Abstract: 'The main objective of this paper is to provide greater understanding of the systems
of innovation approach as a flexible and useful conceptual framework for spatial innovation
analysis. It presents an effort to develop some missing links and to decrease the conceptual
noise often present in the discussions on national innovation systems. The paper specifies
elements and relations that seem to be essential to the conceptual core of the framework and
argues that there is no a prior more...
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Starting from a review of basic economic concepts, this blog posting considers alternatives for promoting inventions of appropriate technologies serving the poor and the problem of disseminating such inventions widely. John Daly, Thoughts About K4D, August 7. 2008.
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This website describes the efforts on the International Agricultural Research Centers and their coordinating body to preserve biodiversity, especially the genetic diversity of important crop species. Eleven Centers together maintain over 650,000 samples of crop, forage and agroforestry genetic resources in the public domain. The website describes these activities.
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'The growth of U.S. trade with China since China entered the World Trade Organization in 2001 has had a devastating effect on U.S. workers and the domestic economy. Between 2001 and 2007 2.3 million jobs were lost or displaced, including 366,000 in 2007 alone. New demographic research shows that, even when re-employed in non-traded industries, the 2.3 million workers displaced by the increase in China trade deficits in this period have lost an average $8,146 per worker/year. In 2007, these l more...
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'The movement of business activity from developed economies to developing economies—commonly called offshoring—has become the focus of heated debates. Behind these debates lies a pivotal question of scale: How much business activity and how many jobs are at stake? Official statistics are nearly silent, and private-sector researchers vary widely in their estimates of the number of U.S. jobs that have moved offshore, will move offshore, or could move offshore. In an effort to address this gap more...
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On May 1, 2008, the Regulations on Government Disclosure of Information officially took effect, making China one of 70 countries worldwide that has enacted comprehensive freedom of information (FOI) legislation. The objective of the Chinese regulation specifically is 'to ensure that citizens, legal persons and other organizations can obtain government information by lawful means and increase government transparency.'
While this new FOI legislation covers all branches of government, the env more...
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The scale of this 'brain drain' is staggering. As demographer B. Lindsay Lowell and geographers Allan Findlay and Emma Stewart point out in their research, nearly one in 10 tertiary-educated adults (those with some university or post-secondary schooling) born in the developing world — between a third and half of the developing world's science and technology personnel — now live in the developed world.
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