Mastering a New Role: Shaping Technology Policy for National Economic Performance

1994 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 610 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald Fraser
Author(s):  
Terence Hogarth ◽  
Lynn Gambin

Debates about the need to increase investments in education and training in order to improve overall national economic performance quickly result in deliberations about who should pay for those investments. If it is the individual or the employer who are the principal beneficiaries, then there is an expectation that they should share the cost of the investment proportionate to the benefit they obtain. There are, however, a number of barriers which prevent employers and individuals making optimum levels of investment which inevitably means that the State needs to step into the breach. This chapter addresses what economics has to say about who should make the investment in training and how various barriers to those investments being made can be overcome.


2013 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 253-285 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siddharth Chandra ◽  
Nita Rudra

This analysis challenges claims that regime type determines national economic performance, and hypothesizes that the level of public deliberation, rather than broad categories of regime type, is the driver of national economic performance across political systems; specifically, that negotiations, disagreements, and compromises between decentralized decision-making partisans (e.g., citizens, business representatives, professional associations, labor, and public administrators) are the underlying causal mechanism explaining the non-monotonic relationship between different types of political system and economic performance. Countries with high levels of public deliberation more often experience stable growth outcomes, while other countries can make radical changes in economic policy with uncertain outcome. The variation in public deliberation within regime type is significant, especially amongst authoritarian regimes. One startling implication is that, in certain situations, impressive gains in economic growth can be achieved only at the expense of active negotiation and participation in the policy-making process.


2000 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 125-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Işık Özel

The typical view of the Turkish economy in the 1930s generally has been that it not only performed well while coping with the hardship brought about by the Great Depression, but that it also received a big boost from the state's industrialization program. This usually has been characterized as the success of the economic policies implemented by the new republic in the 1930s. These policies have been considered successful because the young republic not only recovered from the wounds it suffered during the turbulent transition period from the Ottoman Empire, but it also began to realize considerably higher growth rates-mainly in industry, but also across the national economic spectrum.


2009 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eduardo da Motta e Albuquerque

Sistema nacional de inovação é um conceito síntese da elaboração evolucionista (ou neo-schumpeteriana): ele expressa o complexo arranjo institucional que impulsionando o progresso tecnológico determina a riqueza das nações. Não é casual que a sua primeira referência explícita tenha sido publicada apenas em 1987, em um livro do próprio Freeman (Technology Policy and Economic Performance: Lessons from Japan).1 Como um conceito que sintetiza a elaboração (ampla) de uma abordagem teórica, sistema nacional de inovação é um conceito que está em aberto, enriquecendo-se dos avanços na elaboração teórica e contribuindo para apresentar novas questões para a reflexão coletiva. Esta abertura permite um diálogo com outras abordagens teóricas na economia e nas ciências sociais...


2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 116-130
Author(s):  
Gowsia Bashir ◽  
Mubashir Majih Bada

Much of the research conducted in India in the area of entrepreneurship considers the relation between entrepreneurship and economic performance. However, the latest business strategy that has shown tremendous development in business arena has been ignored altogether. The present paper provides a theoretical framework of the relationship between franchising business and national economic performance. The main aim of this paper is to present the capabilities of applying the concept of franchising in the development of entrepreneurship in SME sector so as to trigger-economic performance. This article argues that there is a need to treat franchising not just a mere business expansion option but a powerful SME development strategy that has a capability to change the economic fate of the country like entrepreneurship does. The first part deals with some aspects of the recent economics literature on the relationship between entrepreneurship, small business, and economic growth. The second part a conceptual framework presents the links between franchising and economic growth at different levels of aggregation. In particular, it gives a summary of some research works across the world.


2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 366-374 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadiia Shmygol ◽  
Olga Galtsova ◽  
Iryna Varlamova

The urgency of the research. Developing a new approach to economic and environmental problems grounded on the need to form new awareness and responsibility makes it necessary to conduct an in-depth study of the causes and nature of such problems at the current stage of the national economic development. The problem of developing and substantiating indices in countries such as the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States, is decided by special institutes. At the international level, numerous agencies, organizations, and committees such as WHO, UN, UNESCO, OECD, the World Bank, the European Commission, the Committee on Environmental Modelling (ISEM) are addressing this issue. For a comprehensive assessment of the sustainability of development, take into account the socio-economic and environmental indicators, as well as separate a group of institutional indicators. But for Ukraine, it is impossible to identify the links that require more attention and material support for raising the level of development both nationally and globally. Consequently, the method of calculating the index of sustainable development, taking into account the peculiarities of the functioning of the national economy, needs to be reconsidered and improved. Target setting. Both the state and the enterprises ignored the issues of environmental pollution, which gradually led to a threatening situation for the economy and the environment. Meanwhile, in the current context, economic and environmental problems remain unresolved and are increasingly deepening. Uninvestigated parts of general matters defining. Analysis of the resource potential revealed the urgent need to develop a clear and functioning mechanism of economic and environmental development, shaping the ecological awareness of the nation as a whole, managers and policy-makers, improving and transforming the existing regulatory framework and environmental legislation, as well as the corporate environmental management systems, in particular, based on the environmental performance index. The research objective. The goal of this article is to study the nature of economic and environmental problems of the industrial enterprises and to develop a model of the regional environmental and economic performance index aimed at reducing the environmental costs of the economic growth, ensuring the environmental sustainability of the region, and mitigating the harms in terms of public health. The statement of basic materials. There is evidence proving that the economic problems are mainly caused by the lack of attention to environmental issues. It is proved that to resolve the abovementioned problems, first, there is a need to develop the national economic and environmental awareness based on the national context, using international standards and introducing the best practices of international organizations. Conclusions. Thus, the strategic approach to ensure the sustainable socio-economic development of the country from the standpoint of the economic and environmental model is a transition from the implementation of separate measures to the development and implementation of an economic and environmental concept of the comprehensive public production rationalization.


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