Globalization effects on the research and development landscape -- Global technology awareness -- Public-private partnerships for technology collaboration -- Appendixes. A. Workshop statement of task -- B. Workshop participants -- C. Workshop agenda -- D. Acronyms.

What role does noise play in equity markets? Answering this question usually leads immediately to specifying a model of fundamentals and hence the pervasive joint hypothesis quagmire. We avoid this dilemma by measuring noise volatility directly by focusing on the behavior of country closed-end...