Regulation In High Tech Markets

This document records the oral and written testimony of witnesses at a Congressional hearing on U.S. needs for training in high technology areas. Testimony was given by local officials, corporate officials, a union representative, and two professors of engineering from universities in Indiana. Testimony centered on jobs and job training, reforming the education system, and international competition. Witnesses testified that government regulations that cause excess paperwork and prevent industries from being competitive should be changed. They also talked about the burdensome health care system that saps productivity with ever-rising costs as well as the need for workers to learn new skills. Skills in life management, conflict resolution, cooperation, and problem solving were advocated for workers. Witnesses also advocated more cooperative problem solving and strategizing by the various sectors of the economy. (KC)

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Innovative actIvItIes on the development of which Russia puts its hopes for the preservation and successful reconstruction of the former USSR applied science are based on three key factors: funding, infrastructure and management. These factors are of equal significance, however, under today's economic conditions in Russian two latter ones become of critical importance. This determines the range of readers to whom the present book is addressed: - representatives of official institutions both Russian and international in charge of technological and scientific sphere reorganization, high-tech industry conversion, market transformations under transit economies; ~ Western experts, lecturers, consultants participating in the implementation of various bilateral and international programs according to the above mentioned directions; - Russian specialists establishing new high-tech enterprises and organizations and corresponding innovative infrastructure. This book brought to readers' attention includes edited presentations at NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) "Concept of Management Training for in High-Tech, Science and R&D" (1-5 July, 1996, St.Petersburg, Russia).

This is a reprint of a previously published work. It deals with how emerging technologies have affected financial markets and their regualtion.

This text rigorously blends theory with real-world applications to study the industrial organisation of the ICT sector. Each of the self-contained chapters, which can be studied in isolation, contains theoretical models that are presented in a clear an

This book examines if the conceptual underpinnings of competition law and international regulatory mechanisms can properly deal with the new economy.