Managing Technology Innovation


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Technology in the world today has contributed to promote organisational competitiveness and national development. But most developing countries have not substantially benefited from science and technology, hence their underdevelopment and poverty. They could not harness and manage their scientific and technological innovations and use their human and material resources to meet basic needs of their people, reduce socio-economic inequalities, create employment opportunities and improve national security. The achievement of these is considered in this book to be dependent on provisions of conducive environments for effective human resource management for scientific and technological innovations. Human resource management concepts and practices were used to evolve frameworks and processes for the generation, acquisition, adoption, and transfer of technology, depending on the objectives of different countries and organisations.







East-West Technology Transfer


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A wide-ranging review of the issues and opportunities in the transfer of technology between advanced industrial countries and the countries of the Former Soviet Union. A major theme is the complex socio-technological aspects of the process, together with the related human factors and leadership requirements. The book presents a very open exchange of views on the difficult obstacles that the countries of the Former Soviet Union need to overcome and the market economy countries of the west need to understand. Issues of patents, intellectual property, personnel training, reorganization of formerly centralized economies, incentives, information exchange, and possible models for effective transfer are highlighted, together with specific examples and discussions of the most up-to-date knowledge about technology transfer. Audience: All individuals and organizations concerned with the transfer of technology, particularly those interested in a candid appraisal of the issues and opportunities for the transfer of technology and industrial and scientific cooperation between industrialized market economies and the countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia.










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Strategies for Attracting, Maintaining, and Balancing a Mature Workforce


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There is no end in sight as the Fourth Industrial Revolution becomes more prevalent across the world. Artificial intelligence (AI) is making it imperative that machines and technology be integrated within the workplace. As the workforce ages, there has to be a way to acquire the tacit and explicit knowledge of these workers. The fields of human resource development and workforce development must lead in efforts to train and develop these workers for continuous technological change. Strategies for Attracting, Maintaining, and Balancing a Mature Workforce is an essential reference source that examines efforts for engaging, retaining, and utilizing an aging workforce in a workplace that is increasingly becoming more technology-centered and provides reskilling and upskilling strategies to address the skills gaps. The title compiles vital human resource and workforce development strategies that assist these professionals with helping all employees at all levels within the workforce attain work, keep their jobs, and grow in their development to assist others. Featuring research on topics such as organizational culture, career learning, and agile workforce, this book is ideally designed for managers, executives, recruiters, hiring professionals, managing directors, human resources professionals, business researchers, industry professionals, academicians, and students.




Economic Restructuring, Technology Transfer and Human Resource Development


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Based on case studies in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, and India, the authors provide a comparative analysis of these countries' economies and their respective experiences with structural adjustment and financial reforms, highlighting the importance of "human resource" capacities and skill levels, infrastructure development, and investment policies in increasing international competitiveness. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR




Economic Restructuring, Technology Transfer and Human Resource Development


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This is a completely revised edition of a unique and successful book which integrates the inter-related issues of economic development, transfer of technology, and the preparedness of countries and enterprises to receive and assimilate new technologies. Based on a first-hand study, the authors provide a comprehensive and comparative analysis of Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and India, and discuss the respective experiences of these four economies with structural adjustment and financial reforms. In this new edition the authors take into account the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis and outline the possible steps that can be taken to prevent such occurrences in the future. They advocate some additional measures to encourage technological growth and development while providing the most recent statistics./-//-/This book will be an indispensable resource for policy-makers, planners, HRD managers, CEOs and all those involved with technology transfer, as also for students of economics, business management and human resource development.