The 1993 World Bank Report titled on the subject and its intense criticism on epmirical data and explanations had remained at the centre of debate for a while in mid 1990s. Special attention remained on the government intervention versus free markets for forming industrial policies or sector specific regulation and controls. Where earlier criticsms had brought out [...]
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East Asian Miracle
Posted in Competitiveness, Technology Policy on January 12, 2009 | 2 Comments »
National strategies for technology adoption in the industrial sector
Posted in Competitiveness, Technology Policy on January 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The subject paper of Sanjaya Lall (2001) was the background paper for UNDP’s Human Development Report 2001 and is the one which presents an excellent review and reference for hi-level technology policy development in developing countires. It builds mainly on data from his 2000 paper referenced below, but concretizes his previous theoretical contributions on technological capability and catching up [...]
Posted in Competitiveness, Management of Technology on January 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
You can read my two cents in this article run by CIOPakistan during Nov, 2008.
Outsource or Inhouse
November 21, 2008
What role does cost play in the decision to choose one strategy over the other?
Here’s the situation so far: there is a global economic crisis for which companies need to cut costs; the US elections are taking [...]
Standardization in a networked world…
Posted in Competitiveness, Management of Technology on July 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
What are the strategic options and business models that are going to work? Prof. Rebecca Henderson at MIT talks about ”Dynamics of the strategic space” in this video lecture.
http://mitworld.mit.edu/play/272/
I found it pretty interesting and useful to develop my understanding about linking firm strategy to standardization in the ICT domains. The relavant slides are also avialable from her Technology [...]
If the world is flat then it is a multi storey world.
Posted in Competitiveness, Geo-Politics & Economics on June 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Thomas L Friedman’s 2005 book title “The world is flat” is too good to be true. He insisits that a level playing field is being offered by the forces of globalization. In his article for NYT he quoted as oen of the exmaples where InfoSys can access its global supply chain within a video conferencing room and threatening to provide every service [...]
Future of e-Gov and Market Rigidities affecting e-Gov!
Posted in Competitiveness, Futures, Technology Policy on March 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Institute of Prospective Technology Studies (IPTS) is one of the seven research institutions of EU JRC. Two of their publications of e-Government caught my eye for very interesting data, arguments and implications, although I was looking for some other things at that instance. I am uploading the same for those interested.
The Future of e-Government; An exploration of ICT-driven [...]
2008 Conferences in Innovation, MOT, S&T Policy, ICT Policy
Posted in Competitiveness, Management of Technology, Science and Technology, Technology Policy on March 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »
These are some of the confernces in which i am interested. I will keep on updating and adding to the following, as I find time.
STI Indicators for Policy. Addressing New Demands from Stakeholders on May 28-30, 2008, at Oslo Norway by PRIME hosted by Oslo University College
EuroCPR 2008: Innovations in communications:The role of users, industry, and policy, [...]
The State of Pakistan’s Competitiveness 2007 by CSF
Posted in Competitiveness, Pakistan on April 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
At the moment, Pakistan is low on global competitiveness rankings yet the positive turn-out of the economy over last years signal a strong potential to raise the same. This has been reflected well by improvement in Business Competitive Rankings.
Recently, CSF has published “The State of Pakistan’s Competitiveness 2007” using the World Economic Forum (WEF) publications [...]
