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Services and the Knowledge-Based Economy
First published in 2000. Over the past two decades, the service sector have increased dramatically and now occupy the largest share of the economy of advanced industrial societies. Certain business services are regularly cited as evidence for the emergence of a "knowledge economy". In this pioneering book, leading researchers in the fields of service industries and innovation studies investigate the reasons for the growth of the service sectors and this emergent knowledge economy. Drawing on material as diverse as macroeconomic statistics and firm-level case studies, the contributors demonstrate that services are often important innovators in their own right, as well as contributing to innov...
Services and the Knowledge-based Economy
Contains 14 essays which discuss the role of services in innovation processes and in particular the role of knowledge-intensive business services.
R & D Programme Evaluation - Theory and Practice
This title was first published in 2003. This volume identifies and compares the evaluation systems of a representative selection of national and international large scale R&D programmes based upon a framework for meta-evaluation. The 6 R+D programmes considered are the Alvey Programme (UK); the Advanced Technology Programme (US); the EUREKA initiative (European); the Human Frontier Science Programme (International); the Brite-Euram Programme (EU) and the HAN Programme (Korea). The aim is to develop the technique of meta-evaluation for R&D programmes and to assess, through detailed and systematic comparison, the different evaluation approaches. The book also provides a detailed comparison of the different R&D programme designs and operations.
R & D Programme Evaluation
The growth of research evaluation has taken place against a background of declining growth rates in the resources available for science.
The Mates, Dates Guide to Life, Love, and Looking Luscious
Time for a lifestyle makeover? The Mates, Dates girls will show you how! Four super-tight friends dish their secrets for dealing with life's little dilemmas... Like boys, for start: what they want, where to find them, how to be a great kisser -- you know, all the really important stuff. Once you snag that dreamy guy, the girls deliver the fashion 411 to keep you looking irresistible! But being a glamour goddess can sometimes get stressful, so there are plenty of tips on how torelax and hang out with your closest friends. From creating the perfect bedroom, to spicing up your own personal style -- here's an exclusive ticket to a more fabulous you! Just between mates...
Governing Smart Specialisation
In recent years, smart specialisation has been a key building block of regional economic and development policy across the European Union. Providing targeted support for innovation and research, it has helped identify those areas of greatest strategic potential, developing mechanisms to involve the fullest range of stakeholders, before setting strategic priorities and using the policy to maximize the knowledge-based potential of a region or territory. Governing Smart Specialisation contributes to the emerging debate about the role of the ‘entrepreneurial discovery process’ (EDP), which is at the heart of smart specialisation strategies for regional economic transformation. Particular foc...
The Making of Eurosceptic Britain
Populist Euroscepticism has become fundamental to constituting Britain and Britishness in a post-imperial context, despite membership of the European Union.This book is organized chronologically, providing overviews of key periods in the British-European Union relationship.
European Collaboration in Research and Development
The contributions collected in this volume focus explicitly on cooperative R & D in Europe. The first part of the book offers empirical evidence on the extent, scope and direction of this collaboration and explores the motives and problems of the participating firms, as well as the perceived benefits they have enjoyed. The second part deals with the difficult policy issues that diverse national R & D regimes create for successful cooperative research and international convergence. The extensive survey results of European firms allow the authors to compare collaborative research policies in various.
