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Wave Tata to the Nano if you live in Europe or the US. |
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Written by The Sceptic
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Tuesday, 12 May 2009 |
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What is 3 metres long, seats four comfortably or five at a squeeze, does 65mph and aims to revolutionise travel for millions. The “People’s Car” is also the cheapest in the world at 100,000 rupees (£1,300) – the same price as the DVD player in a Lexus... the Nano from Tata Motors. |
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Innovation in Modernity: An Investigation into the Challenge of Biotechnology |
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Written by Kemal Ahson
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Monday, 17 November 2008 |
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Biotechnology is of strategic importance to modern capitalist societies. But it is currently in a controversial and transitory phase of development. The current concern with food security and the increase in food prices has brought the issue of biotechnology to the fore. For instance, will biotechnology provide us with real and tangible solutions to food production and agriculture? This book examines contemporary innovation in agro-food biotechnology. It identifies the products and processes associated with agro-food biotechnology, and the means by which they come about. In particular, it investigates the connections and interactions between various cultural, economic, political, scientific, social and technological elements in biotechnological innovation, some of the features of where and how innovation takes place, and the key actors and institutions that influence these arrangements and interactions. It treats innovation in agro-food biotechnology as a phenomenon embedded in broader human-technology relations, and develops a multi-dimensional approach to the understanding of biotechnological innovation.
To order a copy:
http://www.lulu.com/content/4297994 |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 20 November 2008 )
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Skills and the SME: Revisiting the Leitch Review of Skill |
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Written by Kemal Ahson
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Monday, 11 August 2008 |
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In 2004, the Government commissioned Sandy Leitch to undertake an independent review of the UK's long term skills needs. The Review published its interim report "Skills in the UK: the long term challenge" in December 2005. It committed the Review, in its final report, to identify the UK’s skills mix for 2020 to maximise economic growth, productivity and social justice. It also set out the balance of responsibility for achieving that skills profile and considered the policy framework required to support it. |
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Developing Supply Chain Policy |
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Written by Kemal Ahson
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Thursday, 19 June 2008 |
At first glance the particularities of supply chains related to different industrial sectors appear distant from the process of policy deliberation and decision. But the practical experience of businesses and entrepreneurs, their accumulated knowledge from the delivery of business services, and their underlying understanding of market need, must play a part in developing adequate policy measures.
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Responsible procurement and the credit crunch |
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Written by Kemal Ahson
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Saturday, 19 April 2008 |
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As the global economy - and the business community in particular - comes to terms with the growing uncertainties brought about by the current financial and credit crisis it is useful to consider whether this may impact upon the supplier diversity (SD) agenda. |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 20 November 2008 )
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Where’s the ‘Think Small First’ agenda gone? |
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Written by Kemal Ahson
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Monday, 22 October 2007 |
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The ‘Think Small First’ approach in public procurement gained credibility over the last few years. Estimates of the size of the public procurement market vary – some sources put the annual value of public sector contracts placed at over £100 billion. And there is some sense that using small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to deliver goods and services in the public sector brings innovation and ‘best value’. Moreover, by encouraging the use of SMEs in public procurement, there is some evidence to suggest that wider socio-economic benefits can accrue. |
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 14 June 2008 )
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