Globalization of Technology

Edited by : Prasada Reddy,

Research Policy Institute, Lund University, Sweden

1. Techno-Economic Paradigms and Latecomer Industrialization

Pedro Conceição, Instituto Superior Technico, Portugal

Manuel V. Heitor, Instituto Superior Technico, Portugal

Technological Leapfrogging by Developing Countries

M. R. Bhagavan, Stockholm Environment Institute(SEI), Sweden

Biotechnology and Implications for Technological Capability Building in Developing Countries

Dilek Cetindamar, Graduate School of Management, Sabanci University, Turkey

Bo Carlsson, Department of Economics, Case Western Reserve University, USA

Human Resources and Work Organization in the Knowledge Economy - The Case of the Indian Software Industry

Sandra Rothboeck, International Labour Organization, India

2. Knowledge Networks and the Internet

Peter Cukor, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, USA

Lee McKnight, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, USA

Inter-Firm Technology Cooperation and Implications for Capability Building

Prasada Reddy, Research Policy Institute, Lund University, Sweden

Knowledge Networks for Meeting the Societal Demands - The University Organization in Transition

Mats Benner, Research Policy Institute, Lund University, Sweden

Science Parks and Economic Development

Åsa Lindholm Dahlstrand, Department of Industrial Dynamics, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

Helen Lawton Smith, Centre for Local Economic Development, Coventry Business School, Coventry University, UK

3. Technology Transfer: Vehicles, Conditions, Spillovers, and Policy Challenges

Koh Ai Tee, Department of Economics, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Shandre Thangavelu, Department of Economics, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Technology Transfer Through Foreign Direct Investment to Developing Countries - The Role of Home Country Measures

Mimi Louise Groenbech, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

Transfer of Cleaner Production Technologies to Transition Economics and the Role of Meso-Level Institutions: The Case of Lithuania

Leonardas Rinkevicius, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania

4. The Social Implications of Technological Development: Industrialization and Innovation as a Collective Process

Arni Sverrison, Department of Sociology, Stockholm University, Sweden

Some Questions Related to the Epistomological Purity of Science?

Mammo Muchie, Aalborg University, Denmark

The Dynamics of Technology and Gender Roles

Anna Faelth, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Switzerland