The findings suggest that global mobility of people and ideas allowed China to reach the scientific and technological frontier much faster and more efficiently.
With the rise of social mobility, education and ideas of solidarity, the idea of reinforcing caste with such elaborate attention to language strikes some Balinese as backwards.
They come amid a long-term trend of job mobility, with the idea of working for one employer for life seeming downright antiquated.
The program thus sets up a series of ideas about mobility and immobility, statuary and dance, fragility and creation.
It is argued that technology policy towards a particular industry must take the role of inventors' mobility in facilitating the flow of ideas across space and innovating organizations into account.
Ober says decentralization, high degree of cooperation, high levels of specialization, innovation, mobility of people, goods and ideas, and fair rules and competitive emulation helped the Greeks build hundreds of prosperous and democratic states all over the Mediterranean.
Such exchanges were common, thanks to the mobility of people as well as ideas.
To deny the power of social mobility as an idea suggests that there will always be a working class and that its members should continue to know their place.
This paper presents the idea of using the mobility of carriers and contacts between mobile devices for wireless messaging.
Second, mobility of goods, money, labour, people, and ideas across borders are key promoters of disruption.
By James Surowiecki Since at least the days of Horatio Alger, a cornerstone of American thinking has been the hope of social mobility — the idea that, as Lawrence Samuel put it in a history of the American dream, anyone can, "through dedication and with a can-do spirit, climb the ladder of success".
