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A new technology-driven concept of care. Insights from a Norwegian case-study
International Journal of Integrated Care, 2019 “Think big – Start small – Scale fast” declares the Norwegian Government in launching the first National Program for developing and implementing welfare technology in local care services.
Ziglioli Gloria
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Market Integration, Choice of Technology, and Welfare [PDF]
Review of International Economics, 2010 This paper develops an international trade model where firms in a duopoly may diversify their technologies for strategic reasons. The firms face the same set of technologies given by a tradeoff between marginal costs and fixed costs, but depending on trade costs firms may choose different technologies.
Hansen, Jørgen Drud +1 more
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Tariffs, Technology Transfer, and Welfare
Journal of Political Economy, 1982 It is found that the welfare gain per unit of revenue raised is maximized for an export tariff on technology transfer, followed by an import tariff on goods, with an export tariff on goods the poorest policy alternative. These results are derived within a monopolistic competition model, where the production of any good requires some initial research ...
Feenstra, Robert C, Judd, Kenneth L
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Nordisk Välfärdsforskning, 2019 Sammendrag Implementering av velferdsteknologi står høyt på agendaen i de nordiske landene for å imøtekomme utfordringene i helse- og omsorgssektoren. Hva som faller innenfor begrepet velferdsteknologi, er imidlertid ofte uklart.
Christian Lo +2 more
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Criteria of implementing feeding assistance robots in disability care
Journal of Comparative Social Work, 2013 This article discusses the entanglement of implementing welfare technology in disability care, and draws on ethnographic observations from a pilot project involving 30 disabled citizens from three different boroughs in Denmark.
Niels Christian Mossfeldt Nickelsen
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Velferdsteknologi i helse- og oppvekstyrker: Digitalt kompetansebehov i yrkesfaglig utdanning
Nordic Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2021 The fast-paced changes of the Western world community require vocational education and training (VET) that meets the future working-life needs for competence.
Solveig Dalehaug Havreberg +1 more
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Heliyon, 2020 This study explored the potential impact of rural non-farm income diversification on households' welfare and adoption of Zai-technology (a proxy for agricultural technology adoption) using primary data collected from agricultural households in the Upper ...
Gideon Danso-Abbeam +2 more
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Animals, 2023 Virtual fences for livestock facilitated by a GPS shock collar (GPS-SC) and phone app were introduced to the UK in cattle herd trials in 2020. Technology which uses aversive shocks to control livestock movement on farms and in other settings poses a ...
Iris Alexandra McCormick +1 more
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Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2019 Welfare technologies are introduced to increase the quality and efficiency of the delivery of welfare services, due to its ‘time-saving’ capacities.This study will examine that even though this might be the case, new technologies such as electronic floors, intelligent beds and electronic diapers, do more than this, they also introduce a time ...
Anders La Cour, Holger Højlund
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Implementing welfare technologies
STS Encounters, 2018 Welfare technology, along with science and innovation, is often presented as a means to solve what is referred to as the demographic challenge: an ageing population with more chronic diseases, fewer re-sources and fewer hands to take care of their needs.
Anne Marie Dahler +2 more
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