This ‘web 2.0’ offers various ways to use these opportunities to improve and enhance the data and information management of your own organisation. Most of these offerings are completely free of charge. Used alone or in combinations, the new tools may revolutionize the way development...

This conference will focus on policy-oriented theoretical and empirical research which is meant to contribute to this debate, based on a careful analysis of existing constraints and relevant goals. Papers dealing with one or more of the following issues are particularly welcome. - Welfare state...

In the recent past, developments in asset and housing markets have attracted a lot of attention. Economic policy, including monetary policy and financial supervision, has been confronted with several challenges resulting from this turmoil. The conference aims to shed more light on the reasons...

This year’s topic is “New Challenges to Infrastructure Theory and Policy – Markets and Planning, Development and Sustainability”. The sectoral foci are transport, energy, telecommunication & internet, water, waste, and the health sector.

Policy studies increasingly focus on the role of ideas. It is not altogether a new insight that ideas matter in policy making, but it is a new phenomenon that it has become a dominant approach. This Ph.D. course offers a vide variety of theories and methods that theorize on how and under what...

Unter der Schirmherrschaft des Bundesministers für Wirtschaft und Technologie Michael Glos feiert das Praxisforum für das öffentliche Auftragswesen in Deutschland in diesem Jahr sein zehnjähriges Jubiläum. Am 25. und 26. September 2008 kommen unter dem Stichwort "Auftraggeber treffen...

Thema: Interoperabilität: Innovationsschutz versus Wettbewerb Themenschwerpunkt 1: Standards, Schnittstellen und Wettbewerb Themenschwerpunkt 2: Zwangslizensierung: Königsweg für Innovationsanreize und Wissensdiffusion? Themenschwerpunkt 3: Die EU-Kommissionsentscheidung im Microsoft-Fall

Die 29. Olympischen Sommerspiele, die am 8. August 2008 in Peking eröffnet werden, ziehen die Aufmerksamkeit der Weltöffentlichkeit auf China. Internationale Medien beleuchten nicht nur die sportlichen Highlights, sondern werfen ihr Licht auch auf die Erfolge und Probleme des nunmehr...

In the last few decades, house prices have undergone major medium-run fluctuations in many industrialized economies. Boom-bust cycles in house prices, coupled with a substantial increase in household indebtedness, have drawn the attention of policymakers and academics towards the developments in...

The core of the Conference discusses various dimensions of Demographic Change and Sustainable Development in Europe from different perspectives, country-specific experiences and theoretical as well as empirical approaches. This hopes to contribute in pushing the frontier of knowledge and to...