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Dedication -- Contents -- Notes on the Contributors -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Notes -- References -- Part I: Science, Technology, and Innovation Policies and Institutional Framework -- Chapter 2: Science, Technology, Innovation Laws, and Policies in Iran: Evolution or Revolution? -- 1 Introduction -- 2 A Review of Definitions and Concepts -- 2.1 Policy -- 2.2 Laws -- 3 The Process of Policy Making in Iran -- 3.1 The Islamic Consultative Assembly (ICA) -- 3.2 The Guardian Council (GC) -- 3.3 The Expediency Council (EC) -- 3.4 The Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution (SCCR) -- 3.5 The Cabinet of Ministers (CM) -- 4 A Short History of the Codification and Ratification of STI Laws and Policies in Iran -- 5 The Pathology of S&T Policy Making in Iran -- 6 Summary and Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: Fostering New Technology-Based Firms in Iran: Inspiration of World Models in Solving Domestic Challenges -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Law for Supporting the Knowledge-Based Companies and Commercialization of Inventions -- 3 The Participants in Support for NTBFs in Iran -- 3.1 The Governmental Organizations -- 3.2 The Universities and Academic Institutes -- 3.3 The Capital and Financial Market -- 3.4 Market and the Customers of Technology -- 3.5 Holdings and Private Companies -- 3.6 The Startups, Mentors, and Consultants -- 3.7 Intellectual Property Rights and Market -- 4 Conclusions -- Note -- Reference -- Chapter 4: National Framework for Knowledge Management Strategies: The Case of the National Comprehensive Scientific Roadmap (NCSR) in Iran -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Research Background -- 3 Theoretical Background -- 4 Research Methodology -- 5 Analysis and Discussion -- 5.1 NSCR Is an Example for Nationally Strategic Documents (Major Policy-Making)

PurposeThis paper aims to critically examine China's exchange rate policy debate and discuss Chinese financial and capital control reform of recent years. Furthermore, using the empirical results based on a regional general equilibrium model, alternative methods are suggested of addressing American concerns about China's role in contributing towards global financial stability and American trade deficits with China.Design/methodology/approachRegional general equilibrium input‐output model.FindingsSino‐American debate on exchange rate policy is a matter of difference of opinion in sequencing of policies China has adopted to reduce capital account control and make her exchange rate regime more flexible. Using the final demand elasticity of exports it is observed that Chinese expansionary fiscal stimuli do have powerful effects in inducing additional exports for the United States and other Chinese trading partners.Research limitations/implicationsThe model does not include rest‐of‐the‐world economies.Practical implications:The results imply viable alternatives to renminbi/dollar appreciation policy in dealing with US‐China persistent trade deficit.Originality/valueThe paper suggests a new, empirical‐based policy recommendation in dealing with the US trade deficit with China.

This book explains in detail corporate restructuring throughmergers and acquisitions (M&A). It critically examines allfunctions that must be performed in completing an M&Atransaction, as well as domestic and cross-border M&As, internationalfinance, and multinational financial management.Given the increasing importance of China as the secondlargest economy in the world and Chinese companies' growingmerger and acquisition activities globally, the authors devotethe last two chapters of the book to China's outward foreign directinvestment, cross-border M&A activities, and include casestudies regar

Over the last two decades Iran has gone through major industrial transformation, in spite of major obstacles in the path of the country's development. This comprehensive book examines the Iranian government's mobilization of resources to develop science and technology, presenting an overview of the structure, dynamics, and outcomes of the government's science and technology policies. It evaluates sectors at the systems level and emphasizes the prominence of government, rather than of the market, in the innovation system of the Iranian economy. Written by authors who are in positions of leaders

Modelling and Forecasting Financial Data brings together a coherent and accessible set of chapters on recent research results on this topic. To make such methods readily useful in practice, the contributors to this volume have agreed to make available to readers upon request all computer programs used to implement the methods discussed in their respective chapters. Modelling and Forecasting Financial Data is a valuable resource for researchers and graduate students studying complex systems in finance, biology, and physics, as well as those applying such methods to nonlinear time series analysis and signal processing