BIOTECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENTS IN JAPAN: COMMENTS ON SAXONHOUSE'S PERSPECTIVE

The model form of macro-economic policy integration and the tripartite implementation mechanism put forward in Australia Reconstructed, a report of the ACTU/TDC mission to Western Europe, are examined. The form of evidence presented is found not to provide a test of the model's validity, nor is the format consistent with its message content. The model aside, the underlying premise that tripartite participation leads to commitment is questioned. An alternative rationale supporting the use of tripartite-like mechanisms in Australia, that of maximisation of strategic advantages now associated with new information technologies is presented. The implications for management, shareholders and union stakeholders are highlighted.     

Technology and Globalisation: An Overview

Globalisation is a term too easily used without reference to the basic enabling role of technology. It is the interplay between available technology and the prevailing social processes, especially dominant institutional forms, which has essentially determined the long process of globalisation. This process has gone through phases exhibiting varying core characteristics as production, transport and communications technologies especially have interrelated with the institutional structures of nation states, military forces and firms especially. However, a general trend to geographical and tendentially global expansion has been constant, along with an intensification of information processing and communications capacity. The role of technology has been to enable this physical expansion culminating in globalisation, including the techno-industrial capacity that increasingly drove it through the construction of better and cheaper artefacts.     

Innovation and Clustering among Information Technology Firms in Melbourne1

This paper investigates innovative activities, clustering and regional interaction of a group of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) firms in the metropolitan area of Melbourne. In order to make an evaluation of the regional innovation potential among the firms, a written questionnaire was sent to the selected firms. The focal point of the analysis lay in determining innovative activities within individual firms and degree of linkages between different firms. The results indicate that innovative relationships with customers and suppliers are stronger within the region and they tend to co‐operate more on a vertical basis. However, the findings suggest that firms rely only partly on innovation partners within the region and to a considerable extent they are integrated in national and international networks.     

产学研合作中技术与资本的结合过程探析——以北京科技大学产业技术研究院为例

根据技术演化过程中的不同形态特征分析技术与资本的结合过程,认为"技术-资本"视角下的产学研合作中存在两种过程,分别是技术追逐资本过程与资本追逐技术过程。以北京科技大学产业技术研究院为案例,分析技术与资本结合过程中的风险、资源配置方式、收益分配等问题,总结了产学研合作中资本运作的"技术-风险-收益"模式。     

城镇商业活动空间相互作用的测算方法探讨

基于空间相互作用原理,运用最短邻近距离法测量两个行业间的商铺距离,用其与行业内部商铺距离进行对比,测算两行业的相对空间关系。通过计算获得最邻近距离指数、相对邻近距离指数和最邻近距离比率三个指标。以三个指标的涨落变化作为判断相互作用关系的标准,行业间空间关系可描述为相对靠近、随机靠近和相对远离三种状态。     

Discursive construction of Pakistan's national identity through curriculum textbook discourses in a Pakistani school in Dubai,the United Arab Emirates

This study investigates Pakistan's secondary school children's constructions of their national identity in a Pakistani school in Dubai by drawing on data collected from students and teachers from the case school and analysing national curriculum textbooks used in the school. Informed by Foucault's concepts, the article problematises how the curriculum textbooks are employed as a technology of power for inculcating national consciousness in the students. The findings suggest that Pakistan's national curriculum textbooks deploy a specific version of Islam as a major technology, which then influences other national identity signifiers in the textbooks for shaping students' national identity. The school affords a crucial space for the complex interplay of these technologies, which construct students' ethnocentric national identities, encouraging social polarisation. This has implications for Pakistan's national social cohesion as well as the potential for subverting international peaceful coexistence and working relationships, particularly in the selected overseas study context.     

社会网络对蕉农采纳资源节约型技术的影响机制——以水肥一体化技术为例

新的资源节约型技术在农户群体中的扩散是中国农业转向可持续性发展的关键,具备有限知识的农户在采纳资源节约型技术过程中势必受到其社会网络的重要影响。本文基于有限知识农户的假设,从理论上探讨了社会网络在不同维度对农户采用新的资源节约型技术的影响,以及农户技术认知在社会网络与农户技术采纳决策两者关联之间可能的中介作用;然后,以水肥一体化技术（DFS）为例,利用2019年广东、海南和云南3省632户香蕉种植农户调查数据,构建中介效应检验模型,实证分析农户社会网络、技术认知与DFS技术采纳决策之间的作用逻辑。研究表明：农户社会网络与技术认知可以显著促进农户在生产过程采纳资源节约型技术;且农户的社会网络可以弱化农户在新型技术上的认知差异,从而可能形成新的关于技术的群体认知,加强农户对资源节约型技术的采纳。具体地,社会网络的“倾向”和“互惠”可以改善农户关于技术转换梯度和技术认知嵌入度的感知,从而影响农户对资源节约型技术的采纳决策,而社会网络“范畴”会直接影响农户资源节约型技术的采纳决策,且这种影响在不同地区存在一定程度的异质性。     

数字资源远程访问技术及访问系统构建

列举了图书馆数字资源远程访问的主流技术及其优缺点,指出了图书馆应根据具体技术条件和用户情况采取相应的技术构建访问系统,介绍了解放军医学图书馆采用反向代理技术构建的数字资源远程访问系统。     

国家自然科学基金重大项目"基于现代信息技术研究传染病时空传播与流行规律"研究成果综述

本文简要介绍了项目在传染病流行病学数据整合及其共享分析技术平台建设、血吸虫病时空动态传播的多尺度定量化模型、血吸虫病时空传播和动态预测模型、肾综合征出血热时空分布与传播规律、生态流行病学、传播风险预测等方面取得的重要创新性研究成果.     

关于我国稀土产业发展的战略性思考

稀土是全球争夺的重要战略资源,稀土功能材料更是战略性新兴产业发展的催化剂,应用前景广阔。然而,稀土产业附加值的高低取决于是否掌握核心技术。分析我国稀土产业发展面临的问题,提出系统谋划我国稀土产业发展、瞄准价值链高端、加快我国稀土产业的技术创新体系建设等发展我国稀土产业的几点思考。