Innovation‚ IPRs‚ Tech. Transfer and Diffusion Universidade do Minho 2011-2012 Teacher: Ana Paula Faria (apfaria@eeg.uminho.pt). Student: Rosario D’Auria Erasmus student: E4407 Email: rosar.dauria@gmail.com Phone: 927672892 Assignment #2 – HIGH TECH INDUSTRIES AND KNOWLEDGE INTESIVE SERVICES Due date: 17-NOV-2011 It doesn’t exist a single authoritative methodology to define high-tech industries. The organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) identifies high-tech industries
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Closing the High-Tech Gender Gap This year’s Lemelson-MIT Prize winner discusses grassroots ways for boosting the number of women in technology and business. I have a confession to make: I’ve been living under a rock. I’ve actually been busy under here — running a bioengineering lab at MIT‚ starting companies‚ teaching‚ consulting‚ being a mom. But I’ve been so focused on keeping all the balls in the air that‚ until recently‚ I hadn’t noticed that women typically aren’t the ones starting
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Strategic Analysis Tools for High Tech Marketing Carmo A. D’Cruz Xodus Business & Technology Solutions‚ Inc. www.XodusBTS.com Abstract High Tech Marketing is characterized by high levels of technical and market uncertainties‚ rapidly declining prices‚ collapsing markets and shortening product life cycles. Conventional strategic analysis tools are inadequate for effective analysis in developing high tech marketing strategy. This paper reviews a portfolio of cotemporary strategic analysis tools that
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ever-present idea of a warfare paradox when it comes to our involvement in conflicts. The clash between our ideals as a nation and what we do to further those ideals throughout the world will always be‚ to some extent‚ conflicting. Our Founding Fathers laid down the tenets of our land centuries ago‚ and through our course of trying to uphold those tenets‚ we have undoubtedly had complications I regards to conflicting ideals. The three mainstays of the warfare paradox‚ isolationism‚ interventionism
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Thanks to subliminal advertising and propaganda drilled into our head since we were little‚ we have come to associate certain foods with wholesomeness and others with nastiness. When we look at the GMO and high-tech food mess from this perspective‚ we see that it’s the organic-versus-regular battle. What it really boils down‚ however‚ is that it’s the producer agenda have be pushed onto the consumer’s mind. They have made us believe that we want and need certain food items in order to be social
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In the article “High Tech Trash” by Chris Caroll‚ Caroll explains the effects of e-waste (electronic trash). The article mentioned how most electronics that are thrown out‚ donated to charity‚ or even recycled still end up in developing countries. “While some recyclers process the material with an eye toward minimizing pollution and health risk‚ many more sell it to brokers who ship it to the developing world‚ where environmental enforcement is weak” (Caroll 81). This causes our e-waste to affect
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Internet Paradox Facultatea de Ştiinţe Politice‚ Administrative şi ale Comunicării Publicitate‚ an II Onofrei Alexandra‚ Mureşan Andreea‚ Râşteiu Cristian‚ Vălean Luca Vlad Abstract This paper explores the impact of internet use on interpersonal relationships between people and it will try to determine whether or not social interactions are affected by prolongued use of the internet (social media). This study will have two parts‚ the theoretical part in which we present a brief introduction
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contrasting ideas may be spaced out in a sentence e.g. “In order to lead‚ you must walk behind.” Difference between Oxymoron and Paradox It is important to understand the difference between a paradox and an oxymoron. A paradox may consist of a sentence or even a group of sentences. An oxymoron‚ on the other hand‚ is a combination of two contradictory or opposite words. A paradox seems contradictory to the general truth but it does contain an implied truth. An oxymoron‚ however‚ may produce a dramatic
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Introduction to the Bertrand Model The Bertrand model was developed by Joseph Bertrand to challenge Cournot’s work on non-cooperative oligopolies. Cournot’s model dealt with an N number of firms who will choose a specific quantity of output where price is a known decreasing function of total output. (About.com 2011) However‚ Bertrand’s argument was with regard to the setting of prices. He said the only factors influencing the price in an oligopolistic market were the firms themselves and therefore
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between nations and it also gives an explanation to the sovereign paradox. In the war‚ Bargaining on the war is basically the action of exchanging conversation with one party to take over another parties due to its powers‚ status‚ levels‚ influences‚ and others different persuasion strategy. Coercion on the other hand is basically the practice of persuading someone to do things by using force or threats. An example of the sovereign paradox using both Bargaining and Coercion is Fascism; these political
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