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Technological innovation is a core aspect of corporate and national
competitiveness and it is not only complex—requiring cooperation
and coordination among many stakeholders—but it also involves
high risk due to uncertainty. Financial markets are a key to
successful technological innovation. This book looks at how
traditional financing and non-traditional ones transform corporate
innovation strategy. This book reviews Korean companies to
illustrate the impact of financialization on technological
innovation through the relationships among financialization,
managerial myopia and short-termism of innovation strategy. It does
so by conducting an empirical study using Korean firm and USPTO
data from the period of 1980 to 2017. By analyzing the innovation
capabilities of Korean companies and presenting indicators of
technological competitiveness, it offers insights into how
financialization has influenced organizational behaviour, causing
them to shift strategy formulation, decision making for production,
investment and technological innovation away from a long-term
perspective to short-term one. This concise book will be of
interest to those interested in strategy and entrepreneurship
innovation, especially policy makers focusing on financialization
or national level innovation strategies.
Technological innovation is a core aspect of corporate and national
competitiveness and it is not only complex-requiring cooperation
and coordination among many stakeholders-but it also involves high
risk due to uncertainty. Financial markets are a key to successful
technological innovation. This book looks at how traditional
financing and non-traditional ones transform corporate innovation
strategy. This book reviews Korean companies to illustrate the
impact of financialization on technological innovation through the
relationships among financialization, managerial myopia and
short-termism of innovation strategy. It does so by conducting an
empirical study using Korean firm and USPTO data from the period of
1980 to 2017. By analyzing the innovation capabilities of Korean
companies and presenting indicators of technological
competitiveness, it offers insights into how financialization has
influenced organizational behaviour, causing them to shift strategy
formulation, decision making for production, investment and
technological innovation away from a long-term perspective to
short-term one. This concise book will be of interest to those
interested in strategy and entrepreneurship innovation, especially
policy makers focusing on financialization or national level
innovation strategies.
The contributors to this book explore the current situation of
North Korea in various aspects and provide policy suggestions for
North Korea to become part of the international community and
achieve sustainable development. Focusing on three key areas of
economic development, namely, international sectors, agriculture
and urban development, and energy and environment, this book lays
out recommendations and prospects for North Korea. Authors assess
the current situation of North Korea, explore preconditions for
becoming a member of the international community, and suggest
policies necessary for the sustainable development of North Korea.
They cover a wide range of areas including reforestation, WTO
accession, and the potential for economic integration with South
Korea. These evaluations draw on both what is understood about the
current situation in North Korea and comparisons with other
countries and territories. This book will be a valuable resource
for scholars and policy planners who focus on North Korea.
The contributors to this book explore the current situation of
North Korea in various aspects and provide policy suggestions for
North Korea to become part of the international community and
achieve sustainable development. Focusing on three key areas of
economic development, namely, international sectors, agriculture
and urban development, and energy and environment, this book lays
out recommendations and prospects for North Korea. Authors assess
the current situation of North Korea, explore preconditions for
becoming a member of the international community, and suggest
policies necessary for the sustainable development of North Korea.
They cover a wide range of areas including reforestation, WTO
accession, and the potential for economic integration with South
Korea. These evaluations draw on both what is understood about the
current situation in North Korea and comparisons with other
countries and territories. This book will be a valuable resource
for scholars and policy planners who focus on North Korea.
Korea was the first non-G7 member and Asian country to host the
recent G20 Summit, acting as a bridge between advanced and
developing nations. At the G20 Seoul Summit, green growth as well
as development and a global financial safety net were on the
agenda. Against this backdrop, the aim of this book is to comment
on and suggest how to go about setting agendas and shaping further
discussions of future summits. The book consists of three major
parts: the first part discusses the role of G20 in reforming
international monetary system, the status of the IMF since the
European sovereign debt crisis, the use of the yuan as the world's
reserve currency, and the establishment of a more resilient global
financial system. The second part examines trade measures in times
of volatile energy prices, the impact of merchandise price
volatility on the G20 economies, the EU's pricing policies and the
world's price volatility, high oil prices and Russia, and oil
markets in South America. The third part reviews G20's financing
for green growth, green growth and sustainable development within
the G20 framework, and G20's role in addressing climate change and
green growth. This book offers an in-depth review of major issues
discussed at the recent summits and will be of interest to policy
makers.
