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Public Service Training in OECD Countries

1997

The public service in central and eastern Europe has to adapt to an enormous number of changes in a very short time. The staff is faced with a constantly changing regulatory framework which needs implementation and enforcement, as well as new demands from the growing private sector and the...

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Learning a Living : First Results of the Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey

2005

education and skills and adult learning and skills. Additional chapters compare the employability of younger and older …

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Training Civil Servants for Internationalisation

1996

This publication contains those papers presented at the seminar: the Issues Paper prepared by Professor Jacques Ziller, University of Sorbonne, and five country papers prepared by national experts, presenting the situation and experience in their countries. SIGMA has published these documents...

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Learning to Innovate: Learning regions

2002

In OECD countries, the number of cities and regions which put learning, education, research and innovation at the heart …. The growing interest in learning cities and regions reflects the fundamental shifts which are taking place. Cities are … becoming more knowledge-based and organised as never before around learning and human skills. Today, these factors are central …

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Nursery Cities: Urban Diversity, Process Innovation, and the Life-Cycle of Products

Duranton, Gilles; Puga, Diego - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

Why are some cities specialized and others diversified? What are the advantages and disadvantages of urban specialization and diversity? To what extent does the structure of cities, and the activities of firms and people in them, change over time? How does the sectoral composition of cities...

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The Financing of Innovation: Learning and Stopping

Bergemann, Dirk; Hege, Ulrich - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

This Paper considers the financing of a research project under uncertainty about the time of completion and the probability of eventual success. The uncertainty about future success diminishes gradually with the arrival of additional funding. The entrepreneur controls the funds and can divert...

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Creativity, cities and innovation

Lee, Neil; Rodriguez-Pose, Andres - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

The creative industries have long been seen as an innovative sector. More recent research posits that creative occupations are also a fundamental, but overlooked, driver of innovation. Theory also suggests cities are important for both creative industries and occupations, with urban environments...

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