Arbetsmarknaden har gradvis blivit allt hårdare i kultursektorn där utbudet sedan lång tid tillbaka överstigit efterfrågan. Mellan 1995 och 1998 drev Länsarbetsnämnden / AMI Karl Johan i Göteborg i samverkan med SDN Linnéstaden och SDN Majorna ett projekt - "kulturarbetarprojektet" -...

Som en åtgärd mot långtidsarbetslöshet i Alingsås kommun har socialförvaltningen och Utbildningsförvaltningen i samverkan med Arbetsförmedlingen och Försäkringskassan sedan hösten 1996 drivit ett projekt med utgångspunkt i denna grupps speciella problematik. Man har också med en...

The organization of public research labs plays a fundamental role to increase their efficiency and the production of scientific research necessary to economic system. The paper presents the main organizational studies carried out on public research bodies in U.S.A. and Europe. After that this...

The industrial structure of many European countries is dominated by Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). Although SMEs consider the new product development process fundamental for the success in the global market, the level of formalisation of the innovation process is very low (Slywotzky et...

Within the current debate about the role of public research in the modern societies and the relations between public and private research, there is an increasing interest towards a possible rivalry between fundamental and applied research. Some preoccupations arise from the fact that the strong...

Following the growing interest towards the role of the knowledge in the modern economies the economic literature has focused a lot of studies into the role of the producers of new knowledge, e.g. universities and public research institutions. The relations between these bodies and the firms, the...