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 [...]
Archive for the ‘Technology Policy’ Category
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 [...]
Higher Education Accreditation
Posted in Higher Education on June 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has established a Portal on Higher Education Institutions that is now available online. The Portal provides access to higher education institutions sanctioned either by government or other competent authorities and general information about higher education, accreditation, quality assurance and related subjects in various countries. At present, [...]
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, [...]
Technological Determinism Vs. Social Constructivism
Posted in Technology Policy on February 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In simple terms , Technology shapes or determines a society’s culture, structure and history or a society’s culture, politics and socio-economic factors determine the paths for innovation and technology development.
Although these questions and theories mentioned in the subject are fundamental questions for students of S&T and its relationship to Society/Social Sciences but I feel these are [...]
Technology Foresight
Posted in Technology Foresight, Technology Policy on March 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
These thoughts about Technology Foresight Concept/Programmes were collected from a section of the paper: J.S. Metcalfe, “Science policy and technology policy in a competitive economy”, International Journal of Social Economics, Vol 24. No 7/8/9, 1997, pp 723-740. A systematic means of assessing those scientific and technological develoments which could have a strong impact in industrial [...]
"Let’s avoid risk!"; Program Implementation & not Policies only are the culprit
Posted in Pakistan, Technology Policy on March 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
How have we reached this sorry state? Although there is no use crying over the spilt milk but wise are those who learn from failures of past. It is not that there were not people who had not identified, prioritized and designed good policies and programs in all sectors, it is that these were not [...]
