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Teams have evolved into an important structure in business today--and are now needed more than ever. An insightful collection of activities, Team Workout provides facilitators, trainers, leaders, and managers with a wide variety of tools to increase team effectiveness and upgrade skills and knowledge within todays challenging organizational environment.

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This book compiles state-of-the-art commentary on teamwork, team training, and team performance. This volume also discusses team taxonomic issues, the performance of individual team members, team performance evaluation, mathematical models, Petri nets, teamwork guidelines, and both military and civilian teamwork applications.

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We should be grateful to Ostry and Nelson for giving clarity and balance to interrelated subjects too often dominated by passion and muddle. Keith Pavitt, University of Sussex Sylvia Ostry is chair of the Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto.

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Looking at the importance of Japan's continuing dominance in world industry, this book deals with the issue of global competitiveness, analyzing the transition that Japan has made from being a technological follower to a technological leader.

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With reference to concrete cases of technological retrogression a new conceptual framework is developed

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The knowledge and managerial skills Watkins outlines would be useful to any size firm from entrepreneurial start-ups to multinational corporations.

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The author's primary purpose is to compare the effects of the different technologies offered by the two groups--the capital-intensive technologies of the West and the labor-intensive technologies of the Eastern bloc--on the economic growth of developing countries, as measured by growth in output.

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Part I analyzes federal competitiveness policy, the decontrolling of technology transfer, the role of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the emerging role of the Department of Defense in Technology Transfer.

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Looks at how Scandinavia was transformed, from one of the poorest regions of Europe to one of the richest during the 19th century, through the acquisition of advanced technological capability from abroad.

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A toolbox for accessing federal laboratory innovations and financing the acquisition of new technologies with corporate equity, this book is also a guide to understanding the expertise of specific government laboratories.

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The book balances broad-brush macro-policy issues with the nitty gritty micro-project orientation. Development professionals and policy makers as well as knowledgeable laypersons, who want to make the process mutually beneficial, will find much food for thought in this book.

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Sahu examines the Indian pharmaceutical and machine-tool industries to test out theories of technological transfer and technological dependence and self-reliance.

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Assesses the current state of knowledge and note the advances since the initial colloquium; examine recent contributions in light of the heightened awareness of the complexity of the R&D process; and review the broader implications of the contributions of research in areas such as education, health, the environment, and quality of life.

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This book chronicles the life story of Ted Turner-cable television mogul, successful baseball team owner, and fascinating public figure.

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Recent work in the field of telecommunication economics, with particluar emphasis on its international regulatory aspects, is the focus of the present volume, which assembles an annotated bibliography of nearly four hundred authoritative and up-to-date books and articles on more than fifteen related topics.

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