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progress of science, is greatly facilitated when basic scientific knowledge is public and open. The paper explores the various …
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Governments rely extensively on expertise, and arguably many of the major accomplishments over the last 50 years reflect the ideas and involvement of experts. Yet expertise in world politics is increasingly contested. What are the factors which influence the future of state to defer to expertise...
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, der Abwertung der Wissenschaft sowie der zunehmenden Distanz der Wissenschaft zur Mitteder Gesellschaft. Der Kommentar … the danger of making inter- and transdisciplinary research more difficult, of depreciating science and of increasing the … distance between science and the centre of society. The commentary pleads for a faster, stronger focus on the very big …
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social sciences or health sciences. China has profoundly globalized its science system; gradually moving from the lowest …
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This study updates the annual comparative analysis of the performance and structures of the German science system. We …-Germany assessment of six sectors of the science system. Overall, all countries increased their scientific productivity over time, with …
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In 1996/1997 Bulgaria was hit by a severe financial crisis, spreading from a banking crisis to a currency crisis … also show how Bulgaria managed to overcome the crisis by introducing a second generation currency board allowing the …
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Using Bulgarian Integrated Household Surveys for 1995, 1997 and 2001 this paper explores determinants of labor force status – not working, public sector employment, private sector employment and self-employment – and earnings for each of the three employment sectors. We find that while...
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This paper exploits the rapid rise in self-employment rates in post-communist Eastern Europe as a valuable ?quasi-experiment? for understanding the sources of entrepreneurship. A relative demand-supply model and an individual sectoral choice model are used to analyze a 1993 survey of 27,000...
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