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“The large number of Indians educated at US

engineering and other schools (many of

whom had gained entrepreneurial experiencein Silicon Valley or managerial experience at

American IT firms) proided an important

human capital base for deeloping IT

company management capacity! Sources for

technological talent also increasingly came

from the Indian education system through the

deelopment of IIT"s and IIS#$ regional

colleges and number of priate colleges%

According to &ournal of Asia 'usiness Studies

(Vol ! o! *$ *+,*)$ “ The large number of 

Indians educated at US engineering and other schools (many of whom had gained

entrepreneurial experience in Silicon Valley

or managerial experience at American IT

firms) proided an important human capital

 base for deeloping IT company management

capacity! Sources for technological talent also

increasingly came from the Indian education

system through the deelopment of IIT"s and

IIS#$ regional colleges and number of priate

colleges% (pp! ,-.)!

“/e find that in those states where the

technological deelopment in manufacturing

during these years has been the greatest$ the

 pay of their factory employees has also been

increased the most! The coefficient of

correlation is 0+!! It does not seem

reasonable to thin1 that this differential

increase in pay to employees is due to any

differential increase in union actiities or to

any differential improement in management!

/e therefore thin1 that oerall whole state$ in

general$ the increase in technological

deelopment in manufacturing leads to an

increase in pay to factory employees%

According to the American &ournal of

Sociology (Vol .$ no!*$ September ,2.2)$

“/e find that in those states where the

technological deelopment in manufacturing

during these years has been the greatest$ the

 pay of their factory employees has also been

increased the most! The coefficient of

correlation is 0+!! It does not seem

reasonable to thin1 that this differential

increase in pay to employees is due to any

differential increase in union actiities or to

any differential improement in management!

/e therefore thin1 that oerall whole state$ in

general$ the increase in technological

deelopment in manufacturing leads to an

increase in pay to factory

employees%(pp!,*2)!

“A production function is a physical relation between 3uantities of inputs and a 3uantity of

output$ without prices$ it is li1e a technical

relation$ li1e an industrial engineering plan! A

 production function has a mathematical form

45 f(6$ 7$ 8) where 6 stands for capital

goods (buildings and e3uipment)$ 7 for

9red 8osley in :i1etty and 8arginal:roductiity Theory (*+,-) states that$ the

input and output 3uantity hae some

interconnection among themseles whereby

they are also 1nown as production function

which consists of a series of terms that

represents all the input 3uantity!

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labour$ and 8 for material inputs (and

intermediate inputs in general)%

“Technology deelopment is much more

eolutionary and much less eolutionary or  brea1through oriented than most people

imagine! It is important to reali;e that a series

of eolutionary steps in technology$ together 

amounting to a large improement$ is alph ?! @omory in

Technological ?olutions and 'rea1through(ol **+)$ “Technology deelopment is much

more eolutionary and much less

eolutionary or brea1through oriented than

most people imagine! It is important to reali;e

that a series of eolutionary steps in

technology$ together amounting to a large

improement$ is ene 6emp in Technology

and The Transition to ?nironmental

Sustainability (ol * num ,+)$ “Alternatie

energy technologies li1e renewables and

other nonhydrocarbon energy technologies

are aailable but hae so far not made an

impact (except for hydropower and nuclear

 power)! The moe towards renewables and

other nonhydrocarbon energy technologies

(li1e fuel cells) is hindered by smallscale

 production (which preents cost reductions

from scale economies)$ the fact that they

hae not benefited much from learning

effects (despite the progress made in the

 past) and the lac1 of institutional support

for these technologies%(pp! ,+-*)!

“And /e sent down in the 4uran such things

that hae healing and mercy for the belieers%

(Ana

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“ew technologies$ global competition$ and

increased customer demands are forcing

organi;ations to reconsider how they can ta1e

adantage of Information Technology (IT)

capabilities to better manage their supply

chains! Traditionally$ Supply #hain8anagement (S#8) is mainly considered a

 process for obtaining and moing goods and

serices! 8odern aspects focus on strategic

S#8$ where supply chains are used as a

means to create competitie adantages and

enhance firm performance (6etchen et al!$

*++C)! IT practices and techni3ues are used to

enable information sharing across supply

chain partners$ by integrating both internal

and external business functions! In addition$the alignment of IT goals and ob