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Authors:Richard Silberglitt, Anny Wong, S. R. Bohandy, Br
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: area, tianjin, technology, tbna, economic, technological, teda, development, new, binhai, executive, china, summary, emerging, global, opportunities, revolution
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2009
ISBN-10: 0833046489
ISBN-13: 9780833046482
In 2007, the Tianjin Binhai New Area (TBNA) and one of its administrative zones, the Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area (TEDA), in northeast China commissioned the RAND Corporation to perform a technology-foresight study to help them develop and implement a strategic vision and plan for economic growth through technological innovation. The principal objectives were to identify the most-promising emerging technology applications for TBNA and TEDA to pursue as part of their plan for growth, to analyze the drivers and barriers they would face in each case, and to recommend action pla
Authors:Richard Silberglitt, Anny Wong, S. R. Bohandy, Br
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: area, tianjin, technology, tbna, economic, technological, teda, development, new, binhai, depth, china, analyses, emerging, global, opportunities, revolution
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2009
ISBN-10: 0833046470
ISBN-13: 9780833046475
In 2007, the Tianjin Binhai New Area (TBNA) and one of its administrative zones, the Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area (TEDA), in northeast China commissioned the RAND Corporation to perform a technology-foresight study to help them develop and implement a strategic vision and plan for economic growth through technological innovation. The principal objectives were to identify the most-promising emerging technology applications for TBNA and TEDA to pursue as part of their plan for growth, to analyze the drivers and barriers they would face in each case, and to recommend action pla
Authors:Richard Silberglitt, Anny Wong, S. R. Bohandy, Br
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: area, technology, tianjin, tbna, technological, economic, teda, version, language, chinese, development, binhai, depth, china, revolution, analyses, emerging, global, opportunities, new
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2009
ISBN-10: 0833046624
ISBN-13: 9780833046628
In 2007, the Tianjin Binhai New Area (TBNA) and one of its administrative zones, the Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area (TEDA), in northeast China commissioned the RAND Corporation to perform a technology-foresight study to help them develop and implement a strategic vision and plan for economic growth through technological innovation. The principal objectives were to identify the most-promising emerging technology applications for TBNA and TEDA to pursue as part of their plan for growth, to analyze the drivers and barriers they would face in each case, and to recommend action pla
Author: Mcrel
Publisher: McRel 2005
Keywords: america, educating, schooling, future
Published: 2005
eBookDB-ID: B001EFO71S
After analyzing key demographic, economic, cultural, global, political, and technological trends in the US, McREL has written 16 scenarios that describe how these trends may converge to create different futures for schooling in America. The report describes four different scenarios, or alternate futures, for four different types of education-related organizations: Local school districts, State education agencies, National education organizations, Education research and development organizations. Implications and options for educators, as well as likely indicators for each scenario and
Author: Maureen F. McHugh
Publisher: Small Beer Press
Keywords: stories, monsters, mothers
Number of Pages: 271
Published: 2006-06-01
ISBN-10: 1931520194
ISBN-13: 9781931520195
In her luminous collection of short stories, Maureen F. McHugh wryly and delicately examines the impacts of social and technological shifts on families. Using beautiful, deceptively simple prose, she illuminates the relationship between parents and children and the expected and unexpected chasms that open between generations. A woman has to introduce her new lover to her late brother. A teenager is interviewed about her peer group s attitude to sex . . . and baby boomers. A missing stepson sets a marriage on edge. McHugh s characters, her Alzheimersafflicted parents or her smart, rebellious te
Author: Felicia Wu William Butz
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: lessons, revolution, crops, modified, genetically, future
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2004
ISBN-10: 0833036467
ISBN-13: 9780833036469
Although the number of people in danger of malnutrition worldwide has decreased significantly in the past 30 years, thanks in part to the Green Revolution of the 20th century, an estimated 800 million people still lack adequate access to food. The world is now on the cusp of a second potential agricultural revolution, the so-called Gene Revolution, in which modern biotechnology can enable the production of genetically modified (GM) crops tailored to address chronic agricultural problems in specific regions of the world. This monograph report investigates the circumstances and processes that ca
