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Welfare and technology in the network society—Concerns for the future of welfare

Futures, 2012
Abstract The last decade of explosive innovation thanks to the growth of information and communication technologies (ICT) has left the public sector, and particularly the provision of welfare services, largely unchanged. Where socialising, commerce, information finding, entertainment and travel have all undergone profound structural transformations ...
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International Technology Transfer and Welfare

Review of Development Economics, 2016
AbstractWe investigate the welfare effect of international technology transfer in a quality model. A foreign innovator with a new quality product can license its innovation to the domestic firm(s) via a fixed fee. Findings show that the foreign innovator will license exclusively to the high‐quality firm under Bertrand competition, whereas it may ...
Ping‐Sing Kuo, Yan‐Shu Lin, Cheng‐Hau Peng   +2 more
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Expectations and realities in welfare technologies

Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy, 2017
PurposeThe paper aims to add knowledge on the status of the welfare technology field. Politicians in mature economies expect welfare technologies – especially digital technologies – to contribute to bridging the gap between an increasing number of elderly and a shrinking work force.
Bendik Bygstad, Gjermund Lanestedt
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Advances in Technology and Global Welfare

Humanomics, 2003
The real impact of advances in technology on global welfare is an unresolved issue. According to a recent Human Development Report, globalization based on technical advances in information technology has not had a positive impact on economies of developing countries. While advances in technology have helped improve standards of living in industrialized
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WELFARE EFFECTS OF TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER

Pacific Economic Review, 2006
Abstract.  This paper examines the welfare effects of aid tied to technology transfer in a two‐country general equilibrium model. In the recipient country, some factors of production employed in a particular industry are difficult to use in other industries because their properties are specific to that industry.
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Technological Diffusion, Expectations and Welfare.

Oxford Economic Papers, 1986
This paper investigates a simple intertemporal model to illustrate the effect of different forms of expectations formation by the buyers of technolog y on the extent and time path of the usage of a new technology. In addition, the related questions of the optimal rate oftake up of new technology, and the des ign of policies to achieve such a rate, are ...
Ireland, N, Stoneman, P
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The concept of welfare technology in Swedish municipal eldercare

Disability and Rehabilitation, 2021
Susanne Frennert, Katarina Baudin
exaly  

Technologies Used for Animal Welfare Monitoring

2022
Jonatas Santos de Souza, João Gilberto Mendes dos Reis   +1 more
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Implementation of welfare technology: a systematic review of barriers and facilitators

Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology, 2023
Viktoria Zander, Christine Gustafsson, Johan Borg   +2 more
exaly  

Understanding the possibilities and limitations of assistive technology in health and welfare services for people with intellectual disabilities, staff perspectives

Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology, 2023
Aud Elisabeth Witsø, Omid Rasouli
exaly