Health Policy And High-tech Industrial Development: Learning From Innovation In The Health Industry
Автор: [автор не указан] Год: 2005 Издание: [не указанo] Страниц: [не указано] ISBN: 1843767570 Book DescriptionMany countries and regions are actively promoting high technology industries as a means of stimulating the economy. The authors point out that these efforts are not only encouraging economic development, but they also reduce an economy?s vulnerability to the negative consequences of world trade. By weaving together the fields of health economics, industrial organization and industrial development, this book describes the benefits of promoting a country?s health industry as a way of stimulating its high-technology industrial capacity. The authors illustrate that the development of a country?s health industry not only improves the country?s health status, but also promotes an industry with relatively stable, high wageemployment, creates the potential for exporting goods and services, and produces scientific spillovers that will favorably impact other high-technology industries. Health Policy and High-Tech Industrial Development will be of great...
