The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is a project-based carbon trade mechanism that subsidizes the users of climate-friendly technologies and encourages technology transfer. The CDM has provided financial support for a large share of Chinese wind projects since 2002. Using pooled...

Aristotle's Three States of Knowledge -- Vannevar Bush's Fateful Omission -- Coalition Eisenhower Didn't Foresee -- Development vs Research -- Everett Roger's Innovation Definition -- Federal Laboratory Consortium -- Government Bias in Funding -- Project Hindsight vs TRACES -- Idea Factory...

The socioeconomic wellbeing of urban areas depends on a well-functioning transportation system that makes it easier for people to access goods and services. Whereas most urban areas in emerging economies are expanding in size and human population, high motorisation and inadequate public...

"Before the arrival of the 21st century, Taiwan was widely regarded as a successful model of a country which had not only transformed herself from an under-developed economy into a high-tech industrialised island, but also undergone a revolution from an authoritarian regime to a democratic one....