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This book identifies the major factors responsible for effective transfer of information and human expertise from an advanced country or a multinational corporation to the developing world.
Technology Growth: Innovation, Change and Development
Technology Growth: Innovation, Change and Development
A medium of socio-economic change and a principal catalyst of development, technology induces changes in all aspects of human life around the world. In general, technology refers to the capabilities of human society to transform nature (that is, resources) into useful products for human consumption (Storper & Walker 1989). Technology as such is a man-made phenomenon that affects people, knowledge, human institutions and the environment, as well as economic, industrial and social systems. Not only does technology facilitate human activities, it provides its own structure for the generation of human ambition and the satisfaction of the human hunger for unlimited knowledge. Technology is thus fundamental to ‘development’, a dynamic process that brings about socio-economic ...
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