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Promoting Technology and Innovation: Recommendations to Improve Arab ICT Competitiveness

GEOFFREY SAMUELS, INSEAD The Middle East has begun to embrace the Internet. During the past six years, the region recorded the largest growth in Internet users among the major world areas as the number of Middle Eastern citizens accessing the Web soared by more than 600 percent, three times the world’s average increase.The mobile telephone market has become a prodigy market, as liberalization a...

Disruptive Innovation: Implications for Competitiveness and Innovation Policy

on behalf of the European Commission, DG Enterprise and Industry. INNO makers in adopting appropriate responses to emerging innovation needs, trends and phenomena. It is part of the European Commission's PRO INNO Eur focal point for innovation policy analysis and cooperation. The INNO monitoring (Lot 2) is carried out by empirica GmbH and ICEG European Cent Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köl...

The Chemical Industry: Regulation, Innovation, and Competitiveness

The effect of environmental regulation on innovation by firms and on competitiveness by countries has been a source of theorizing and debate for more than half a century. In particular, the chemical industry, which arose in Europe and the US at the end of the 19 century together with the second industrial revolution, has been accused of causing numerous large-scale accidents, which have had sig...

Balancing Between Competitiveness and Cohesion in Innovation

Insights into Human Nature Can Improve Our Safety Systems

748 P&T® • December 2004 • Vol. 29 No. 12 It is widely recognized that system failures cause errors. Well-designed systems that employ technology, where appropriate and when used correctly, offer the best chance of preventing errors. But has our growing attention to systems and technology caused us to overlook interventions that can improve our mental performance? While we are beginning to bett...