چکیده:
The concept of competitiveness has attracted abundant attentions of both scholarsand governors during the past decade. During this period, the world economic forum has published its annual reports which encompass Global Competitiveness Index(GCI) in order to measure national competitiveness in different countries. This paper aims at investigating the interaction between the two sets of "Technological readiness" and "Macroeconomic environment" as the two basic pillars of national competitiveness in order to provide information for improving nationalcompetitiveness in countries which are transiting from stage I to stage II of deveopment. In our study, we used descriptive-correlation methodology. The statistical population was 139 countries whose GCI data were included in GCI 2010 report. Also, we employed Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA) to investigateinteraction between two sets of "Technological readiness" and "Macroeconomic environment". Our findings show that there is a significant and positive relationship between the set of "Technological readiness" and that of "Macroeconomic environment".
خلاصه ماشینی:
"Relationship between macroeconomic environment and technological readiness: A secondary analysis of countries global competitiveness Ahmad Jafarnejad*, Rohollah Ghasemi**, Behzad Abdollahi***, Alireza Esmailzadeh**** Abstract The concept of competitiveness has attracted abundant attentions of both scholarsand governors during the past decade.
This paper aims at investigating the interaction between the two sets of "Technological readiness" and "Macroeconomic environment" as the two basic pillars of national competitiveness in order to provide information for improving nationalcompetitiveness in countries which are transiting from stage I to stage II of deveopment.
Global Competitiveness; Technological readiness; Macroeconomic environment; Canonical Correlation Analysis * Professor, Faculty of Management, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran..
As mentioned in the Introduction, this research seeks to investigate interactions between pillars of "Technological readiness" and "Macroeconomic environment" in GCI in order to provide information for countries which are transiting from stage I of development to stage II to improve their national competitiveness in an efficient way.
56% Variables: 1 Government budget balance Availability of latest technologies 2 National savings rate Firm-level technology absorption 3 Inflation FDI and technology transfer 4 Interest rate spread Internet users 5 Government debt Broadband Internet Subscriptions 6 Country credit rating Internet bandwidth Table 4 is showing enveloped data variation by CCA.
6. Conclusions and future works This research intended to investigate the relationship between "Technological readiness" and "Macroeconomic environment" by using CCA for GCI 2010 data.
In "Technological readiness" sub-indexes, "Broadband Internet Subscriptions", "Availability of latest technologies", and "Internet bandwidth" and in "Macroeconomic environment" sub-indexes, "Country credit rating", "Interest rate spread" and "Inflation" have the most impact on creating a meaningful relationship."