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Developing and Harnessing Software Technology in the South: The Roles of China, India, Brazil, and South Africa

Software technology is gaining prominence in national information technology (IT) strategies due to its huge potential for socioeconomic development, particularly through the support it provides in the productive sectors of the economy, delivery of p...

Business networks Computer software Information technology
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The International Mobility of Technical Talent: Trends and Development Implications

From the book: The International Mobility of Talent

Computer software Education Emigration and immigration
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The International Mobility of Technical Talent: Trends and Development Implications

This paper charts the complex dynamics of the movement of technical talent in the world economy and assesses broadly the impact of such mobility on both sending and receiving countries...

Computer software Education Emigration and immigration
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The Software and Information Services Sector in Argentina: The Pros and Cons of an Inward-Oriented Development Strategy

From the book: New Economy in Development

Business enterprises Computer software Factor proportions
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Network Externality and Software Piracy

The pervasiveness of the illegal copying of software is a worldwide phenomenon. Software piracy implies a huge loss of potential customers of original software buyers, which directly translates into revenue losses for the software industry...

Competition Computer software Intellectual property
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The Software and Information Services Sector in Argentina: Pros and Cons of an Inward-Orientated Development Strategy

The software and information services (SIS) sector is at the heart of the New Economy and has been rapidly growing through the whole world during the last decades...

Business enterprises Computer software Factor proportions
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Growth of ICT and ICT for Development: Realities of the Myths of the Indian Experience

While there is an increasing realization of the potential that IT offers for human welfare, IT-induced productivity and growth are confined to the developed world...

Computer software Economic development Information technology
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The Defence Electronics Sector

From the book: The End of Military Fordism

Computer software Electronic commerce Industries
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