Daily Archives August 3, 2007

News Roundup: Google Earth Resume/CV, Google Maps Interface to BMW cars. [UPDATED 1530: the BMW video shown below is official - see details below] Google Earth Resume/CV - A young man by the name of Ozgur Alaz in Istanbul has used Google Earth to generate a major marketing coup to further his career. He posted a GE file showing some…

A Grand Bargain Over Teacher Merit Pay?. Andrew Leigh. I’ve started writing an occasional column in the Australian Financial Review, which will hopefully turn out to be monthly (on non-Quiggin Thursdays). My first is on teacher merit pay. Breaking the Pay Deadlock

Innovation and the knowledge economy in Australia. The conventional view of the knowledge economy based on high technology industries and frontier technologies, like biotech and nanotechnology, presents an incomplete picture. Don't overlook the significance of low and medium technology industries in services and manufacturing (eg. food processing, transport, financial services, timber and metal products) that are innovative, knowledge-intensive and growing…

Our new book on GLOBAL HEALTH is out!! Is it possible to write a book on the health of all 6.5 billion persons living on the globe? Well we did it and now it is on sale from Monday 27/11 2006. We are six authors, but it was Ann Lindstrand who got it together and Birgitta Rubensson that brought it…

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