This book covers nine countries of ASEAN and the East Asian area,
including major Asian countries, and compares their respective
policies to attract Foreign Direct Investments (FDI). Through
comparative study of FDI promotion policies, this book will give
policy makers in the area of FDI promotion an overview and
comparison of the FDI policies of other countries. In addition,
researchers at graduate, post-graduate or professional level will
gain from the econometric methodology and detailed definitions of
various spillover effects (horizontal and vertical), which will be
beneficial to their research. In addition to FDI policy comparison,
this book focuses on the various spillover effects of FDI. It
separates it into categories: own productivity effects;
intra-industry spillover effects; and inter-industry spillover
effects (forward and backward linkage effects). While most other
studies have only taken econometric tests on own-productivity and
intra-industry spillovers, a key advantage to this book is that it
also covers the separate effects of inter-industry linkages.
Through policy comparison and econometric tests on various
spillover effects on economic growth, employment and exports, this
book will give policy makers and researchers an innovative and
constructive guide to FDI.
This book introduces the latest visual effects (VFX) techniques
that can be applied to game programming. The usefulness of the
physicality-based VFX techniques, such as water, fire, smoke, and
wind, has been proven through active involvement and utilization in
movies and images. However, they have yet to be extensively applied
in the game industry, due to the high technical barriers. Readers
of this book can learn not only the theories about the latest VFX
techniques, but also the methodology of game programming, step by
step. The practical VFX processing techniques introduced in this
book will provide very helpful information to game programmers. Due
to the lack of instructional books about VFX-related game
programming, the demand for knowledge regarding these high-tech
VFXs might be very high.
This book reviews the research in various fields of oceanography on
the responses of the East Japan Sea to climate change. The
uniqueness of the East Japan Sea comes from the rapid and amplified
response to climate change, which includes long-terms trends of
physical and chemical parameters at a rate that almost doubles or
even higher the global rate. This book aims to provide in an
organized way the results from the previously published knowledge
but also to introduce an updated view of the research recently
carried out. The book is divided into several parts that comprise
the physical, chemical, biological, and geological aspects of the
region and fisheries. This book is made for researchers and
students working on climate variability as well as for the
oceanography community working on world's marginal seas. The
research presented in this work will also benefit to researchers
from other fields such as social scientists and environmentalists,
and also policy makers.
This book introduces the latest visual effects (VFX) techniques
that can be applied to game programming. The usefulness of the
physicality-based VFX techniques, such as water, fire, smoke, and
wind, has been proven through active involvement and utilization in
movies and images. However, they have yet to be extensively applied
in the game industry, due to the high technical barriers. Readers
of this book can learn not only the theories about the latest VFX
techniques, but also the methodology of game programming, step by
step. The practical VFX processing techniques introduced in this
book will provide very helpful information to game programmers. Due
to the lack of instructional books about VFX-related game
programming, the demand for knowledge regarding these high-tech
VFXs might be very high.
Simplicity is a hard thing. As the legendary Jony Ive, Apple's
former Chief Design Officer, once said, the challenge is "to solve
incredibly complex problems and make their resolution appear
inevitable and incredibly simple". Today, as technology becomes
more complex than we can process, how do we hold on to that
precious thread of simplicity? How do we design products and
systems that are human-centred? How do we put innovation back in
our own hands, even as we drive radical digital transformation? The
Simplicity Playbook for Innovators shows the way. It introduces
five strategic shifts that will transform the way you look at your
business - from customer research to product/service development.
In each strategic shift, you will find a wealth of practical tools
that have been applied and tested, particularly in legacy companies
dealing with complex processes and systems. When we focus on
simplicity instead of innovation-for-the-sake-of-innovation,
customers love the experience. With this illuminating step-by-step
guide, you will rediscover how to focus on what really matters for
your business, and learn the methods to create experiences that win
customers' hearts.
