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Charges for Heavy goods vehicles: EU policy and key nationaldevelopments

Nash, Chris; Matthews, Bryan; Menaz, Batool; Niskanen, Esko - 2003

This paper deals with the developments in interurban road transport pricing policy in Europe. …

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Does Trade Explain Europe’s Rise? Geography, Market Size and Economic Development

Studer, Roman - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2009

This paper tests whether the so-called ‘reach of the market’ helps to explain ‘why Europe’ and ‘why north …-western Europe’. By looking at grain markets from the late seventeenth to the early twentieth century, this study concludes that the … neither a concomitant nor an effect of the Industrial Revolution, but indeed a plausible determinant for the rise of Europe …

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eHealth in ActionGood Practicein European Countries

Stroetmann, Karl A.; HAMMERSCHMIDT, REINHARD; … - Europäische Kommission - 2009

This report presents case studies from 30 European countriesfor which validated information was available to theproject by the end of November 2008.This informationreflects the situation of the cases at the date ofdelivery to the project by national correspondents duringthe time period...

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Benchmarking Transformational Use of ICTs: The Role of Social Capital

Gareis, Karsten - Empirica GmbH <Bonn>

ICTs open up radically new ways in which to address the basic challenges of regional development in the Knowledge-Based Society. The transformative potential of ICTs resides, in particular, in the way they enable networking, learning and innovation, and empowerment. A horizontal theme that runs...

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BENCHMARKING USER ORIENTATION OF ONLINE TAXDECLARATION IN EUROPE:ACCESS, COMPETENCE ANDMOTIVATION FOR UPTAKE

Gareis, Karsten; Korte, Werner B. - Empirica GmbH <Bonn>

In order to explore to what extent existing online taxation services arelikely to meet interest on the part of end users, this chapter uses data from arepresentative population survey caried out in 2005 in nine EU Member States.By applying a so-called Access-Competence-Motivation model, the...

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Mapping the Mobile eWorkforce in Europe

Gareis, Karsten; Lilischkis, Stefan; Mentrup, Alexander - Empirica GmbH <Bonn>

Instead of the home becoming a near-permanent second workplace, weface a situation where much work has become more locationally flexible,and workers settle down temporarily wherever it suits their job, tasks andpersonal preferences best, all the time staying connected to the networksthey need...

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eHealth is Worth itThe economic benefits of implementedeHealth solutions at ten European sites

Stroetmann, Karl A.; Jones, Tom; Dobrev, Alexander; … - Empirica GmbH <Bonn> - 2006

The health systems of the European Union are a“fundamental part of Europe's social infrastructure”.eHealth, defined in …

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ICT for Patient Safety: Towards a European Research Roadmap

Stroetmann, Veli N.; Spichttinger, Daniel; Stroetmann, … - Empirica GmbH <Bonn> - 2006

This paper analyses key issues towards a research roadmap for eHealth supported patient safety. The raison d'etre for research in this area is the high number of adverse patient events and deaths that could be avoided if better safety and risk management mechanisms were in place. The benefits...

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eInclusion - Towards a Coherent European Policy Response to Social Inequalities in the Information Society

Meyer, Ingo; Müller, Sonja; Kubitschke, Lutz - Empirica GmbH <Bonn>

As the Information Society turns from a concept to a European reality, the question of ensuring the accessibility and inclusiveness of such a society besomes impossible to ignore. EU policy makers are called on to draw up a coherent answer to this question but are facing considerable...

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eInclusion–A Moving Target for Policy Intervention

Kubitschke, Lutz - Empirica GmbH <Bonn> - 2006

The dissertation is about what is the eInclusion@EU project about, what is eInclusion policy about, how to support the policy process by means of eInclusion monitoring and what to achieve during today.

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