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understand and to boost the contribution of engineering and technology (E&T), to improve the competitiveness of Portuguese firms …. This project was based on multiple networks promoting debate and interchange of perspectives between policy makers … internationalization, competitiveness and sustainability. Major features of ET2000 as well as its contribution to policy making are …
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achieve such objective. Any territorial cohesion policy approach, which would not built on coordination mechanisms would … "degrade" in an own sector policy. Coordination mechanisms represent the main tools for achieving territorial cohesion, as the … specification. In practical terms, this means that a discussion of the policy objectives is important in order to progress on the …
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achieve such objective. Any territorial cohesion policy approach, which would not built on coordination mechanisms would … "degrade" in an own sector policy. Coordination mechanisms represent the main tools for achieving territorial cohesion, as the … specification. In practical terms, this means that a discussion of the policy objectives is important in order to progress on the …
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innovation in Malaysia. Using innovation theory as its platform of argument, this paper calls for an open access policy for … used to determine the types of open access policy that ought to be adopted to spur greater innovation among Malaysians. …
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This paper investigates data from reports submitted by finance and insurance organisations employing more than 100 persons to the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency, to identify their approach undertaken in implementing equal employment opportunity. This industry is a...
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Reinforcement Learning (RL) is a learning framework in which an agent learns a policy from continual interaction with … the environment. A policy is a mapping from states to actions. The agent receives rewards as feedback on the actions … performed. The objective of RL is to design autonomous agents to search for the policy that maximizes the expectation of the …
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the links between institutions, economic growth, and policy settings in developing countries based on cross-country (Asia …, Latin America, and Africa), for the last two decades. It has also been shown that many policy effects act not only 'directly …
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This paper explores the effect of political institutions on economic development via its causation of economic reforms. Focusing on the causality between political institutions – democracy, specifically – and economic reforms. After all, one way of improving society's well-being is through...
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FDI is an important source of capital, technology, and skills transfer for both developing and developed economies, this paper explores the effects of three determinants of bilateral FDI, including natural barriers, the “at-the-border” barrier (regional trade agreement), and the...
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