UN Millennium Development Library: Innovation, Millennium Project, UN

Автор: Cosmina L. Voinea, Nadine Roijakkers, Ward Ooms
Название: Sustainable Innovation
ISBN: 0367280736 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367280734
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This book represents a realistic critical overview of the state of affairs of sustainable innovations, offering an accessible and comprehensive diagnostic point of reference for both the academic and practitioner worlds.

Автор: Millennium Project, UN
Название: UN Millennium Development Library: Innovation
ISBN: 1138471925 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138471924
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: The UN Millennium Project was commissioned by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan to develop a practical plan of action to meet the Millennium Development Goals. This title argues that meeting the Millennium Development Goals requires a substantial reorientation of development policies to focus on key sources of economic growth.

Автор: Breznitz Dan
Название: Innovation in Real Places: Strategies for Prosperity in an Unforgiving World
ISBN: 0197508111 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780197508114
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: A challenge to prevailing ideas about innovation and a guide to identifying the best growth strategy for your community. Across the world, cities and regions have wasted trillions of dollars on blindly copying the Silicon Valley model of growth creation. Since the early years of the information age, we've been told that economic growth derives from harnessing technological innovation.

To do this, places must create good education systems, partner with local research universities, and attract innovative hi-tech firms. We have lived with this system for decades, and the result is clear: a small number of regionsand cities at the top of the high-tech industry but many more fighting a losing battle to retain economic dynamism. But are there other models that don't rely on a flourishing high-tech industry? In Innovation in Real Places, Dan Breznitz argues that there are.

The purveyors of the dominant ideas on innovation have a feeble understanding of the big picture on global production and innovation. They conflate innovation with invention and suffer from techno-fetishism. In their devotion to start-ups, they refuse to admit that the real obstacle to growth for most cities is the overwhelming power of thereal hubs, which siphon up vast amounts of talent and money.

Communities waste time, money, and energy pursuing this road to nowhere. Breznitz proposes that communities instead focus on where they fit in the four stages in the global production process. Some are at the highest end, and that is where theClevelands, Sheffields, and Baltimores are being pushed toward.

But that is bad advice. Success lies in understanding the changed structure of the global system of production and then using those insights to enable communities to recognize their own advantages, which in turn allows to them to foster surprising forms of specialized innovation. As he stresses, all localities have certain advantages relative to at least one stage of the global production process, and the trick is in recognizingit.

Leaders might think the answer lies in high-tech or high-end manufacturing, but more often than not, they're wrong. Innovation in Real Places is an essential corrective to a mythology of innovation and growth that too many places have bought into in recent years. Best of all, it has the potentialto prod local leaders into pursuing realistic and regionally appropriate models for growth and innovation.

Автор: Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba; Mammo Muchie
Название: Innovation, Regional Integration, and Development in Africa
ISBN: 3030063798 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030063795
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This edited volume discusses the role of innovation and regional integration in economic development in Africa. Over the past five decades, post-colonial African countries have struggled to break loose from the trap of poverty and underdevelopment through the adoption of various development strategies at regional, national, and continental levels. However, the results of both national and regional efforts at advancing development on the continent have been mixed. Although the importance of agglomeration and fusion of institutions have long been recognized as possible path to achieving economic development in Africa, the approach to regionalism has been unduly focused on market integration, while neglecting other dimensions such as social policy, mobility of labor, educational policy, biotechnology, regional legislation, manufacturing, innovation, and science and technology. This volume investigates the link between innovation, regional integration, and development in Africa, arguing that the immediate and long term development of Africa lies not just in the structural transformation of its economies but in the advancement of scientific and innovation capacities. The book is divided into four parts. Part I addresses the theoretical and conceptual underpinnings of innovation and regional integration in Africa. Part II presents case studies which examine how regional economic institutions are fostering innovation in Africa. Part III of the book deals with sectoral issues on innovation and integrated development in Africa. Part IV sets the future research on innovation, regional integration, and development in Africa. Combining theoretical analysis and a comparative, interdisciplinary approach, this volume is appropriate for researchers and students interested in economic development, political economy, African studies, international relations, agricultural science, and geography, as well as policymakers in regional economic communities and the African Union.

