This book, "The Mystery of Economic Growth," which was recently published in Hebrew, provides an excellent non-technical description of the developments of growth economics over the last half century. The story of the ideas and research of the theory and empirics of economic growth is organized around four themes. First, the importance of the accumulation of physical and human capital for the e...

As the journal moves into its 10th year of publication, it (really those charged with its editorial well-being) continues to monitor developments in the field of proteomics, including activities in the related fields of genomics, transcriptomics, and metabolomics, with the view of introducing appropriate changes to accommodate them. This includes keeping our clinical and mass spectrometric iden...

Science, technology, and innovation are essential to America’s continued economic growth, and can help achieve a wide range of national and global policy objectives. One currently underutilized tool for stimulating technological innovation is inducement prizes, which encourage efforts by contestants to accomplish a particular goal. A related policy instrument is an Advanced Market Commitment, u...

The relationship between total quality management (TQM) and innovation is complex. Literature suggests that conflicting arguments exist and that the impact of TQM on innovation depends both on the specific quality management elements under consideration and on the type of innovation. In this research, our goal is to analyse at what extent the introduction of TQM is indeed supporting innovation ...

Technological knowledge can be analyzed as a collective good since it is the result of systemic dynamics that make possible the access, accumulation and diffusion of interdependent bits of localized technological knowledge among complementary actors. Interactive behaviors and shared learning are the determinants of such collective character highlighting the need for effective communication oppo...

Employment creation has dropped off the direct agenda of most central banks. Th e so-called “global best practice” approach to central banking has not focused on economic growth or employment generation but rather on keeping infl ation in the low single digits. However, the policy record shows that employment generation and economic growth are often not by-products of infl ation focused central...

Innovation and Employment: A Survey According to the "compensation theory", market forces should assure a complete compensation of the initial labour-saving impact of process innovations. In this paper a critique of this approach is proposed through a detailed survey of the theoretical and empirical literature on the subject. The general conclusion is that – although compensation is always work...

In any healthcare sector, the medical device industry plays an important role in reducing overall healthcare costs and ensuring effective access to healthcare. However, in developing countries such as India compared to the success of the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry, the medical device industry has not witnessed similar growth. In this context this paper studies factors and issues ...

The synergy among knowledge, creativity, research, innovation and education represents the crucial point of the knowledge based society, representing the main priority of the competitive development. Taking into account the globalisation, the fast technological development, and the increasing demand on information and knowledge, the education should play a major part in redefining the chain kno...