Farhad Abbasi

Iranian Research Organization for Science and Technology, Head of Technology Foresight and Evaluation Division, No. 27 Forsat St, Engelab Ave., Teheran, Iran

Keywords innovation systems, technology management, human capital, benchmarking in innovation, commercialization, R&D productivity measurement, technology foresight

Farhad Abbasi is a research fellow and Head of Technology Foresight and Evaluation Division, the Iranian Research Organizations for Science and Technology.

Indigenous technological capability and its impact on technological development process: the case of Iranian industrial firms, International Journal of Technology Management and Sustainable Development, 8.2, 145 — 168.

Use of virtual index for measuring efficiency of innovation systems: A cross-country study, International Journal of Technology Management and Sustainable Development, 9.3, 195 — 212.

Samer Abboud

Arcadia University, Department of History and International Studies, 450 South Easton Road, Glenside, PA, 19038, United States of America

Keywords political economy, migration, mobility, citizenship, Syria, Arab studies, Islamic studies

Dr Abboud began teaching at Arcadia in Autumn 2010. He received his Ph.D. in Arab and Islamic Studies from the University of Exeter's Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies in 2007 where he conducted research on the political economy of marketization in Syria. In his research and teaching, he explores questions of political economy, migration/mobility, and citizenship, particularly within the context of the non-Western world. Dr Abboud has published in Arab Studies Quarterly, New Political Science, and Review of Middle East Studies, as well as in several edited collections. He has also written on Syria's political economy, publishing two monographs on Syrian Trade Policy and Marketization in Syria. Dr Abboud also serves as a Fellow at the Center for Syrian Studies in St. Andrew's, Scotland, and as Managing Editor of the International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies.

Failures (and successes?) of neoliberal economic policy in Iraq, International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies, 2.3, 425 — 442.

Azley Abd Razak

University of the West of England, Operations and Information Management School, Bristol Business School, Frenchay Campus, Coldharbour Lane, Bristol, BS16 1QY, United Kingdom

Keywords Malaysia, triple helix, innovation networks, entrepreneurship

Azley Abd Razak is Research and Teaching Associate in the Bristol Business School at the University of the West of England. His research interests include the Triple Helix model of innovation in developing countries.

The role of universities in the evolution of the Triple Helix culture of innovation network: The case of Malaysia, International Journal of Technology Management and Sustainable Development, 6.3, 211 — 226.

Laroussi Ben Abdallah

University of Gafsa, Institut Supérieur d'Administration des Entreprises, Campus Universitaire Sidi Ahmed Zarroug 2112, Gafsa, Tunisia

Keywords spin off, firm source, firm beneficiary

Laroussi Ben Abdallah is a lecturer of management and Head of Department of Sciences Management and Finance at the Institute of Business Administration, at the University of Gafsa. His research is essentially focused on organizational structure and small and medium enterprises (SMEs).

A la recherche d'un essaimage entreprise publique minière Tunisienne, International Journal of Technology Management and Sustainable Development, 7.2, 169 — 185.

Sofia Aboim

University of Lisbon, Institute of Social Sciences, Av. Professor Aníbal Bettencourt, 9, Lisbon, 1600 — 189, Portugal

Keywords modernization, gender relations, gender gap, family life, cross-national comparison

Sofia Aboim is a Research Fellow at the University of Lisbon's Institute of Social Sciences.

Family and gender values in contemporary Europe: The attitudinal gender gap from a cross-national perspective, Portuguese Journal of Social Science, 9.1, 33 — 58.

Nathan Abrams

Bangor University, School of Creative Studies and Media, Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 2DG, United Kingdom

Keywords Jewishness, Jews, film, United Kingdom

Dr Nathan Abrams is a Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Bangor University. His research explores the representation of Jews, Jewishness and Judaism in contemporary cinema since 1990, with a particular emphasis on the United States. His most recent books are Studying Film (2nd ed., London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2010) and The New Jew in Film: Exploring Jewishness and Judaism in Contemporary Cinema (London: IB Tauris, forthcoming in 2011).

Hidden: Jewish Film in the United Kingdom, past and present, Journal of European Popular Culture, 1.1, 53 — 68.

Pedro Abrantes

ISCTE., Av. das Forças Armadas, Lisbon, 1649 — 026, Portugal

Keywords youth, adulthood, transitions, pathways

Pedro Abrantes is a Sociological Researcher with the Sociological Studies Research Centre, ISCTE.

Moving into adulthood in a southern European country: transitions in Portugal, Portuguese Journal of Social Science, 3.3, 191 —.

On full-time primary schools: Opportunities, challenges and good practices, Portuguese Journal of Social Science, 10.1, 59 — 71.

Dinesh Abrol

National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies, Pusa Gate, K.S. Krishnan Marg, New Delhi, 110 012, India

Keywords S&T, rural poor, rural enterprise development, cooperation, partnership

Dr Dinesh Abrol is a research scientist at the National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies (NISTADS).

Embedding technology in community-based production systems through People's Technology Initiatives: Lessons from the Indian experience, International Journal of Technology Management and Sustainable Development, 4.1, 3 — 20.

Seifudein Adem

Binghamton University, Institute of Global and Cultural Studies, PO Box 6000, LNG-100 Binghamton, NY, 13902, United States of America

Keywords Japan, Iraq, foreign policy, Iraq War

Seifudein Adem, Associate Research Professor of Political Science, State University of New York at Binghamton. He is also author of Hegemony and Discourse: New perspectives in International Relations.

Japan and the Iraq War: cultural and theoretical perspectives, International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies, 2.2, 209 — 224.

John Olatunji Adeoti

NISER-Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research, Economic and Tech Development Dept., Oyo Road, P.M.B, 5 UIPO, Ibadan, Nigeria

Keywords environmental policy, industry, technology, Nigeria

John Olatunji Adeoti has researched extensively on the role of science and technology in economic development, industrial development and planning issues in Sub-Saharan Africa; and is the author of the book, Technology and the Environment in Sub-Saharan Africa: Emerging Trends in the Nigerian Manufacturing Industry published in 2002 by Ashgate...