This gap can be closed if African nations focus on developing an economy that is knowledge and technology based instead of one that is based on the export of natural resources.
It presents an overview of global trends in science and technology, based on a wide range of qualitative and quantitative indicators.
On April 2011, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) is one of the latest universities to launch an open-access repository with Open Repository, based on DSpace technology.
Accessible through a mobile app for iOS and Android devices, or over the web at MINDSTORMS.COM, the interactive building instructions-based on Autodesk Inventor Publisher technology-provide an alternative to traditional instructions, bringing the building experience to life.
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Researchers at Nippon Hoso Kyokai are working with engineers at the Science and Technical Research Laboratories (STRL) to create an "optical disc recording system based on consumer Blu-ray disc technology that can spin as fast as 15, 000 RPM" without worry of a disc experiencing a complete meltdown and shattering within the drive.
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He says that the Shenzhou VI is bigger than the Shenzhou V and represents an evolution beyond the Soviet Soyuz spacecraft technology on which China had based earlier ships.
Its service is based on a technology called iBurst, developed by Arraycomm, an American firm.
License agreements typically have a 10-year term, and require the licensee to pay the owner of the technology some combination of an upfront fee, royalty payments based on sales, and per diem and travel expenses of the engineers who help transfer the know-how and technology.
We believe that Motricity continues to be well positioned to capture opportunities in the rapidly growing mobile technology sector based on our strong carrier relationships and an increasing presence in mobile marketing and advertising, and we are focusing on improving our sales execution to match that of our operations.
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Based on 30-year-old technology, IPv4 is causing an Internet address shortage because it assigns 32-bit addresses.
The new technology, called an epidermal electronic system (EES), is based on a new class of micro-electronics that integrates miniature sensors, light-emitting diodes, tiny transmitters and refined wire-filament receivers.
The real problem is an antiquated air-traffic control system "that is essentially based on World War II-era technology, " says Victoria Day, a spokeswoman with the Air Transport Association, the industry's lobby group.
China's longer-term opportunity is to build an auto industry based not on the gasoline engine but on alternative fuels, skipping a generation of technology as it has done in areas such as telecoms.
Competing based on labor costs is not an option, so they compete by having fewer employees and more advanced technology in order to be more productive than their global competitors.
While the studies may be disparate in nature, we do see a common thread in all of them: that the issue may not really be piracy, but the effects modern technology has had on buying habits- habits based on immediate availability as opposed to an economic model based on physical copies.
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