Corporate Japan is buying exposure to foreign technology and management techniques in the hope that these will help change its own to international best practice.

ECONOMIST: Japanese companies

Dr. Billal has 28 years of scientific and administrative experience in research and management to his credit and has the honour of implementing more then 1200 scientific programmes and projects around the world, covering a broad category of areas like science policy and innovation system, science education, technology capability building, environment protection, climate change, and water management programmes among others.

UNESCO: Education

As a result of technology-driven IT management, the Corporate Executive Board predicts a change in IT roles in 2013, where more work will be done within the company, but outside of IT.

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During the first half of this year, Korean businesses, including the chaebol, have recorded the most profitable period in all of their history-not because of radical change towards rationalization and streamlining of their business management or any breakthrough in their technology development, but because of successful government policies.

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