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The Role of Knowledge Accumulation in Health and Longevity: The Puzzling Case of Suicide
Williams, Ruth F. G.; Doessel, D. P. - In: Prometheus 25 (2007) 3, pp. 283-303
Many Western countries have experienced the 'rectangularisation of the [demographic] survival curve', leading to a rise in life expectancy. This process is the result of falling death rates, which leads to increasing longevity. In this article, suicide is placed within the general perspective of...
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Prizes, Patents, and Technology Procurement: A Proposed Analytical Framework
Brennan, Timothy J.; Macauley, Molly; Whitefoot, Kate - 2011
Prizes are receiving increasing attention in policy and entrepreneurial communities as means to promote innovation, but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009644191
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Prizes, Patents, and Technology Procurement: A Proposed Analytical Framework
Brennan, Timothy J.; Macauley, Molly; Whitefoot, Kate - 2011
Policy and entrepreneurial communities are increasingly promoting innovation by using prizes but their distinguishing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010642998
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Reinventing Knowledge Systems: With an Application to Recent Systemic Changes in East and South Asia
Tunzelmann, Nick von - In: Prometheus 27 (2009) 4, pp. 357-370
production and innovation, their management and governance. The final section of the paper assesses the recent 'growth dynamics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008464344
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Some notes on 20 years of book reviews in Prometheus
Doessel, D. P. - In: Prometheus 21 (2003) 4, pp. 523-534
books reviewed, in terms of the five themes of Prometheus, i.e. Technological Change, Innovation, Information Economics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009188608
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Innovation: principles, processes and policy. a review of the contribution of Prometheus in its first 20 years
Hall, Peter - In: Prometheus 21 (2003) 4, pp. 497-508
This paper reviews the contribution that Prometheus has made over the past 20 years to the literature on innovation …, innovation policy and technological change. I offer first a necessarily subjective view of how the research literatures of … innovation and innovation policy have developed in recent decades. I then compare that account with an interpretation of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009188842
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Beating the Bounds? The Introduction of Pharmacist Supplementary Prescribing in the UK National Health Service
Tann, Jennifer; Blenkinsopp, Alison; Evans, Amanda; … - In: Prometheus 26 (2008) 2, pp. 125-139
Pharmacists in the UK were granted supplementary prescribing rights in 2003, subject to further training. Most of those now qualified are practising in general medical practices and hospitals. This qualitative study explores GP and pharmacist perceptions of the introduction of pharmacist...
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