the process of “mak[ing] changes in something established, especially by introducing new methods, ideas, or products. According to the OECD Oslo Manual, “innovation is the implementation of a new or significantly improved product (good or service), or process, a new marketing method, or a new organizational method in business practices, workplace organization or external relations”. The word implementation plays a key role in order to determine what is innovative and what is not. For example, a new
institutions - poverty alleviation - requires a holistic and in-depth understanding of the interplay between economic, social, cultural extracts of the developmental process. Understanding the problems, and the cause-effect relationships, is critical for a holistic view of development. There will always be problems behind the problems. For example, some of the commonly cited 'problems' of developing countries, such as high population growth, poverty and very poor people, pollution and bad local environments
The film “Consuming Kids, the commercialization of childhood” shows us the ways the millionaire-marketing machine sells children and their parents everything from junk food to violent video games and useless television shows. It demonstrates how these types of toys often make children aggressive and fussy. For example, one of the authors, Jeremy Earp, explains how the movie 'Star Wars’ promotes and advertises lightsabers' and weapon toys as attractive for children. In the ‘Consuming Kids’ film, we
Technology revolution There are more than one definition of technology revolution; one of them is to jump from agricultural to an industrial nation, but technology revolution is the period of time at which one technology is replaced by another new technology , this cause a dramatic change in social production as well as content of labor. Technological revolution creates the conditions for a fundamental change in the nature of production and in the functions of the main productive force, the workers
Several definitions have been proffered for innovation. According to Business dictionary, innovation is the process of translating an idea or invention into good or service that creates value or for which customers will pay. Seaden (2001) on the other hand, identify innovation as the implementation of significantly new processes, products or management approaches in order to increase efficiency of an organization. Dulaimi (2005) define innovation as the generation, development, and implementation
proportion of area under different crops at a particular period of time. Cropping pattern in India is determined mainly by natural factors like rainfall, climate and soil conditions. However technological factors have also played an important role. For example, in the mid-1960’s, area under wheat increased significantly with the adoption of high-yielding varities of seeds in selected areas of the country. The government policy on subsidized agriculture input and support prices in output affected the area
Banks in China have been state-owned throughout the time, but since 1993 the government started a commercialization process of banks in which process the Central Bank of China has become an independent player (Baek 2005). As in the case of Malaysia, China also used the advantage of backwardness in order to promote technological and industrial upgrading. The term backwardness, shaped by Alexander Gerschenkron, points out the benefit of a country that economically lags behind to learn from developed
for coming here today. I am an investment manager. It is my honors to be here to present a talk on the topic about “World-changing technologies”. Nowadays, technology is rapidly changing and become very advanced. Most of us are depend on technology and use various technologies to improve our life quality. Today, I will introduce the cutting-edge science and technologies behind the businesses of three companies in food, media and communication and medicine and public health to all of you. The first
procedural cost Particularly in India for the promotion of small industries they are conducting certain training programs and support initiatives at national level organised by some of the central government institutions like National Science & Technology Entrepreneurship development, National Institutions for Entrepreneurship and small Business Development. Some of the state level organisations like ALEAP have also supported the centre for Entrepreneurship Development, Detroit of India which included
finds that they have to rely on efficient supply chains, or system, to effectively compete in the worldwide market and network economy. Through the precedent decades, globalization, outsourcing and information knowledge have facilitate many group, example as Dell and Hewlett Packard, to effectively operate solid joint supply networks in which every specialized company partner focus on simply a few key strategic actions (Scott, 1993). so, the choice of an internal management control structure is known