Innovation‚ IPRs‚ Tech. Transfer and Diffusion Universidade do Minho 2011-2012 Teacher: Ana Paula Faria (apfaria@eeg.uminho.pt). Student: Rosario D’Auria Erasmus student: E4407 Email: rosar.dauria@gmail.com Phone: 927672892 Assignment #2 – HIGH TECH INDUSTRIES AND KNOWLEDGE INTESIVE SERVICES Due date: 17-NOV-2011 It doesn’t exist a single authoritative methodology to define high-tech industries. The organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) identifies high-tech industries
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Closing the High-Tech Gender Gap This year’s Lemelson-MIT Prize winner discusses grassroots ways for boosting the number of women in technology and business. I have a confession to make: I’ve been living under a rock. I’ve actually been busy under here — running a bioengineering lab at MIT‚ starting companies‚ teaching‚ consulting‚ being a mom. But I’ve been so focused on keeping all the balls in the air that‚ until recently‚ I hadn’t noticed that women typically aren’t the ones starting
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In the article “High Tech Trash” by Chris Caroll‚ Caroll explains the effects of e-waste (electronic trash). The article mentioned how most electronics that are thrown out‚ donated to charity‚ or even recycled still end up in developing countries. “While some recyclers process the material with an eye toward minimizing pollution and health risk‚ many more sell it to brokers who ship it to the developing world‚ where environmental enforcement is weak” (Caroll 81). This causes our e-waste to affect
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Thanks to subliminal advertising and propaganda drilled into our head since we were little‚ we have come to associate certain foods with wholesomeness and others with nastiness. When we look at the GMO and high-tech food mess from this perspective‚ we see that it’s the organic-versus-regular battle. What it really boils down‚ however‚ is that it’s the producer agenda have be pushed onto the consumer’s mind. They have made us believe that we want and need certain food items in order to be social
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tim tomas 3-31-14 Eng 1020 Instructor Faulk Rhetorical Analysis As a college student in todays world technology is all around. It comes in many forms such as laptops‚ cell phones‚ tablets and many more. It seems every college student has either a smart phone or a laptop if not both. College students rely heavily on technology for homework and research and also for connecting with friends on social media websites. Many people have created Facebook or Twitter accounts. The sites have spread worldwide
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Daniel Boateng-Kontoh Dr. Chewning English 101-301 October 2‚ 2013 Free distribution of condoms to high school and college students In response to their quest to explore their sexuality‚ high school and college students are sometimes provided condoms by the government and various higher educational institutions. This recent measure has been criticized both positively and negatively under the social‚ religious‚ and economic aspects of life. Taking sides in a matter as such may not be the most
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Parking on Campus Parking on Campus is a problem when students entering Arkansas Tech University are allowed to have a car on campus. With every new student entering each year‚ parking is a problem. Arkansas Tech University is already limited the places for parking on campus and since new students are allowed to have cars. Many parking problems are exits all over the campus‚ Arkansas Tech University should set up more parking lots on campus‚ because it is more convenient for students to have more
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Selected answer key for problem set 1 Econ262 C1.2 (i) There are 1‚388 observations in the sample. Tabulating the variable cigs shows that 212 women have cigs > 0. (ii) The average of cigs is about 2.09‚ but this includes the 1‚176 women who did not smoke. Reporting just the average masks the fact that almost 85 percent of the women did not smoke. It makes more sense to say that the “typical” woman does not smoke during pregnancy; indeed‚ the median number
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Microeconomics (Fall 2014) Simon Bowmaker Problem Set 6 Submit at lecture (Monday‚ November 10) Write your answers on separate sheets of paper. Please include: your name your recitation teacher’s name day and time of the recitation NB: if your recitation takes place on Monday morning‚ you must submit your assignment to your teacher at the beginning of the recitation. 1. Assume a monopolist faces the following market demand: Q = 100 - 2P. The monopolist’s total cost function is TC = 5+8Q2. What
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Descriptive Statistics and Probability Distribution Problem Sets Emily Noah QNT561 Anthony Matias December 24‚ 2012 Descriptive Statistics and Probability Distribution Problems Sets Descriptive statistics and probability distribution is two ways to find information with certain data giving. In Descriptive statistics the data can give a mode‚ mean‚ median‚ and range by the numerical information‚ which is giving to find the information. In probability distribution the data is collected and this is
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