Suchergebnisse

Utopia, travel and empire -- Heimat anticipation and postcolonial literatures -- The ambiguous necessity of utopia -- Remembering the future: time and utopia in African literature -- Beyond the nation-state -- Writing and re-writing India -- Borderland heterotopia: Aztlán and the Chicano nation -- Archipelago of dreams: utopianism in Caribbean literature -- Oceanic hope: utopianism in the Pacific -- Settler colony utopianism

Papers presented at a national seminar held at Bodh Gaya in 2004

Innovation plays a crucial role in improving a firm's performance. The relationship between innovation and productivity has been widely analysed during this decade across countries and industries, generating important new findings. This study aims to provide an overall literature review on the relationship between innovation and the productivity of firms to obtain a comprehensive overview of the role innovation plays in changing productivity. By reviewing existing empirical evidence, one can better understand the different measurements of innovation and productivity. This study also provides a discussion on methods adopted to quantify the relationship between innovation and productivity: CDM model, IV regression, and system-GMM approach.
JEL classification: D22, D24, O30

In a rather loose, personal way I would like to address myself to the problems of the extremely tenuous position that African literature holds in the American university, and to a step that has recently been taken towards ameliorating the situation. As much of what I will present is admittedly subjective, I hope to raise questions and precipitate discussion, having no desire to pre-empt debate with an airtight argument.

Based on Said's understanding of literature's worldliness, Hayot's concept of literary worlds, and Cheah's interpretation of worlding, the article – itself an example of "traveling theory" (Said) – proposes to treat world literature in a "secular" perspective, i.e., as an asymmetrical world-system that conditions a transcultural and translinguistic semiosis of literary worlds. The literary world-system, which arises from and is dependent on and responsive to the modern world-system of capitalism (see Warwick Research Collective) channels interliterary exchange in a way that is homologous to the economic inequality between the centers, which are capable of accumulating surplus value, and the peripheries, which enable the global dominance of the centers by providing the market, labor, and resources for the goods produced or distributed by the centers.

The European Union (EU) promotes European innovation. Diverse stakeholders have opportunities to create knowledge by engaging in innovation projects. So-ciety expects that projects review how they impact on the community and how they share knowledge and deliver outcomes. This systematic literature review is based on a key word search and analysis of a final sample of 31 academic papers by extracting relevant data from the articles into a Data Extraction Table (DET). Results indicate that four main themes discussed emerge from the sam-ple literature: ICT alignment, Organisational Culture, Innovation Culture, and ICT-readiness. Organizational Learning approaches can provide a framework to design methodology for conducting Societal Impact Assessment, and E-skills and Training. This study specifically adds to the body of knowledge of ap-proaches to organisational learning This perspective can provide additional el-ements towards the development of a more comprehensive Societal Impact As-sessment Toolkit and E-skills and Training Toolkit for the ECHO project.