A Real Jobs Plan For the 21st Century

15 March 2012 Special GSN Update: Forbes Article on Brad Jensen Book, “Global Trade in Services: Fear, Facts, and Offshoring” A Real Jobs Plan For The 21st Century Ed Black, Contributor Tech Association CEO Times are tough.  So it is not surprising that so many politicians are talking about employment and jobs.  President Obama has …

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The Changing Frontier: Rethinking Science and Innovation Policy

With the 1945 publication of Science: The Endless Frontier, Vannevar Bush established an intellectual architecture that helped define a set of public science institutions that were dramatically different from what came before yet largely remain in place today.  Now, at the start of the 21st century, many aspects of the science and innovation system ­ …

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Journal of Service Science and Management – open access

Journal of Service Science and Management  December, 2011 Volume 4, Number 4 – contents  http://www.scirp.org/journal/jssm/ Enabling Innovation in Complex Welfare Service Systems Harri Jalonen, Pekka Juntunen FDI and Economic Development: Evidence from Mainland China Liyan Liu Service Value Stream Management (SVSM): Developing Lean Thinking in the Service Industry Andrea Bonaccorsi, Gionata Carmignani, Francesco Zammori Dynamic …

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Social Media Evolution & Regional Upward Spirals

Social Media Evolution & Regional Upward Spirals Happy New Year 2012! Here are a few thoughts on social media evolution from a service science perspective. I try to relate social media evolution to regional upward spirals of technology, skills, jobs, and quality-of-life. Daily Social Media Time Seems more and more of us are using social …

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