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Modern cities are at the heart of economic growth, driving innovation and delivering a breeding ground for culture. With greater size comes enhanced efficiency, but for large cities to maximise this potential they need to attract innovative people and investment to make the ideas happen. They need to find a way to leverage the benefits big cities bring, while managing the inevitable challenges they...
Engineering education in the developing world is not only necessary for economic growth, intellectual development and innovation, but is also fundamental for national security and short and long-term sustainability. Successful engineering institutions and productive engineers are not only necessary to create knowledge based economies in developing nations, but they are also important players in maintaining...
By examining the impacts of the transformation generated by the ??information society?? on our country within the globalization process, it is argued that the ??new economy?? fact and the ??information society?? have created an ??e-transformation?? in strategic aspects. Knowledge, learning and innovation factors have been seen in the studies of economic growth and development by the middle of 1990...
How to appraise the contribution rate of the human capital and science and technology advancement to economic growth, most of researchers have used new growth theory at present. But in this paper, there is the formidable problem no matter in theory or on the method. Takes Korea as an example, this paper approaches the contribution rate of the human capital and science and technology advancement to...
Services science has emerged as the key factor in developed economies as it becomes the main driver of productivity and economic growth. With the evolution of consumer and business processes, it has become a large part of economy. Services have become the main differentiator guided by the principle that every business has to be a service business in order to survive and compete effectively. The explosion...
Mexico is among the set of countries that look at Science, Technology and Innovation a fundamental mechanism to support competitiveness, reach higher levels of economic growth and increase the social welfare of its citizens. This paper provides a description of the main policy initiatives to foster innovation in Mexico. Afterward, some characteristics of innovation practices in private-sector businesses...
This paper firstly introduces the concept of ldquoknowledge filterrdquo and divides the growth of science parks into innovation and commercialization of knowledge, university-industry relations as well as external factors of industry agglomeration and spillover effect. The empirical study based on the panel data model is applied to test contribution of each factor concerned with Chinapsilas science...
Over the past six years, the School of Engineering and Computer Science (ECS) at Baylor University has designed, developed, and successfully implemented an international study abroad program aimed at giving engineering and computer science students an opportunity to study abroad while accruing course credit that counts toward their degree plans. For the past two years this program also integrated...
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