The Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) play a crucial role in the world today. Globalization as we know it and the emergence of so-called Information and Knowledge Society are the direct consequence of radical technological innovations that led to the development of the Internet...

ABSTRACT In the behalf of CNAVES – the Portuguese agency for HE evaluation –we developed this study with the main purpose of assessing the role played by Higher Education (HE) in the usually called lifewide learning process. Likewise six Portuguese HE institutions and four among the main...

In this paper for a public debate promoted by the Portuguese President of Republic in 2000, we start from the basic definitions of information society and discuss the main measures proposed as targets in the firld of work and employment. Structural changes are analysed related with the...

The present Text for Discussion aims to present the main results of applied research with the federal bureaucracy in direct administration to understand the uses of different sources of information in policy making. At all, 2,180 questionnaires were answered in the period from October to...

The aim of the present paper is to provide empirical support for the hypothesis that Brazilians, especially those situated at the top of the social scale, in a great deal, do not recognize the form of the Brazilian income distribution and its high degree of inequality.

Herbert Simon disseminated his bounded rationality approach in his vast academic production. The recognition of the complex environment and the cognitive limits led him to study about the use of heuristics in the decision-making. Around this idea, a new path to the study of human decisions has...

The present Text for Discussion aims to present the main results of applied research with the federal bureaucracy in direct administration to understand the uses of different sources of information in policy making. At all, 2,180 questionnaires were answered in the period from October to...

Portuguese Abstract: Identifica como objetivo da ciência da informação — a partir de BUSH — sanar a explosão informacional por meio da recuperação da informação disponível; argumenta que o campo, embora venha problematizando a significação dessa informação, ainda coloca pouca...

Spanish Abstract: El propósito del presente trabajo es explorar las incumbencias del fenómeno denominado Economía del Conocimiento en relación a las denominadas TICs y su efecto sobre la innovación. Se propone un análisis que, partiendo de la revisión de la literatura y adicionando el...