Handbook on Women-owned SMEs, Challenges and Opportunities in Policies and Programmes

In this publication, prepared jointly by IKED and Global Knowledge Partnership, the experience and lessons of women entrepreneurs around the world lay the basis for recommendations for how to increase management skills in the era of globalisation

This book, with includes contributions from a number of authors writing from different parts of the world, ventures into the issues confronting women-owned SMEs (WOEs) in respect of knowledge and skills development. The inspiration for the book emerged at a special session, on Women Entrepreneurship and ICT: Policy & Programme Implications for Women SMEs in Training, Advocacy Strategy and Growth, hosted jointly by IKED and the GKP at the Global Knowledge Forum, October 12, 2004, in Seoul, South Korea. Those deliberations clearly demonstrated that many women embark upon entrepreneurial ventures based on considerable experience and skills in a particular area, but with limited experience of management. Once locked into the intensive process of launching a business, they find little room for strategic planning. As a result, they may be further overloaded while seeing their enterprises stagnate.

The session at the World Knowledge Forum inspired continued contacts and the search for opportunities to address such issues. The contributions to the book assume a global outlook and present a coherent set of reflections on WOEs worldwide. Though developing economies, and to some extent transition economies, receive special consideration, the content is relevant for developed countries as well. The intended audience is a broad one and includes academics, policymakers, business people, intermediaries and entrepreneurs themselves.

Advanced Strategies for Development: Building Knowledge Economies for Senior Asian Policymakers

The forum on "Advanced Strategies for Development: Building Knowledge Economies for Senior Asian Policymakers" took place on February 22, 2008 and brought together 31 participants from 11 countries from East and South Asia. This one-day special forum was designed to cover the overview of knowledge economy in the form of core concepts, global trends. . .

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"A Low-Cost Route to the Web"

"Meraki, a Silicon Valley start-up company that has powered thousands of simple, inexpensive wireless networks around the world, began with a concept different from the single source 'hub-and-spoke' model of a network with a central source. Developed initially by students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States (US), it works . . .

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"Foreign High-Tech R&D in China"

Subtitle: 'RISKS, REWARDS, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS" From the Forward: "This study explores the confluence of two key aspects of the architecture of international relations in the 21st century—globalization and an increasingly trade-oriented conception of national security—within the specific context of foreign high-tech resea. . .

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Knowledge and Innovation for Competitiveness in Brazil

This study provides a broad, cross-sectoral analysis of Brazil's capacity for producing knowledge and innovation. As such, it moves beyond the traditional recommendations- that is, build a stable macroeconomic environment and business-friendly physical and policy infrastructure – and instead seeks a more comprehensive approach. The fact is that . . .

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ICT Policies and Studies

The ICT Policies and Studies Theme website has been developed through a partnership of the Communications Initiative with the International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD).

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World IP Today: A Report On Global Technology Innovations from 1997-2006

"In recognition of World Intellectual Property Day on April 26, 2007, Thomson Scientific reviews the massive increase in technology innovations developed globally over the past ten years (1997-2006), highlighting tri-lateral inventions or inventions that have been filed in the U.S., Europe and Japan." (PDF, 7 pages.)

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IssueLab: Registration page for nonprofit research contributors

IssueLab is an online publishing forum for nonprofit research. Our mission is to more effectively archive, distribute and promote the extensive and diverse body of work being produced by the third sector. A Research Contributor account is strictly for maintaining your organization's research collection.

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Accessing Global Knowledge Workshop

March 17, 2008, New Delhi, India. In the context of preparing the India Innovation project and as part of the Diaspora of Highly Skilled practice, this workshop, organized by the Indian Department of Science and Technology, explored contest-based mechanisms to elicit proposals from diverse actors of Indian society to generate diversity of models a. . .

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  Knowledge for Poverty Alleviation framework

CCLFI of the Philippines recently introduced a framework for community development – the Knowledge for Poverty Alleviation or KPA –. The tool was introduced and presented April 9, 2008 at a World Bank-led Development Innovation Marketplace in the Philippines. KPA is the product of the partnership between two non-profit foundations, CCLFI.Philippine. . .

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UN Population Division

The Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations provides many important reports that can be downloaded without charge. The reports and data include not only historical data and projects of population, but also analysis of urbanization , international migration and the impacts of population trends on ed. . .

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