The Chinese economy does still not qualify as demand-driven economy. Its growth is based on investment. In fact successive waves of investment have emerged during the eighties and produced a piling-up of productive systems. A wave of small national enterprises and entrepreneurs, a second large...

This article examines the creation of industrial enterprises and the basic models of firm-level technological learning behaviour of the last 20 years in China. Six case studies of technological learning and links to external sources of know-how from the South of China in the Pearl River Delta...

The article examines the capacity of the Tunisian National system of innovation to resist the political, economic, and social changes affecting the country. After reviewing the theoretical issues, we observe that even if the system continued to function practically unchanged, proof of a certain...

In the last years we can observe a change in the analysis of technology transfers to developing countries. Instead of examining the formal and legal aspects of the sellers and buyers of technology, enfasis is given to absorption capacity of the technology "receptors", that is their capcity to...

This article will revise recent developments in the innovation policies in the case of Tunisia and Morocco as derived from the ESTIME project, which, among other things, has been instrumental in collecting systematically the policies around the Mediterranean partners of the EU (Arvanitis, 2006)....

This article summarizes observations on the technological and innovation level of four Mediterranean countries (Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia). Although these concepts are still controversial, we try to examine the specific issue of the governance of innovation policies. This approach is most...

This article is about factory regimes and more particularly about changes in factory regimes in East Asia. Its point of departure is Burawoy’s early and highly influential contribution to the understanding of factory regimes (Burawoy, 1985), which has very often been associated with the...

Crop straw gasification technologies are the most promising biomass gasification technologies and have great potential to be further developed in China. However, the commercialization development of gasification technology in China is slow. In this paper, the technical reliability and...