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PAPERBACK list:$22.50 Web:$20.25 add to cart PDF BOOK your price: $17.50 add to cart Rights & Permissions Free Resources Display this book on your site! Related Titles New Directions in Manufacturing: Report of a Workshop Innovation Policies for the 21st Century: Report of a Symposium Other Related Titles Globalization of Technology: International Perspectives (1988) National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Web Search Builder Use this book's key terms to search within this book, across our collection, or across the Web. Skim This Chapter Skim this chapter and use this chapter's key terms to search within this book. Reference Finder Paste in your own text to find books that relate to your topic. Page 187   E-mail  Facebook  Digg  Stumble  Twitter More The following HTML text is provided to enhance online readability. Many aspects of typography translate only awkwardly to HTML. Please use the page image as the authoritative form to ensure accuracy. APPENDIX C The Sixth Convocation Program: Technology and the Global Economy Monday, March 30, 1987 Auditorium 4:00 pm Welcome and Opening Remarks H.Guyford Stever Council President   Presidents of Council Member Academies Sir David Zeidler President Australian Academy of Technological Sciences     Poul Vermehren President Danish Academy of Technical Sciences     Jaime Cervantes Vice President National Academy of Engineering of Mexico     Hans G.Forsberg President Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences     Sir Denis Rooke President The Fellowship of Engineering Page 187 Front Matter (R1-R8) Overview (1-11) Globalization of Industry and Implications for the Future (12-22) The Technology Revolution and the Restructuring of the Global Economy (23-31) Global Flows and Barriers (32-36) Driving Technologies (37-44) Information Technologies in Industry and Society (45-61) Technological Advances and Challenges in the Telecommunications Sector (62-67) Technological Advances in the Construction Sector (68-79) Fifteen Years of Major Structural Changes in Manufacturing (80-85) Globalization of Industry Through Production Sharing (86-105) Regional and National Consequences of Globalizing Industries of the Pacific Rim (106-140) Technology and the World Economy: The Case of the American Hemisphere (141-158) Strategies for U.S. Economic Growth (159-176) Improving the Quality of Life Through Technology (177-180) Appendixes (181-182) A. The Council of Academies of Engineering and Technological Sciences (183-184) B. Sixth Convocation Council Member Academies and Officers (185-186) C. The Sixth Convocation Program: Technology and the Global Economy (187-190) D. List of Participants (191-196) E. Contributors (197-202) Index (203-216)

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Globalization of Technology: International Perspectives APPENDIX C The Sixth Convocation Program: Technology and the Global Economy Monday, March 30, 1987 Auditorium 4:00 pm Welcome and Opening Remarks H.Guyford Stever Council President   Presidents of Council Member Academies Sir David Zeidler President Australian Academy of Technological Sciences     Poul Vermehren President Danish Academy of Technical Sciences     Jaime Cervantes Vice President National Academy of Engineering of Mexico     Hans G.Forsberg President Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences     Sir Denis Rooke President The Fellowship of Engineering

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Globalization of Technology: International Perspectives     Robert M.White President National Academy of Engineering of the United States of America   Introduction Stephen D.Bechtel, Jr. Chairman Bechtel Group, Inc. United States   Keynote     Globalization of Industry and Implications for the Future Simon Ramo, Co-Founder TRW Inc., United States Tuesday, March 31, 1987 Lecture Room 9:00 am Session 1: Cutting Edge Technologies and Their Effects Chairman: Marco A.Murray-Lasso, National Academy of Engineering of Mexico 9:15 am Manufacturing Technologies Pehr Gyllenhammar Chairman AB Volvo, Sweden 10:00 am New Materials Pierre Aigrain Scientific Advisor to the President of the Thomson Group, France 11:00 am Information Technologies Lars Ramqvist Executive Vice President Ericsson Group, Sweden 1:30 pm Session 2: Changes in Industry Sectors Resulting from Technology Advances Chairman: Sir Francis Tombs, Chairman Rolls-Royce, Ltd.; Director, Rothschilds, United Kingdom 1:45 pm Construction Alden Yates President Bechtel Group, Inc. United States 2:30 pm Software George E.Pake Group Vice President Corporate Research (retired) Xerox Corp., United States

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Globalization of Technology: International Perspectives 3:30 pm Telecommunications Hiroshi Inose Chairman Faculty of Engineering, University of Tokyo; Director General, National Center for Science Information Systems, Japan Wednesday, April 1, 1987 9:00 am Session 3: Technology and the Global Economy: The Effects of Each on the Other Panel Chairman: Alf Akerman, Vice Chairman, Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences; Former President, SE-Banken, Gothenburg Group, Sweden 9:15 am Panel: Umberto Colombo, Chairman, Italian National Commission for Nuclear and Alternate Energy Sources, Italy Gerald Dinneen, Vice President, Research and Development, Honeywell Inc., United States Hajime Karatsu, Professor, Institute of Research and Development, Tokai University, Japan Ralph Landau, Consulting Professor of Economics and of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, United States Enrique Martin del Campo, Executive Secretary for Education, Science and Culture, Organization of American States 10:45 am Discussion 1:00 pm Session 4: Regional and National Consequences of Globalizing Industry Chairman: Sir David Zeidler, President, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences, Australia 1:10 pm Latin America, Mexico, and the United States Emilio Carillo Gamboa Director General, Telefonos de México, Mexico 1:50 pm Western Europe Harry L.Beckers Group Research Coordinator Shell International; Chairman, Industry Research & Development Advisory Committee, EEC, the Netherlands

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Globalization of Technology: International Perspectives 2:45 pm Pacific Rim Jan E.Kolm Chairman National Energy Research Development and Demonstration Council (NRDDC), Former Director Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) Australia Limited, Australia 4:00 pm Session 5: Overall Assessment Panel Chairman: Morris Tanenbaum, Vice Chairman of the Board, AT&T, United States 4:15 pm Panel: Wolf Häfele, Director General, Nuclear Research Center, Jülich, Federal Republic of Germany Sir Robin Nicholson, Executive Director, Pilkington Brothers plc, United Kingdom Robert Malpas, Managing Director, British Petroleum Company, United Kingdom

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