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The Industry and Policy Context for Digital Games for Empowerment and Inclusion: Market Analysis, Future Prospects and Key Challenges in Videogames, Serious Games and Gamification.

Stewart, James; Misuraca, Gianluca - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2012

of sectors. These actors are trying to develop knowledge, products, services and a market for the use of digital games … them to support innovation and uptake of effective digital game-based approaches to empowerment and social inclusion. …

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The Potential of Digital Games for Empowerment and Social Inclusion of Groups at Risk of Social and Economic Exclusion: Evidence and Opportunity for Policy

Stewart, James; Bleumers, Lizzy; Centeno - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2013

service improvement, and employment and growth, but significant activity is still required in research, innovation, and …

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Earning Profiles for Italian Male Workers: Is There Evidence of a Premium for Education?

Biagi, Federico - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2012

Are younger generations better off than older ones? Can younger cohorts starting with lower real wages catch up with previous generations? Are young or old generations becoming more unequal? In this study we concentrate on the study of inter-generational and intra-generational patterns of...

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Survey on eInclusion Actors in EU27

Rissola, Gabriel; Garrido, Maria - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2013

This report presents the results of an online survey that collect relevant data from almost 3,000 organisations working on eInclusion in 27 European countries, which is the first attempt in Europe to collect primary data from those actors. This research constitutes a building block of a larger...

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The Impact of Highly-skilled ICT Labour on Firm Performance: Empirical Evidence from Six European Countries

Hagsten, Eva; Sabadash, Anna - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2014

While unemployment in the EU is above 10%, the job vacancy rate also remains high around 1.5%. This suggests considerable unmet demand for skills, which is in the focus of the EU employment promotion policies. This paper studies the special role that schooled ICT experts in firms - an intangible...

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Absorptive capacity, innovation cooperation and human-capital. Evidence from 3 European countries

Franco, Chiara; Marzucchi, Alberto; Montresor, Sandro - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2012

. Innovation cooperation is recognised as one of its antecedents, along with R&D, but with different possible outcomes, depending … on innovation. The empirical application, carried out on about 10,500 firms located in 3 EU countries (i.e. Germany … firm’s AC providing it occurs within the national boundaries. The transformation of AC into actual innovation is favoured …

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The Potential of Time Banks to support Social Inclusion and Employability: An investigation of the use of reciprocal volunteering and complementary currencies for social impact

Boyle, David - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2014

Time banks are systems which measure and reward the effort people make in their neighbourhoods, supporting other people – often in very informal ways – and which allows people also to draw down informal support when they need it. In different ways, they use time as a kind of ‘money’ to...

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Internet-mediated Volunteering in the EU: Its history, prevalence, and approaches and how it relates to employability and social inclusion

Cravens, Jayne - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2014

This is a review of Internet-mediated volunteering in European Union (EU) countries. It assesses the current status of such in EU countries and identifies key actors and stakeholders, drivers and barriers, uptake and usage, and potential challenges and risks for users, donors, policy makers and...

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Absorptive capacity, innovation cooperation and human-capital. Evidence from 3 European countries

Franco, Chiara; Marzucchi, Alberto; Montresor, Sandro - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2012

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Are ICT Displacing Workers? Evidence from Seven European Countries

Biagi, Federico; Pantea, Smaranda; Sabadash, Anna - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2014

This paper examines whether ICT substitute labour and reduce the demand for labour. We used firm-level comparable data separately for firms in manufacturing, services and ICT-producing sectors from seven European countries. We adopted a common methodology and applied it to a unique dataset...

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