Editorial: Coupling technology to national needs

Meeting technology needs of enterprises for national competitiveness

This paper addresses the question of how enterprises can improve their competitiveness through the acquisition and development of technology, and hence how countries are able to raise the level of industrial development and grow their GDP. It takes the example of East Asia to demonstrate how fast economic growth can be achieved through the "stages" approach to technology acquisition and develop...

Editorial: Unmet Needs in Dystonia

Technology in response to local needs.

Science serves its readers as a forum for the presentaBef( tion and discussion of important issues related to the adfedera vancement of science, including the presentation of minority or conflicting points of view, rather than by pubwith p lishing only material on which a consensus has been and th reached. Accordingly, all articles published in Scienceincluding editorials, news and comment, and...

Bearings: Technology and Needs

A brief status report on bearing technology and present and near-term future problems that warrant research support is presented. For rolling element bearings a material with improved fracture toughness, life data in the low A region, a comprehensive failure theory verified by life data and incorporated into dynamic analyses, and an improved corrosion resistant alloy are perceived as important ...

Editorial: Technology and Lifelong Learning

Last year, I decided to edit this special issue because Technology and Lifelong Learning is the topic of our new five-year RTD programme at the Open University of the Netherlands’ Educational Technology Expertise Centre. This editorial begins by explaining why we are focusing on the development of new technologies to foster lifelong learning. This background information will help readers unders...