Therefore, the technology spillover is weak in these countries, making it difficult to promote technological innovation.
"The only safe haven is technology; everything else is weak," says retail economist Richard Hastings of the Federation of Credit and Financial Professionals.
In a country whose homegrown technology is usually weak, a domestic firm has been beating international giants in this segment of China's software market.
Gartner, a market research firm, recently said that if the economy is weak, technology spending in 2009 in North America will increase only half a percent, down from the 5.3percentt it had forecast previously.
However, as indicated by Rubas ([2004]), universality of education in influencing technology adoption, though positive, is weak.
In addition, the University of Tampere, the institutional home of regenerative medicine, is the most social science-oriented university in Finland, and hence, its experience in technology transfer and commercialisation is weak and related competences have been almost non-existent.
ACESA is weak technology policy at best, given that its clean energy investments represent only a small fraction of expert consensus, and not exactly the kind of example we want to set for the world.
Two universities – Makerere and Mbarara – stand out in terms of health research, though as yet technology development and commercialization is weak.
Microsoft reported a remarkably strong quarterly performance yesterday with both profits and revenue up sharply at a time when the economy is weak and technology spending is depressed.
