A measure of technological capabilities for developing countries

Khayyat, Nabaz T.; Lee, Jeong‐Dong

doi:10.1016/j.techfore.2014.09.003

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“…Some critics still equate them to totalitarian approaches with 5 and 10 year strategic plans, and their argument is that they are too dogmatic to enhance the nations' innovation capabilities (Khayyat and Lee, 2015).…”

Section: Government Policy and Regulationmentioning

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A Study of Telecommunication Policies and Broadband Penetration for Sweden and South Korea

Khayyat¹

2017

UKH J SCI ENG

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A B S T R A C TInternet broadband technology is the next phase in internet evolution. The emergence of broadband brought many options to internet users. It is evident that, in the future, broadband internet may introduce a big difference in the lives of the public, industry, and the government. However, the diffusion of broadband is clogged at the regulation crossroads between market, government, and consumer, especially with regard to allow third parties to be involved in building the broadband infrastructure. Controlling access to the development of broadband infrastructure may produce a monopolizing market and limiting the variety and quality of available services. The current study investigates the development of broadband and its penetration in South Korea (the highest country with the access to broadband services) and Sweden (the second highest rate of internet penetration among the OECD countries). The paper overviews the broadband markets in both countries, focusing on their government policies in promoting the technology used and the growth of the market. The paper argues about the challenges facing the market for developing broadband technology, such as increase in the demand and supply for higher speed broadband, increase in the traffic congestion as users spend more time using internet, and more data are transferred between individual, software, and applications. The paper finally derives a number of ICT policy objectives and classifies the two countries based on their market approach into: Laissez faire (free markets) and markets led by the government's national plan, with quantified objectives, and the regulators instruments strategies to meet the mentioned objectives.

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A Study of Telecommunication Policies and Broadband Penetration for Sweden and South Korea

Khayyat¹

2017

UKH J SCI ENG

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“…Although fostering technological knowledge does not necessary correspond to the creation of innovation (Archibugi & Pietrobelli, 2003), advanced industrialised countries (AICs) have shifted from capital intensive to knowledge based economies. Given the pressure for specialisation in the tertiary sector, AICs saw an increase in technological knowledge that pushes up the demand for upskilled labour while pushing down the demand for both capital and unskilled labour, therefore jobs require an increasingly higher level of technological knowledge at all levels (Khayyat & Lee, 2014). As structural change in the labour demand pattern has occurred in AICs, as part of the globalisation process (Cagnin et al, 2013;Haegeman et al, 2013), some speculation has been made about the projection of future skills needs and demand (Gallouj et al, 2014).…”

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“…Knowledge-based economies need to develop skills for enhancing technological innovation through an educational system which promotes not only scientific and technological knowledge but also critical thinking and problem solving (Khayyat & Lee, 2014). While the European Community forecasts an increase in the demand for technical skills as part of the natural future skills demand of knowledge-based economies (CEDEFOP, 2012), the UK offers a depressing prospect for technological knowledge and skills development, with only 21.8% of the country's population showing numeracy competency at Level 2 or above (BIS, 2012, p. 3).…”

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Clashing institutional interests in skills between government and industry: An analysis of demand for technical and soft skills of graduates in the UK

Cacciolatti

Lee

Molinero

2017

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

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Technological knowledge and skills provide a basis for developing national competitiveness. However, there is an emerging clash of interests in the UK labour market between employers and policy makers. The former requests highly skilled workers who often jealously train in house for their specific operations while the latter aims to reduce unemployment through the expansion of vocational training to lower skilled workers. Universities need to find their strategic position in the knowledge economy characterised by radical technological change and shifting occupational structure by meeting the future skills demand while balancing between the clashing institutional interests. This study analyses 510 job advertisements in the supply chain management area, using a combination of OMDS and HCA techniques. The advertisements are categorised by means of six dimensions according to the skills, duties and job type. This study analyses not only employers' needs in skill types according to job roles but also emerging institutional clashes in the job market and their implications for skills training policy and curriculum development.

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“…Many research studies measure and rank countries (Malul et al 2009;Eckehard 2011;Stiglitz et al 2009a;Radojicic et al 2012;Høyland et al 2012;Pérez-Ortiz et al 2014;Khayyat, Lee 2016) using different methods based on economic, political, environmental, social and/or many other indicators. Rank can show and measure a country's level of economic development.…”

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A comparative analysis of development in Southeast European countries

Jednak

Kragulj

Bulajić

2015

Technological and Economic Development of Economy

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Abstract. There are different kinds of indicators which measure levels of development. The use of varying methods could alter the ranking of a particular country. In this paper, Southeast European countries are ranked according to the World Bank, the UNDP and the I-distance method. The aim of the paper is to provide a comparison between the ranking results obtained with those methods for the period 2007-2012. The principal objective of the study is the ranking of SEE countries using the I-distance technique -a multivariate statistical method for ranking entities -and to discover whether this method gives a better ranking of countries than income per capita and the HDI. To answer this question, similar variables of economic development are used within the research methods. Due to the observed period, some government finance variables are also included. Despite certain limitations, such as lack of data for SEE countries, the results show that the ranks of countries are highly similar regardless of the method used. Nevertheless, there are some differences in the countries' rankings in some years: there are small differences from year to year both in terms of HDI and GNI per capita. However, the I-distance method shows greater differences between countries.

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A measure of technological capabilities for developing countries

Cited by 54 publications

References 43 publications

A Study of Telecommunication Policies and Broadband Penetration for Sweden and South Korea

A Study of Telecommunication Policies and Broadband Penetration for Sweden and South Korea

Clashing institutional interests in skills between government and industry: An analysis of demand for technical and soft skills of graduates in the UK

A comparative analysis of development in Southeast European countries

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