The purpose of this chapter is to analyse approaches to the sharing economy from the perspective of public policy science. In the first part of the text, attention is paid to perceiving the development of the emerging sharing economy not only as phenomenon with positive economic effects but also...

The main question that guides this paper is how governments are focusing (and must focus) on competence building (education and training) when designing and implementing innovation policies. With this approach, the paper aims at filling the gap between the existing literature on competences on...

This paper addresses from a conceptual angle the impact assessment of public policies. The first part presents the fundamentals and mechanism for impact assessment of public policies, and the second part highlights the most significant contributions to this field at national and international...

The first part of the article presents several approaches of the public policies process in the international and national literature. The second part focuses on the specifics of public policies process in three countries: two of them are European Union members - Spain, and Portugal - and the...