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Although the conversion of science and technology into marketable products that cover societal needs is a matter of the private sector, the public sector has its role to play. This book aims at informing and stimulating the debate on policy issues relating to science, technology and innovation.

Focuses on the three areas of interest in institutions: policy implementation, market and supply chain organisation and management of rural resources and rural systems. The chapters cover insights on the significance of institutions on transaction costs, policy analysis, agri-environmental policies, social capital and bottom-up approaches.

Analyzing several aspects of the political economy of international economic policy,this book contains 12 essays that address the areas of the political economy of trade, aid and investment policy, and therefore will be of interest to academic researchers and students of international economics.

A selection of 20 papers from the 14th biennial conference of the International Telecommunications Society, covering a variety of topics related to the digital society and providing a balanced overview of current and emerging issues of high relevance to policymakers, researchers and private companies.

Include chapters such as: The Consumption Function, Government Debt and Taxes, and Dynamic Optimal Taxation. This book also features chapters dealing with difference equations, stochastic difference equations, and investment under uncertainty.

Examines the geopolitical and economic contexts of the region's export-oriented industrialization. This book focuses on the global and regional elements of the economic system and geo-politics. It also focuses on the domestic actors and institutions which played critical roles in the miracle economies of East Asia.

From the oil and gas industries of Norway to recent Australian experiences, the railway sector and the nuclear industry, the contributors to this collection assess risks and offer insights into the various regulatory frameworks that keep people safe in all parts of the world.

Technology does not invite an examination of its own consequences. Issues concerning ethics and professionalism, privacy, autonomy, free speech, and ethics have often been recognized but rarely receive analysis and illumination they deserve. This book is a study in the success of the computer in a variety of forms and applications.

This introductory volume includes worked examples from a variety of data sets about the most frequently used models and computer programs for MDS, as well as techniques for collecting data and assessing MDS results. It covers the design, execution, and analysis of multidimensional scaling experiments and includes detailed descriptions and examples of six major MDS computer programs: MINISSA, POLYCON, KYST, INDSCAL/SINDSCAL, ALSCAL and MULTISCALE. These six approaches are sufficiently fundamental that continuing developments in the field will build on the principles presented in this volume.

This book provides methods, guidelines and examples to guide researchers and students through a research project, and reviewing a considerable body of previous work. It contains a complete link analysis methodology for information science and social science research. Case studies include academic, business and commercial search engine applications.

Provides a comprehensive review of the reform programs throughout the world in the land passenger transport sector. This book contains papers written by those who influence policy and institutional reform in over 20 countries. It presents a comprehensive statement of the successes and failures in public transport reform.

Talks about how business changes at the micro level during the transition to a market economy. This book focuses on the Russian market, as it is one of the biggest countries making the transition. It presents a case study, which covers the period from 1986 to 1998, and analyses and explains how business networks in Russia have changed.

Despite the evident importance of Silicon Valley North for regional, national, and international technological development this phenomenon is far from being well understood. An exceptionally timely endeavor, this book is devoted to the multidimensional and multifaceted nature of SVN, its history, current state and future developments.

This tenth volume of papers emanating from the annual International High Technology Small Firms Conference represents a full decade of research and policy relevant papers on innovation and growth problems of New Technology-based Firms (NTBf).

Combining the experiences of safety science and knowledge management in service organisations, this book focuses on individual and group processes and on organisational strategy or societal and environmental issues. It addresses questions such as how can an organisation learn from its successes and failures, from its experiences and accidents

Provides an understanding about the impact of culture and communication on international business negotiations. This work explores the problems faced by Western managers while doing business abroad and offers guidelines for international business negotiations. It also focuses on an important aspect of international business: negotiations.

Presents the collective output of a European research network, coordinated by the Center for Instructional Psychology and Technology of the University of Leuven. This work focuses on unravelling and identifying basic component and dimensions of powerful learning environments.

Based on the Third International Conference on City Logistics (City Logistics III held in Madeira in 2003), this volume includes developments in the modelling, evaluation and planning of city logistics schemes. It also provides an overview of the visions for city logistics and public private partnerships for city logistics.

Countries create different type of incentives for foreign firms, such as; direct incentives/subsidies, tax relief, soft loans and preferred handling. This volume aims to analyze the impact of European Union on inward foreign direct investment in Europe and to discuss what type of effects are being created by this race for FDI.

These papers from INSTR 2001, cover aspects of transport network reliability, such as definitions and methodological developments for reliability indices, behavioural analysis under uncertainty, and evaluation methods for the disaster resistance of transport networks.

Devoted to the environmental impacts of transport. This work looks at the various aspects of the subject such as environmental concepts, both physical and economic. It also examines environmental concerns such as: global warming, air quality, noise, safety, amenity, and severance; political settings and policies; and more.

This overview of developments in transport survey methods from around the world emphasises survey quality and innovation. It contains selected papers from the International Conference on Transport Survey Quality and Innovation.

The internationalization of business has accelerated during the post-war period and particularly in the 1990s. At the same time, research on international business has grown considerably. The book provides critical perspectives on internationalization and on internationalization research.

This text tackles some of the issues facing practitioners and researchers in the field of management of technology. Special attention is given to the challenges facing nations and companies at the dawn of a new millennium where technology is expected to dominate every aspect of human endeavour.

Focusing primarily on the application of the theories of complexity to organisations, it slowly helped to disseminate ideas on complexity. The 14 international authors in this volume reflect this interest in 10 chapters that range from the very practical application of the theory to more philosophical reflections on its nature and applicability.

Until recently real people worked in real locations to conduct business, whether in large corporations, or smaller businesses. These papers consider the implications for managers directing staff who work outside the physical confines of a location using telecommunication technologies.

Business networks have been defined as networks of connected business relationships between firms, where a business relationship is a lasting relation between two firms doing business with one another. This volume aims to discuss learning in business network settings.

Examines how the higher education environment is being shaped by new information technologies, with a particular focus on technologies based in the Internet. This work illustrates a vision of how virtual universities and their elements are emerging, and of how they can be shaped to the needs of knowledge-based societies.

Discusses transport systems and the implementation of related public policy - a relevant topic with contemporary traffic congestion, environmental intrusion, transport safety, and budget issues. This is a useful resource for both experienced researchers and those new to the field.

This guide to global education policy looks at the role of the OECD in co-ordinating and changing education policy, making clear how processes of persuasion may work. Aspects such as ideological tensions, and the politics of educational factors are also considered.