Information and communication technologies have long promised to provide quality education, improve health care, allow open government, and solve environmental issues.
This book explores how policies targeting public research institutions, such as universities, contribute to the appropriation of biotechnology through national innovation systems.
A daily battle for rights and freedoms in cyberspace is being waged in Asia.
To mitigate, develop, and improve the lives of those vulnerable to intense natural disasters, climate change, and food insecurity, many agencies are funding and implementing diverse activities from reconstruction to rehabilitation.
Strengthening Rural Livelihoods provides a useful and balanced review of the influence that mobile phones and the Internet can have on supporting the livelihoods of rural people, and particularly farmers in Asia.
This book has been designed for the orientation and training of specialists in open and distance learning methods in Asia.
For observers elsewhere in the world, the most striking feature of distance education (DE) in Asia is the mega-universities and mega-schools that have added many millions to the global tally of distance learners in recent decades.
In recent decades, there have been significant changes in the way corporate innovation is performed. They include changes in the innovation process, flexibility to outsource innovation activities, and most importantly, the location of innovation.
Globalization, the information age, and the rise of the knowledge-based economy are significantly transforming the way we acquire, disseminate, and transform knowledge.
With an annual income of approximately $200 US per capita, the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam is one of the world’s poorest countries.