Bangalore and Karachi IT Industry in the Light of Innovation Systems and Historical Prospect

A current growth in the field of information technology is certainly innovative in nature. In size and ease of access, knowledge and information are growing. Prospect decision makers in many fields will be accessible with extraordinary new tools for growth. In fields like health, agriculture, human resources, education and business improvement, transport or environmental improvement the consequences actually could be innovatory. Communication and IT have huge potential particularly for growing nations and in furthering sustainable growth. India and Pakistan two growing nations of Asia pacific now a day doing great performance in the field of IT and have different advantages on each other in this field. Indian city Bangalore is known as Silicon Valley of India due to its great contributions in IT field of the country. Karachi city of Pakistan also well recognized in this field. IT industry of both cities working under different IT policies like Karnataka state of India in which Bangalore city is located has its own IT policy under through this industry is going on and Karachi city of Pakistan which is situated in Sindh province of Pakistan has no IT policy and IT industry of Karachi city is working under National IT policy of Pakistan. Study based on how Karachi and Bangalore contribute in the economic development of their respective countries through IT industry, what kind of institutional arrangements both cities have in respect of innovation system and to know whether there is National Innovation System, Regional Innovation System or they are Industrial Clusters

Re-Imagining Journalism: Local News for a Networked World

Details strategies for realizing healthy local information ecologies through for-profit and nonprofit media; higher education and community institutions; emphasis on relevance, research, and revenues; and government support. Includes case summaries

Annual General Assembly of the International Association of Maritime Universities

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Unleashing Africa's Entrepreneurs: Improving the Enabling Environment for Start-Ups

The research and policy arm of the Tony Elumelu Foundation, the Africapitalism Institute, released a groundbreaking study on Africa's entrepreneurial ecosystem at the sixth Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Kenya where President Obama gave the keynote address.The 86-page report, titled Unleashing Africa's Entrepreneurs, based on original research leveraging the Foundation's pan-African network of early stage African businesses, identifies and analyses the factors inhibiting the potential of entrepreneurs across Africa.Key findings from the report include:87 percent of respondents indicated that obtaining the necessary seed capital was their primary challenge. Only 3 percent of those surveyed had a commercial bank loan, while 69 percent used personal savings to finance their business.53 percent of entrepreneurs indicated that it was "not at all easy" to obtain the necessary machinery, equipment, technology or raw material needed to operate, citing the high cost of land and office space as the primary cost concern. The second most costly operating expense is electric power.63 percent of respondents said that government needs to "improve the general quality of infrastructure" as a key to reducing overall costs which are hurting their competitiveness.82 percent of entrepreneurs said that access to a business start-up accelerator or resource center was "very important" to their business, while 66 percent indicated that they are currently part of a business incubator or accelerator

Communicating the modern entrepreneurial university in the 21st century: a case study of academic capitalism and media messaging in the pursuit of revenues and national prominence at Louisiana State University

American public universities have passed through three stages of development: the religious, the philanthropic/land-grant, and the federal research university. Squeezed by government budget cuts and demands for more money to pay for research and faculty raises, U.S. higher education has entered a fourth phase, the entrepreneurial university. Public universities are increasingly capitalizing on the intellectual property of their faculty and students to sustain themselves and expand. Administrators spout free-market rhetoric as faculty attempt to commercialize research by creating spin-off companies. Using Louisiana State University as a case study, this dissertation, applies a combination of organizational knowledge creation and resource dependence theories to analyze the emergence of academic entrepreneurialism. This study also assesses LSU’s capitalistic effectiveness against models of entrepreneurial development used by other U.S. colleges and frames entrepreneurial communication within the context of the state’s political environment, state budget cuts, and tuition waivers awarded to academically superior undergraduates. LSU messaging is compared to other peer public universities and scrutinized within the framework of results from a national public opinion survey on LSU’s image. Results suggest strong support for the concept of university entrepreneurialism, but indicate the American public, aside from athletics, doesn’t know much about LSU academics or research. Testing of LSU-related messages, meanwhile, advances themes that resonate among respondents and provide potential communication paths for increasing LSU’s national academic prominence and entrepreneurial success

Знание иностранного языка как основной фактор для работы в инновационных условиях

В сборник включены материалы докладов 80-й студенчекой научно-технической конференции «Знание иностранного языка как основной фактор для работы в инновационных условиях» по кафедре «Английский язык №1» факультета горного дела и инженерной экологии

The Nigeria Leadership Initiative White Papers: Volume 1

These White Papers attempt to address many of these challenges, showing the need for urgent action, deconstructing where possible root causes, and making practical suggestions on actions to be taken

CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IN ROMANIA

The purpose of this paper is to identify the main opportunities and limitations of corporate social responsibility (CSR). The survey was defined with the aim to involve the highest possible number of relevant CSR topics and give the issue a more wholesome perspective. It provides a basis for further comprehension and deeper analyses of specific CSR areas. The conditions determining the success of CSR in Romania have been defined in the paper on the basis of the previously cumulative knowledge as well as the results of various researches. This paper provides knowledge which may be useful in the programs promoting CSR.Corporate social responsibility, Supportive policies, Romania