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Information technology for the welfare of mankind
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1984THE PRINCIPAL thrust of activities within the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society is the development and use of the methods of systems engineering, together with the strongest of emphasis on human-system interaction concerns, for the design of knowledge-based cybernetic systems and processes that support human activities in planning, design ...
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Technological Innovation and Welfare
Concepts and Transformation, 1998The first part of this article presents a brief analysis of the reasons why the immense amount of technological innovation in (old and new) industrialized countries does not seem to have contributed to any increase in social welfare. It is argued that the support from the political system to multinational firms' strategies for globalization is too ...
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Interoperability and Convergence for Welfare Technology
2018Interoperability and convergence are two key features of any working sociotechnical infrastructure that includes a plurality and multiplicity of communities of practice using technologies. However, as information systems scale up and the heterogeneity of users increases, it becomes challenging to actualise interoperability and convergence.
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Technology licensing, R&D and welfare
Economics Letters, 2013zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
Chang, RY (Chang, Ray-Yun) +2 more
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Universal Design and Welfare Technology
2016The paper presents the background for the increased interest for and use of welfare technology. It discusses current definitions of welfare technology and suggests a typology of this technology based on the different definitions. It compares the definitions with that of assistive technology and endeavors to draw a clearer limit between them, in ...
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MEDICAL INSURANCE, TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE, AND WELFARE
Economic Inquiry, 1984Concerns have been expressed about the welfare effects of expensive innovations in medical care financed largely through medical insurance. This paper develops a model which considers such issues. It is shown that even if insurance is purchased optimally (subject to a plausible constraint on the form of the contract), innovations may be adopted that ...
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The Contribution of Information Technology to Consumer Welfare
Information Systems Research, 1996Over the past two decades, American businesses have invested heavily in information technology (IT) hardware. Managers often buy IT to enhance customer value in ways that are poorly measured by conventional output statistics. Furthermore, because of competition, firms may be unable to capture the full benefits of the value they create. This undermines
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Welfare and technology in the network society—Concerns for the future of welfare
Futures, 2012Abstract 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, 2016AbstractWe 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 +2 more
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Expectations and realities in welfare technologies
Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy, 2017PurposeThe 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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