Recent postsIn part 2 of the series I looked at India and how it tries to implement a large scale operation to upgrade its educational and competitive capability. Today’s example is the United Kingdom, a developed country with steady population and the longest tradition in industry and technology in modern history.
It is the homeland of some [...]
The introductory part of this series stressed the close relationship between technological education/training, employment opportunities and competitiveness. Part 2 is devoted to India, as an example of a rising technological star with large population and high promises.
Unlike China and its manufacturing prowess, India has so far mainly specialised on the service part of the economy. [...]
I have decided to start a small series on employment & competitiveness, and their close relationship to technical know-how. Having lived and worked in different countries and regions in Europe, I have noticed that there is a pattern. In dynamic or traditionally industrial areas there is places and companies that have more steady employment, whereas [...]
In technological comparisons between the EU and the US it is almost always forgotten that in both blocks a few states contribute a large piece of the technological pie and raise the average that eventually appears in the statistics. This state for the US is of course good old California. In the EU, although Germany [...]