Автор: Salah El-Haggar; Aliaa Samaha
Название: Roadmap for Global Sustainability — Rise of the Green Communities
ISBN: 3030145832 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030145835
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Описание: Progressive increases in consumer demands along with aggressive industrial consumption led the world to proximate resource depletion, weather changes, soil and air degradation and water quality deterioration. We now know that the paradigm of production at the expense of human condition is not sustainable. This book briefly explains how we reached this situation and offers suggestions as to what can be done to overcome it. It invites the best entrepreneurial talent and scientific and technological know-how to develop a sustainable economy around sustainable communities, services, and sectors. A major obstacle previously identified by involved parties was the ability of accommodating for the emerging economic growth without causing harm to the environment, especially with resource depletion. This book provides the solution by creating a need to bring on a new revolution that preserves the rights of next generations to live in a healthy environment This Sustainability Revolution requires the integration of economic, environmental, and social factor as well as the practical aspects of implementing sustainability through green activities, which are discussed throughout the book. In this book, a globalization is proposed that encourages creativity and innovation towards sustainability. With this global sustainability approach (real globalization) both rich and poor will benefit from the global sustainability approach. This will close the gap between rich and poor. Developing countries could reap the benefit of current technology without undergoing many of the growing pains associated with development of these technologies. Governments are able to better work together towards common goals now that there is an advantage in cooperation, an improved ability to interact and coordinate, and a global awareness of issues. The book presents a sustainability roadmap to bring together various concepts, that have been dealt with independently by previous authors, and link them to establish the fundamental practical steps. The flow path and the direction for successful implementation of a sustainability roadmap are also discussed in detail in the book. For the first time, the authors use sustainable communities to create a better quality of life for residents while minimizing the use of the resources to meet current needs and ensure adequate resources for future generations. These green communities create new industries for the local economy and improve public health, which offers more hope for their citizens. Sustainable transportation, renewable energy, recycling, clean water, and urban forests help to make a more livable community and help to control the global climate change. They involve all citizens and incorporate local values into decision-making.

Автор: Durfee, Mary Johnstone, Rachael Lorna
Название: Arctic governance in a changing world
ISBN: 1442235632 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781442235632
Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Описание: This comprehensive text explains the relationship between the Arctic and the wider world through the lenses of international relations, international law, and political economy. It is an essential resource for any student or scholar seeking a clear and succinct account of a region of ever-growing international importance.

Автор: Gregory F. Nemet
Название: How Solar Energy Became Cheap: A Model for Low-Carbon Innovation
ISBN: 0367136597 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367136598
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Drawing on case studies from the US, Japan, German and China, this book provides a truly comprehensive and global explanation for how solar has become inexpensive and also offers important policy recommendations for accelerated innovation.

Название: Contemporary china
ISBN: 1138371270 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138371279
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Описание: Contemporary China analyzes the development of China up to and into the new millennium, covering economic and political developments in `Greater China`, particularly reunification prospects after Taiwan`s presidential election.

Автор: Oloruntoba
Название: Innovation, Regional Integration, and Development in Africa
ISBN: 3319921797 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319921792
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Описание: This edited volume discusses the role of innovation and regional integration in economic development in Africa.

Название: Africa and the millennium development goals
ISBN: 1442256257 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781442256255
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Описание: This unique work by the Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR), Cape Town, South Africa, tracks the progress Africa has made in achieving the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) since 2000. Thirteen analytical chapters written by scholars and practitioners with expertise in the various areas covered by the eight MDGs are organized around the larger themes of political economy, structural issues, sustainable goals, and human development goals. They critically assess the progress that Africa has made towards the achievement of the MDGs, discuss how to accelerate that progress, and offer alternatives and recommendations in support of institutions in Africa that are engaged in promoting the achievement of sustainable development. Throughout, they examine the role of various actors (including the African Union; Africa's regional economic communities, the United Nations, the European Union, etc.), civil society, and other external development partners in light of their contributions, shortfalls, and viable options in shaping the continent's development agenda. Together they provide a unique assessment from experts on the ground of whether the goals were a success and what remains to be done to achieve sustainable economic and human development in Africa.

Автор: Nguyen M. Hung; Nguyen V. Quyen
Название: Dynamic Timing Decisions Under Uncertainty
ISBN: 3540576495 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783540576495
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This monograph deals with dynamic timing decisions under conditions of uncertainty in the context of exhaustible resources. It describes how the processes of exploration and technological innovation generate the dynamics of various economic systems.

Название: Business and Development Studies
ISBN: 1138059870 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138059870
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Описание: Business and Development Studies: Issues and Perspectives provides a comprehensive collection of cutting edge theoretical and empirical contributions to the emerging field of business and development studies.