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The objective of this research was to focus on a new approach to consequence assessment of a company’s technological development. In view of the impact of a company’s technical and technological development regime on the efficiency of its operation, we used the method of assessing the core business along with pairwise comparisons to assess the basic business potential of a single company and related groups. Our proposed method for evaluating the business core was based on the technique of pairwise comparisons using the work of T. Saaty along with Fishburn’s method. We analyzed the hierarchical structure of the chosen enterprises using the following metrics: products, consumers, intangible assets, distribution channels and capital. In order to identify the technological basis of the enterprise’s competitive advantages, we first initiated a decomposition of the enterprise’s technological structure: business core, periphery and prospects. We used data obtained from the machine-tool sector of Ukraine, a country which demonstrates how a lack of effective technological development along with inadequate tools for the development and implementation of technological strategies can lead to significant destructive effects on national competitiveness. In particular, we pointed to a decrease in rates of return and profitability of production. In conclusion, we argue that a passive management policy of an enterprise with regard to its technological development can lead to catastrophic consequences for competitiveness in terms of innovation and development.

For decades society venerated advanced information and communications technologies (ICTs) as a source of economic rejuvenation and uplift. The financial crisis of 2007-08 shook such ideas. Originating in the United States, the driver of digital systems and services, the prolonged economic slump precipitated a perplexing historical outcome: a technological revolution wrapped inside an economic collapse. Dan Schiller analyzes the crisis tendencies of capitalism to root out the sources of this digital depression. From there he traces the economic re-composition wrought by ICTs, seeing them as a leading economic growth pole akin to the 1930s consumer industries that came out of the Great Depression. Finally, he lays out the present-day battles to capture and control digital technology and its growth. Demonstrating digital technology's central role in the global political economy and connecting it to the rise of worldwide financial, production and military networks, Schiller sets the digital communication industry in the context of intensifying geopolitical conflicts over the Internet. As he shows, the forces at the core of capitalism--exploitation, commodification, and inequality--are ongoing and accelerating within the networked political economy. Timely and wide ranging, Digital Depression blazes new ground in illuminating the role of information and communications within the political economy's developmental processes.

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on bloomsburycollections.com. Continuation along current development pathways is not sustainable. Available technology and production practices and the consumption patterns of modern societies are leading to global warming and ecological destruction. Business as usual is not an option. There is an urgent need to find a new development paradigm that ensures environmental sustainability while managing to provide, now and in the future, a decent livelihood for all of humankind. In Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Development, experts in the area provide a variety of insights about the technical transformation needed for sustainable development. It spells out the behavioural and policy changes that would need to accompany the next technological transformation, taking into account the complexity of inducing technological change in the energy and agricultural sectors. The assessment suggests that this will require major, but doable improvements in national innovation systems and major, but affordable shifts in investment patterns and related macroeconomic adjustments.

The presentation of innovation policy in this volume offers a detailed conceptual framework for understanding and learning about technology innovation policies and programs and their implementation in different countries. Inspired by the experience of both developed and developing countries, the book focuses on the latter's needs and issues. The publication's main audience is the policy-making community. It includes not only those who are directly involved with technology, industry, science, and education but also those in charge of finance and economics, and indeed the top government leadership, which plays a crucial role in successful innovation policies. This overview follows the organization of the volume, which is divided into parts and chapters. Before a summary of the individual chapters, however, the main messages that emerge from the volume as a whole are briefly presented. The approach to innovation policy proposed in this volume revolves around the basic questions: why? What? How?

Presents empirical research and cases to develop a theory of sustainable innovation that is based on management of knowledge, knowledge and cognition and innovation approaches. This work argues that knowledge and innovation are the key drivers of social and corporate sustainability. It is intended for managers and researchers.

Since the demonstration of the first modern silicon solar cells at Bell Labs in 1954, it took 58 years until the cumulative installed photovoltaic electricity generation capacity had reached 100 GW by the end of 2012. Then, it took another five years to reach an annual installation capacity of over 100 GW in 2017 and close to 120 GW in 2019. As a consequence, the total world-wide installed photovoltaic electricity generation capacity exceeded 635 GW at the end of 2019. Although it witnessed a 20% and 25% decrease in annual installations in 2018 and 2019, respectively, China was again the largest market with 30 GW of annual installations. The number of countries in the club with more than 1 GW annually has increased to 18 countries in 2019. The use of local battery storage systems in solar farms as well as decentralized photovoltaic electricity generation systems combined has again increased, due to the falling storage system costs.

Despite the vast wealth generated in the last half century, in today’s world inequality is worsening and poverty is becoming increasingly chronic. Hundreds of millions of people continue to live on less than $2 per day and lack basic human necessities such as nutritious food, shelter, clean water, primary health care, and education. Innovating for the Global South offers fresh solutions for reducing poverty in the developing world. Highlighting the multidisciplinary expertise of the University of Toronto’s Global Innovation Group, leading experts from the fields of engineering, medicine, management, and global public policy examine the causes and consequences of endemic poverty and the challenges of mitigating its effects from the perspective of the world’s poorest of the poor. Can we imagine ways to generate solar energy to run essential medical equipment in the countryside? Can we adapt information and communication technologies to provide up-to-the-minute agricultural market prices for remote farming villages? How do we create more inclusive innovation processes to hear the voices of those living in urban slums? Is it possible to reinvent a low-cost toilet that operates beyond the water and electricity grids? Motivated by the imperatives of developing, delivering, and harnessing innovation in the developing world, Innovating for the Global South is essential reading for managers, practitioners, and scholars of development, business, and policy.

Objective: The study aimed to map the production of technologies and innovations related to biotechnology in Brazil.   Theoretical Framework: It was decided to take patents granted in the databases of the National Institute of Intellectual Property as a basis, using the patentiometry technique.   Method: The patentiometry method is used, with the characterization being the analysis of the results of 2,396 patents, characterizing 'countries', 'regions and candidates', 'IPC code' and 'publication dates' and the stratification of information was carried out, generating the data to be analyzed in the research.   Results and Discussion: Significant emphasis on research centers and public universities in the development of technologies. In recent years, the Brazilian national market began to compete with foreigners, this fact forced the national industry to rethink its conventional models and strategies, with Brazil being the sixth largest producer of pharmaceutical methods, another fact that presents similarity is in relation to agro-industries, addressing Brazil stands out in this production.   Implications of the Research: It was evident that Brazil has directed part of its resources to investment and development of technologies in the country and biotechnology is driven by research centers and federal universities. The South, Southeast and Northeast regions are made up of the states that have greater expressiveness in innovation and technologies related to biotechnology.   Originality/Value: This study contributes to literature, scientific and social academic community, as it presents data on innovation in the field of biotechnology, enabling reflections on impacts, investments and development of the country through technological production.

The book examines the relationship between innovation, competitiveness, and economic growth, the role of innovation in financial sector development, and specific government policies for innovation in China.

Adoption of better technologies by enterprises can generate better and more jobs for African countries' growing populations, including for lower-skilled people. The book recommends policies to ensure availability of affordable digital infrastructure and associated technologies and to promote their use.