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Computer Applications for Bio-technology, Multimedia and Ubiquitous City - International Conferences, MulGraB, BSBT and IUrC 2012, Held as Part of the Future Generation Information Technology Conference, FGIT 2012, Gangneug, Korea, December 16-19, 2012. Proceedings (Paperback, 2012 ed.)
Tai-Hoon Kim, Jeong Jin Kang, William I. Grosky, Tughrul Arslan, Niki Pissinou
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This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the
International Conferences, BSBT, MulGraB and IUrC 2012, held as
part of the Future Generation Information Technology Conference,
FGIT 2012, Gangneung, Korea, in December 2012. The papers presented
were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions and
focus on the various aspects of multimedia, computer graphics and
broadcasting, bio-science and bio-technology, and intelligent urban
computing.
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Convergence and Hybrid Information Technology - 6th International Conference, ICHIT 2012, Daejeon, Korea, August 23-25, 2012. Proceedings (Paperback, 2012 ed.)
Geuk Lee, Daniel Howard, Jeong Jin Kang, Dominik Slezak
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th
International Conference on Convergence and Hybrid Information
Technology, ICHIT 2012, held in Daejeon, Korea, in August 2012. The
94 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and
selected from 196 submissions. The papers are organized in topical
sections on communications and networking; HCI and virtual reality;
image processing and pattern recognition; hardware design and
applications; computational biology and medical information; data
mining and information retrieval; security and safety system;
software engineering; workshop on advanced smart convergence
(IWASC).
Korea was the first non-G7 member and Asian country to host the
recent G20 Summit, acting as a bridge between advanced and
developing nations. At the G20 Seoul Summit, green growth as well
as development and a global financial safety net were on the
agenda. Against this backdrop, the aim of this book is to comment
on and suggest how to go about setting agendas and shaping further
discussions of future summits. The book consists of three major
parts: the first part discusses the role of G20 in reforming
international monetary system, the status of the IMF since the
European sovereign debt crisis, the use of the yuan as the world's
reserve currency, and the establishment of a more resilient global
financial system. The second part examines trade measures in times
of volatile energy prices, the impact of merchandise price
volatility on the G20 economies, the EU's pricing policies and the
world's price volatility, high oil prices and Russia, and oil
markets in South America. The third part reviews G20's financing
for green growth, green growth and sustainable development within
the G20 framework, and G20's role in addressing climate change and
green growth. This book offers an in-depth review of major issues
discussed at the recent summits and will be of interest to policy
makers.
This book covers nine countries of ASEAN and the East Asian area,
including major Asian countries, and compares their respective
policies to attract Foreign Direct Investments (FDI). Through
comparative study of FDI promotion policies, this book will give
policy makers in the area of FDI promotion an overview and
comparison of the FDI policies of other countries. In addition,
researchers at graduate, post-graduate or professional level will
gain from the econometric methodology and detailed definitions of
various spillover effects (horizontal and vertical), which will be
beneficial to their research. In addition to FDI policy comparison,
this book focuses on the various spillover effects of FDI. It
separates it into categories: own productivity effects;
intra-industry spillover effects; and inter-industry spillover
effects (forward and backward linkage effects). While most other
studies have only taken econometric tests on own-productivity and
intra-industry spillovers, a key advantage to this book is that it
also covers the separate effects of inter-industry linkages.
Through policy comparison and econometric tests on various
spillover effects on economic growth, employment and exports, this
book will give policy makers and researchers an innovative and
constructive guide to FDI.
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Longing For God (Hardcover)
Marie Debbie Lee; Illustrated by Jin Kang
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No Sleep (Hardcover)
Hee Jin Kang; Introduction by Jonathan Ames
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For her series "No Sleep," Hee Jin Kang photographs mattresses
abandoned on the streets of New York City, mostly in Brooklyn.
Kang's work reveals the unexpected beauty and strangeness of these
found urban still lifes. The discarded beds are pathetic,
monolithic, and architectural. They lay naked against walls and on
curbs, sometimes seedy and sometimes luminous.
Hee Jin Kang, based in Brooklyn, New York, has exhibited her
work internationally, including at the Hayward Gallery, London; the
Musee de l'Elysee, Lausanne; and Culturgest, Lisbon. "No Sleep,"
with an introduction by Jonathan Ames, is her first monograph.
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