The emergence, spreading and dissemination of scientific knowledge currently surpasses the capacity of assimilation and processing by one individual, requiring multidisciplinary and multigenerational team research. The need of interaction and networking uptakes more and more in the management of...

Highlighted as a strategic instrument towards the targets of the Lisbon 2010 and Europe 2020 strategies, RDI specialisation has been a very frequent issue in the recent literature of the field. Many of the official European documents have also emphasized that a more functional, integrated and...

The “policy-mix” is a relative new concept in research-development and innovation literature and policy. It has been introduced some years ago, as a new model of resources mobilization through the coordination of different policies, having in view the accomplishment of the objective of...

The aim of the international conference ESPERA 2016 was to present and evaluate the economic scientific research portfolio, to argue and substantiate Romanian development strategies – including European and global best practices. The plenary session and the parallel sections were centered on...

The emergence, spreading and dissemination of scientific knowledge currently surpasses the capacity of assimilation and processing by one individual, requiring multidisciplinary and multigenerational team research. The need of interaction and networking uptakes more and more in the management of...

Romania is currently facing many difficulties in order to cope with financial andeconomic crisis as well as to reach the Europe 2020 targets. This paper presents the new challengesfaced by Romanian Research, Development and Innovation (RDI) system during the economicrecession, its weaknesses and...

Under the realm of the overarching objective of sustainable development, the configuration, structure, relationships and dynamics of the traditional systems of social protection have undergone a process of transformation towards a more tenable architecture, referred to, hereafter, as the system...

The globalisation of economy and communications, quick technological progress and its social implications led to the creation of the European Research Area, an important objective for the convergence of national RD&I systems. The monitoring of convergence process is achieved, since 2000, through...