Over the past four decades Taiwan's economy has experienced significant structural change. At the outset of this period, Taiwan was just recovering from the ravages of World War II, and the economy was heavily dominated by the agricultural sector, which accounted for one-third of the net domestic product, more than half (56 percent) of total employment, and 92 percent of total exports. By 1988 ...

What economic mechanisms underlie the polarisation of the world economy into the ‘high wage’ industrialised countries, and the less developed ‘low wage’ countries? Should we expect the two groups to converge over time, or to diverge? What economic mechanisms come into play as LDCs attempt to ‘catch up’? How does the current liberalisation of world trade, or ‘globalisation’, impinge on these cou...

The thermal management of lighting electronics is for a great deal supported by simulation tools. Results strongly depend amongst others on the component models, the modelling of radiation heat transport and the value of the component heat production. This paper gives a survey of how these topics are dealt with in a product engineering environment and the directions for improvement.

Solutions are typically developed in networks, which combine resources from multiple actors. Extant literature has shown that solution development is dependent on the relationships between the network actors. However, the processes and activities which are needed for orchestrating solution development network have remained unclear because solution development has been analyzed mostly from a sin...

Sustainable development of cities is highly connected with the pollution generated from industrial facilities and power plants. Both affect quality of air, weather, health and quality of life. The main goal of this paper is to determine the impact of selected weather parameters on the pollution from mentioned plants. From the research results, it can be concluded that sustainable urban developm...

In the first section the paper describes the weak position held by Africa in the global trade of goods and identifies key determinants of the region’s industrial performance. It goes on to outline shifts in the overall structure of international trade and production, together with the challenges they pose for Africa. It analyses the reasons for low productivity rates, points to missed export op...

Every design deserves decisions based on the application domain knowledge collected from previous similar implementations. The paper deals with stepwise development of a dedicated LAN-based industrial measurement application. The conception of this development stems from a knowledge preserving, graceful conversion of the original enterprise practice into a cooperative work supporting arrangemen...

The scale of the industrial chain for construction waste reclamation in China is still at a small magnitude with a relatively slow development rate, yet to form an industrial chain that is mature. With the industrial chain theory, this paper takes Guangzhou as an example to construct a simulation model of the scale of industrial chain of construction waste reclamation based on system dynamics. ...