Vol.1 - No.1 - Winter 2004
| Three Main Reasons Why India is Leading the World Software Market |
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By Guillermo Rueda There are some facts that make India very interesting to study. In one side, India is considered today as the second largest country in population in the world, a country with the highest number of unemployment’s people, a country with more than 400 million people living with less than US$1 per day, a country with 36% of the poor people in the world, and 20% of the world’s out-of-school children. However, at the same time India has been focus of study from many developed and developing countries for their rapid growing and leading position in the software field around the world. [More] |
| Technology Foresight: An opportunity for finding leverage points in developing countries |
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By Guillermo Rueda A country is a complex system consisting of a set of elements connected by multiple and non-linear relationships. Technology foresight, commonly defined as a systematic process to identify critical technologies [1] [2] that will allow countries to develop consistently and reach their goals, has been growing in importance during the last two decades. [More] |
| China Draws on Global Wisdom in Sci-tech Planning |
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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said that China is open to the advice of overseas experts in the process of drafting a medium and long-term plan for the advancing of science and technology. Wen said China adopts an open approach in drafting a plan that is oriented to the world and the future. Wen made the remarks in a meeting with overseas experts attending a forum on science and technology development planning for the coming two decades in Beijing. [More] |
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