1980s-1990s. This research uses interviews and case studies gathered mainly in China in 2014. The research finds that dramatic development of TVEs helped China to get rid of the development dilemma of a dualistic economic structure in rural and urban areas, which can bring valuable lessons for SSA. The definition of TVEs in this article has been extended to inclusive local enterprise organisations. This research suggests feasible policies to promote local social enterprises with inclusive development entrepreneurship in SSA.
{"title":"China's town and village enterprises and its implications for Sub-Saharan Africa","authors":"H. Sun","doi":"10.1504/IJTG.2015.077882","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJTG.2015.077882","url":null,"abstract":"The successful development of China's town and village enterprises (TVEs) has significantly absorbed enormous rural labour surplus during the agricultural transformation and the process of urbanisation between 1984 and 2014. TVEs played an important role in poverty reduction and increasing income for rural labours in China, when markets were dysfunctional and institutions were changing during the 1980s and 1990s. Assessments have concluded that Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has similar challenges and conditions with respect to agricultural transformation and managing urbanisation to those of China in the 1980s-1990s. This research uses interviews and case studies gathered mainly in China in 2014. The research finds that dramatic development of TVEs helped China to get rid of the development dilemma of a dualistic economic structure in rural and urban areas, which can bring valuable lessons for SSA. The definition of TVEs in this article has been extended to inclusive local enterprise organisations. This research suggests feasible policies to promote local social enterprises with inclusive development entrepreneurship in SSA.","PeriodicalId":35474,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Technology and Globalisation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1504/IJTG.2015.077882","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66777260","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2015-01-01DOI: 10.1504/IJTG.2015.077885
L. Casano
The article discusses the experience of the doctoral school in human capital formation and labour relations at the University of Bergamo (Italy), co-promoted by the Association of International and Comparative Studies in Labour and Industrial Relations (ADAPT) and by CQIA (Teaching and Learning Quality Centre of the University of Bergamo). Both organisations have shown commitment to the innovative nature of industrial PhDs, well ahead of what was laid down recently in Italian legislation, which introduces industrial doctorates, but raises a number of questions concerning the extension and scope of this new typology in the national context. The approach adopted by the doctoral program stood out since its establishment as being similar to that used in other European or non-European countries where work-based doctoral programs have been established for a long time. The article explores institutional and methodological pre-conditions for the establishment of such an innovative path in the Italian context, exploring also the features of innovative doctoral programs based on apprenticeship schemes and their commonalities with the industrial PhD scheme.
{"title":"When research moves up regulation: a trailblazing experience of industrial PhD in Italy","authors":"L. Casano","doi":"10.1504/IJTG.2015.077885","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJTG.2015.077885","url":null,"abstract":"The article discusses the experience of the doctoral school in human capital formation and labour relations at the University of Bergamo (Italy), co-promoted by the Association of International and Comparative Studies in Labour and Industrial Relations (ADAPT) and by CQIA (Teaching and Learning Quality Centre of the University of Bergamo). Both organisations have shown commitment to the innovative nature of industrial PhDs, well ahead of what was laid down recently in Italian legislation, which introduces industrial doctorates, but raises a number of questions concerning the extension and scope of this new typology in the national context. The approach adopted by the doctoral program stood out since its establishment as being similar to that used in other European or non-European countries where work-based doctoral programs have been established for a long time. The article explores institutional and methodological pre-conditions for the establishment of such an innovative path in the Italian context, exploring also the features of innovative doctoral programs based on apprenticeship schemes and their commonalities with the industrial PhD scheme.","PeriodicalId":35474,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Technology and Globalisation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1504/IJTG.2015.077885","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66777312","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2015-01-01DOI: 10.1504/IJTG.2015.077876
A. Inzelt, L. Csonka
In the 21st century, a highly skilled workforce has become one of the resources seen as essential to support the knowledge economies. This paper attempts to draw a picture of the career and mobility of PhD graduates in the Social Sciences and the Humanities (SSH). International trends can be seen in the Hungarian job market for SSH PhDs, and the non-academic sector has also appeared, but its demand for SSH graduates is very limited. According to our findings, the demand for knowledge is slowly changing in the non-academic spheres of society. A strong feature of the current PhD education process is that the majority of students enter their courses with no work experience after their Masters degree. However, for non-academic jobs it would be more useful if they have some years of experience. Our empirical analysis has combined quantitative and qualitative information for discussing individual careers.
