Foreword -- Executive summary -- Introduction -- Scope and drivers for industrial biotechnology -- Emerging synthetic enabling technologies -- Trends in industry and products -- Current high-visibility industrial biotechnology products -- Business organisation and finance in industrial...

Producing electricity from renewable energy sources has undeniable appeal, both for environmental reasons and for reducing our dependence on fossil fuels. This book assesses the outlook for six leading renewable energy technologies: small hydro power, solar photovoltaic, concentrating solar...

In all of the OECD countries, employment is seen to be sharply segregated by gender, with women's employment heavily concentrated in the same occupations: secretaries, primary school teachers, nurses and home helpers. These jobs, whose image has in many cases remained stereotyped and...