Industry and technology

Technology, Industry and Economics

Subprogramme 16.8 Industry and technology

Subprogramme 4 Technology, industry and economics

A. Space industry cooperation and technology exchange

Confirm a leading role for Swiss industry in the Automated Transfer Vehicle

In the manufacturing industry, some leading technology driven SINTNCs such as Creative Technology (PC sound cards), Aztech Systems (ADSL products) and Singapore Technologies Engineering have benefited enormously from their operations in the United States, which allow them to gain access to cutting edge technology.

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Space technology provided a reservoir of potential solutions for the industry.

Transfers of technology became possible and led the Polish aviation industry to also enter the space technology market.

Banji Oyelaran Oyeyinka (1996), Technological Learning in Africa Industry The Engineering Industry in Nigeria , African Technology Policy Studies Network Research Report, Nairobi.

It was not simply the case that technology was handed directly to industry.

The activities under the industry and technology subprogramme were subsumed under other subprogrammes.

Capacity Building in Palm Oil Industry, Livestock Breeding and Animal Faltering Technology in Sierra Leone.

The industry opportunities in the area of spin offs of space technology were also great.

Collaboration with industry might further strengthen the process of identifying technology information needs and solutions.

FOSS also made business sense, and many leading technology firms used FOSS for critical tasks.

Since the 1980s, the space technology and research industry of China had implemented a policy of applying space technology to benefit other national industries.

14.48 The Division of Technology, Industry and Economics is responsible for the implementation of this subprogramme.

(c) Co operating with research laboratories and industry to encourage research and development of adaptation technology

In the next few years regulations will top the issues that will critically affect the industry, leading towards more regulatory harmonization.

46. Since the 1980s, the space technology and research industry of China had implemented a policy of applying space technology to benefit other national industries.

The Chinese space industry endeavoured to apply space technology to common and special projects and had achieved significant results in noise reduction, electromagnetic shielding, surface processing, anti seismic consolidation technology, flame proof technology, modern greenhouse technology and environmental protection technology among others.

34. FAO s cooperation with international industry associations has facilitated trade, technology transfer and investment in developing countries.

See Boucher P., Technology versus industry practices , February 2003, available at http www.findarticles.com p articles mi_qa4088 is_200302 ai_n9176581.

The centres worked with the innovative process model in high technology development aiming to benefit a specific industry.

Subsequent phases involved technology transfer from the space agency to industry, with buy back guarantees for the products.

64. The application demand was an important driving force for the development of space industry and space technology.

The development of space industry and space technology in general was accelerating the operationalization of remote sensing applications.

357. With the establishment of the pre eminence of the offshore oil and gas industry in the non living marine resource sector, advances in marine technology and research and development in marine technology have been related predominantly to that industry. In the year of the fiftieth anniversary of the industry, such predominance has been more marked than ever.

The representatives of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation and some private enterprises attended the congress and showed the latest achievements in aerospace industry in China, including different types of carrier rockets, satellites and aerospace technology application products.

We will work together with Irish industry and partner companies in Africa to promote trade, investment and technology transfer.

The new Vietnamese initiative of the Division of Technology, Industry and Economics, mentioned above, is a case in point.

Major traditional tour operators have joined leading suppliers of e business solutions to the travel industry that often power a large number of websites.

Offices and departments still maintain independent information technology units leading to unnecessary duplication of functions and waste of resources.

At present, space industry enterprises are converting their production capacities to civilian uses for turning out world standard high technology competitive products relying, among other things, on space technology.

Focal points for the Bali Strategic Plan have been created in the Division of Environmental Policy Implementation (capacity building) and the Division of Technology, Industry and Economics (technology transfer).

45. In November 1996, the Government placed a 12 page advertisement in the industry leading Mining Journal intended to promote investment in the mining sector.

This is the most disruptive technology I've been told by executives of the pesticide industry that they have ever witnessed.

In the late 1970s many government incentives were given in Brazil for industry to start industries based in high technology.

No. 9703 Technology Acquisition, De regulation and Competitiveness A Study of the Indian Automobile Industry , by Krishnan Narayanan, September 1997

But for this part of the story, I'd actually like to throw it to America's leading technology correspondent, John Markoff.

Communique Issued Following the High Level Meeting on Steel, 28 29 June 2004. (OECD Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry) www.oecd.org.

The WCO IT Conference in April 2005 provided a forum for industry and customs experts to discuss information technology best practices.

Space research in Switzerland is performed individually by various laboratories of the universities, the Federal Institute of Technology and Industry Laboratories.