{"title":"The careers of PhDs in Hungary: in the social sciences and humanities","authors":"A. Inzelt, L. Csonka","doi":"10.1504/IJTG.2015.077876","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJTG.2015.077876","url":null,"abstract":"In the 21st century, a highly skilled workforce has become one of the resources seen as essential to support the knowledge economies. This paper attempts to draw a picture of the career and mobility of PhD graduates in the Social Sciences and the Humanities (SSH). International trends can be seen in the Hungarian job market for SSH PhDs, and the non-academic sector has also appeared, but its demand for SSH graduates is very limited. According to our findings, the demand for knowledge is slowly changing in the non-academic spheres of society. A strong feature of the current PhD education process is that the majority of students enter their courses with no work experience after their Masters degree. However, for non-academic jobs it would be more useful if they have some years of experience. Our empirical analysis has combined quantitative and qualitative information for discussing individual careers.","PeriodicalId":35474,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Technology and Globalisation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1504/IJTG.2015.077876","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66777717","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2015-01-01DOI: 10.1504/IJTG.2015.077884
F. Kitagawa
The mobility of individuals represents a crucial mechanism through which knowledge flows across organisations, in the labour market and between places. There has been an increasing policy attention to the mobility of scientific researchers at various stages of their careers, especially for doctoral students and doctoral graduates in bridging the gaps between science and innovation closer. This paper focuses on one of the collaborative doctoral training schemes between academia and industry - a case of the Engineering Doctorate (EngD) scheme in the UK as a distinct model from the traditional PhD. The paper presents the mobility of EngD graduates based on the illustrative case studies of three Industrial Doctorate Centres (IDCs) for the period between 2001 and 2014. The EngD graduates' career paths and mobility suggests knowledge dissemination and exploitation with diverse spatial implication - the talents are collocated in specific industry locations with local, national and international knowledge flows, skills, R&D and innovation activities.
{"title":"Crossing boundaries between science and innovation - career mobility and impacts of graduates of the UK Industrial Doctorate Centres","authors":"F. Kitagawa","doi":"10.1504/IJTG.2015.077884","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJTG.2015.077884","url":null,"abstract":"The mobility of individuals represents a crucial mechanism through which knowledge flows across organisations, in the labour market and between places. There has been an increasing policy attention to the mobility of scientific researchers at various stages of their careers, especially for doctoral students and doctoral graduates in bridging the gaps between science and innovation closer. This paper focuses on one of the collaborative doctoral training schemes between academia and industry - a case of the Engineering Doctorate (EngD) scheme in the UK as a distinct model from the traditional PhD. The paper presents the mobility of EngD graduates based on the illustrative case studies of three Industrial Doctorate Centres (IDCs) for the period between 2001 and 2014. The EngD graduates' career paths and mobility suggests knowledge dissemination and exploitation with diverse spatial implication - the talents are collocated in specific industry locations with local, national and international knowledge flows, skills, R&D and innovation activities.","PeriodicalId":35474,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Technology and Globalisation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1504/IJTG.2015.077884","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66777271","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2015-01-01DOI: 10.1504/IJTG.2015.077869
H. Schmitz
The rising powers have become the default movers and shakers in the global economy, including the green economy. This article shows how China has become more powerful in renewable energy and examines the implications for the green transformation. China exerts strong downward pressure on the costs of the transformation but the effects on the speed of this transformation are not yet clear. The paper suggests that a focus on public-private-civic alliances within and across countries is essential for understanding and fostering progress in accelerating the green transformation.
{"title":"How does China's rise affect the green transformation?","authors":"H. Schmitz","doi":"10.1504/IJTG.2015.077869","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJTG.2015.077869","url":null,"abstract":"The rising powers have become the default movers and shakers in the global economy, including the green economy. This article shows how China has become more powerful in renewable energy and examines the implications for the green transformation. China exerts strong downward pressure on the costs of the transformation but the effects on the speed of this transformation are not yet clear. The paper suggests that a focus on public-private-civic alliances within and across countries is essential for understanding and fostering progress in accelerating the green transformation.","PeriodicalId":35474,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Technology and Globalisation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1504/IJTG.2015.077869","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66777671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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