the governments of the People's Republic of China and Portugal through a contribution to the UNU Endownment Fund. As well as providing two-thirds of the endownment fund, the Macau authorities also supply UNU/IIST with its ooce premises and furniture and subsidise fellow accommodation. The mission of UNU/IIST is to assist developing countries in the application and development of software techno...

Kyoto Protocol allows developing countries to obtain technology transfer from developed countries under the framework of Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). Although South Africa is an ideal country to implement CDM projects, it lags behind many other countries in the number of CDM projects. This result prohibits South Africa to obtain technology transfer. This paper studies what licensing mode ...

Introduction This paper briefly describes, compares, analyzes the methodologies and tools being used for monitoring and evaluation (M&E), and finally M&E experience of two major agricultural development projects in India namely Diversified Agricultural Support Project (DASP) being carried out in 32 districts of Uttar Pradesh and 5 districts of Uttranchal and National Agricultural Technology Pro...

real options applied to technology projects, and quantifying the business value of information technology initiatives. He has more than 30 publications in scientific and technology journals, and three book chapters including a chapter on ROI analysis for e-business projects in the 2003 Wiley Encyclopedia of the Internet. Prof. Jeffery has also developed 14 original case studies that are used in...

This guideline reviews the introduction and development of business planning in the National Health Service. A guideline for writing a business case for service development that would form part of a pathology business plan has been developed. This guideline outlines six steps that are required in the preparation of a business case. The format of the guideline has been developed largely from oth...

Although object-oriented programming techniques have evolved into an accepted technology with recognized benefits for software development, profound investigations of qualitative and quantitative aspects about its pros and cons are missing. This paper tries to answer crucial questions based on the experience gained by the authors and their partners in several projects where object-oriented tech...

This guideline reviews the introduction and development of business planning in the National Health Service. A guideline for writing a business case for service development that would form part of a pathology business plan has been developed. This guideline outlines six steps that are required in the preparation of a business case. The format of the guideline has been developed largely from oth...