This volume aims to document the most important worldwide accomplishments in converging knowledge and technology, including converging platforms, methods of convergence, societal implications, and governance in the last ten years.

First Published in 1983. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Across these environments, the book focuses on real-world practices and includes contributors from a broad range of fields including trainers, consultants, professors, university presidents, distance-learning center directors, learning ...

Rising to the Challenge: U.S. Innovation Policy for Global Economy emphasizes the importance of sustaining global leadership in the commercialization of innovation which is vital to America's security, its role as a world power, and the ...

. . The authors should be applauded for taking the time to write and share their knowledge with us. This book will be welcomed by practising researchers. . .

This book provides a comprehensive overview of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Indian corporations following the 2013 legal mandate on corporate spending of profits for CSR.

The handbook includes: a design framework for teachers wishing to implement blended synchronous lessons; a capabilities framework to support selection of suitable technologies; a literature review; case study reports; summary of study ...

This book discusses a new class of photonic devices, known as surface plasmon nanophotonic structures.

The book tackles questions related to the future of architecture and urbanism, lessons learned from global case studies and challenges related to interdisciplinary research, and critically examines what the future of buildings and cities ...

Introduction by Justin Yifu Lin and Boris Pleskovic. Opening addresses by Trevor Manuel, Justin Yifu Lin, and Thabo Mbeki. Keynote addresses by Michael Spence, Bassma Kodmani, and Sunil Kant Munjal.