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Made in Africa : Learning to Compete in Industry
Why is there so little industry in Africa? Over the past forty years, industry and business interests have moved increasingly from the developed to the developing world, yet Africa's share of global manufacturing has fallen from about 3 percent in 1970 to less than 2 percent in 2014. Industry is important to low-income countries. It is good for economic growth, job creation, and poverty reducti…
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Networks and Institutions in Europe's Emerging Markets
Do ties between political parties and businesses harm or benefit the development of market institutions? The post-communist transition offers an unparalleled opportunity to explore when and how networks linking the polity and the economy support the development of functional institutions. A quantitative and qualitative analysis covering eleven post-socialist countries combined with detailed cas…
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- 9781107031340
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Wealth Creation without Pollution : Designing for Industry, Ecobusiness Parks…
The development of eco-industrial parks and associated ‘ecological industry’ concepts offer progressive integrated approaches to resolve pollution problems from effluents and wastes of all kinds. Most industry however is now located in business parks and industrial estates, with relatively few industries having direct discharges of process effluents to the water environment. But that does n…
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- 9781780408330
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Stardesigner oder Gestalter des Alltäglichen Designrezeption in der Aufmer…
Wie »entstehen« Stars und Designklassiker im Feld des Designs? Markus Köck befasst sich erstmals mit der Prominenz im Feld des Designs für den deutschsprachigen Raum und bietet einen Einblick in 13 Publikationen über einen Zeitraum von nahezu sechs Jahrzehnten sowie in seine Arbeit mit raren Quelltexten aus Finnland, Japan und den USA.
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- 9783732859603
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The Petroleum Manga a Project
The Petroleum Manga, first conceived of and rendered as 10-foot banners printed on Tyvek for gallery installation is now reproduced in book form. Originally, manga was used in Japanese to refer to whimsical drawings or picture books.
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- 9780615965963
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A evolução histórica da ergonomia no mundo e seus pioneiros
Os conceitos e aplicações da ergonomia estão em constante discussão no âmbito acadêmico, caracterizando um corpus de conhecimento de grande expressividade para a própria ciência ergonômica e demais áreas tecnológicas correlatas, a saber: engenharias, design, arquitetura, e outras.
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- 9788579831201
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Design, empresa, sociedade
O objetivo desta pesquisa foi verificar até que ponto a formação acadêmica ministrada nos cursos de design responde aos anseios da sociedade e do setor produtivo e o de coletar subsídios para a discussão da situação do ensino de design no Brasil e elaboração de estratégias que permitam sua melhoria de maneira a ter profissionais adequados ao desenvolvimento de produtos que, embora co…
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- 9788579830938
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Der Offenbacher Ansatz Zur Theorie der Produktsprache
Die Theorie der Produktsprache stellte einen Paradigmenwechsel in der Designtheorie dar. An der Hochschule für Gestaltung (HfG) Offenbach in den 1970er und 1980er Jahren entwickelt, erweiterte sie das funktionalistische Verständnis von Produkten hinsichtlich ihrer Zeichenhaftigkeit und Bedeutungsdimension.
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- 9783839455692
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Critical by Design? Genealogies, Practices, Positions
In its constructive and speculative nature, design has the critical potential to reshape prevalent socio-material realities. At the same time, design is inevitably normative, if not often violent, as it stabilises the past, normalises the present, and precludes just and sustainable futures.
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- 9783839461044
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Which Winegrape Varieties are Grown Where? A Global Empirical Picture
In an increasingly interconnected world wine market, evolving consumer demands, technologies, and climate have all contributed to large shifts in global patterns of production and consumption of wine.
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- 9781922064684
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