Search Results - subject:"APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY"

Reverse innovation : insights from western medical equipment manufacturers in China

Widenmayer, Bastian Ludwig Paul - 2012

In den letzten Jahren konnten Firmen aus Schwellenländern ihre Marktanteile sowohl in Industrie- als auch in Schwellenländern durch Reverse Innovation vergrössern. Reverse Innovation bezeichnet dabei schlichte, frugale Produkte, die in Schwellenländern entwickelt und auch in...

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Appropriate technology, human capital and development accounting

Chanda, Areendam; Farkas, Beatrice - 2012

-skill complementarity ; appropriate technology ; human capital …

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Building domestic capabilities in renewable energy : a case study of Egypt

Auktor, Georgeta Vidican - 2012

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Trade Openness and the Demand for Skills : Evidence from Turkish Microdata

Meschi, Elena F. - 2012

In this paper we report evidence on the relationship between trade openness, technology adoption and relative demand for skilled labour in the Turkish manufacturing sector, using firm-level data over the period 1980-2001. In a dynamic panel data setting using a unique database of 17,462 firms,...

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The Case for Open Source Appropriate Technology

Pearce, Joshua M. - 2012

source and appropriate technology aspects of OSAT to create a paradigm, in which anyone can both learn how to make and use … unacceptable level of human suffering and death. A solution to this general problem is the concept of open source appropriate … technology or OSAT, which refers to technologies that provide for sustainable development while being designed in the same …

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Industrial Structure, Appropriate Technology and Economic Growth in Less Developed Countries

Lin, Justin Yifu; Zhang, Pengfei - 2012

The authors develop an endogenous growth model that combines structural change with repeated product improvement. That is, the technologies in one sector of the model become not only increasingly capital-intensive, but also progressively productive over time. Application of the basic model to...

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Training, Adverse Selection and Appropriate Technology : Development and Growth in a Small Open Economy

Eicher, Theo S. - 2012

Recent diffusion models cannot explain why the success of technology diffusion depends so critically on developing countries’ human capital levels. This paper examines three main issues. First, we endogenize both appropriate technologies and human capital formation. Second, we refine the human...

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Context appropriate technologies for development : choosing for the future

Feige, David; Vonortas, Nicholas S. - In: Technological forecasting & social change : an … 119 (2017), pp. 219-226

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Going East : a framework for reverse innovation in SMEs

Dellermann, Dominik - In: Journal of business strategy 38 (2017) 3, pp. 30-39

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Global intermediation and logistics service providers

Saglietto, Laurence (ed.); Cezanne, Cecile (ed.) - 2017

"This book offers a broad overview of the major works on the field of global intermediation and service providers and advances in innovative research directions, building on different methods of research. Specifically, this book gathers relevant studies on intermediation and new service providers"--

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