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On 12 April 2012, a conference on 'Quality of work and Employment: A policy tool towards inclusive and sustainable growth' was jointly organised by the European Parliament and Eurofound, with the participation of Martin Schulz, President of the European Parliament and with the support of the...
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This dissertation explores different perspectives on the growth trajectory of companies spun off from publicly funded research. It is composed of four papers, of which the first one provides an overview of the environment for spin-offs in Canada, and the three remaining papers present...
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Extract: Infrastructure is undoubtedly the least understood of the major asset classes in Australia. A tradition of … central role that infrastructure plays in both developed and developing economies. Evidence indicates that infrastructure … contributes to an economy's performance, productivity and rate of growth. This suggests that establishing an optimal level of …
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infrastructure. Transformation towards aknowledge-based economy will necessarily shift the proportion and growth of nationalincome ….The knowledge-based economy has four pillars: innovation, education, the economic andinstitutional regime, and information … firms using technology to innovate.Progress towards a knowledge-based economy will be driven by four elements: humancapital …
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declinar.---------------------------------------------An improvement on infrastructure and logistics, by integrating production … of infrastructure with international trade, have had much more attention than the relationship of infrastructure with … infrastructure services and the trade volume among the Brazilian states. It was created an indicator of the existent infrastructure …
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infrastructure upgrades. This integrated database will also allow for spatio-temporal modeling to test a number of expectations about … complex systems, applied to the case of various shocks brought by new infrastructure to resource-dependent regions. We …
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Development Goals (MDG).The provision of infrastructure alone does not account for the provision of an improved, safer and more …
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Infrastructure is a key ingredient in the recipe for regional economic prosperity—a constantrequirement as the U ….S. economy evolves. Roads and rail connect cities, the electric gridconnects industry with energy, and telephone lines connect … businesses with customers. Thecurrent economy places a premium on the high-speed transfer of data that broadbandinfrastructure …
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Los Angeles has had the worst traffic for the longest time out of any American city with many of its residents commuting for over an hour to and from work. The solution to this problem has existed for over 50 years but political forces have stopped its implementation. With the funding problems...
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analysis is to investigate the importance of health, education, and infrastructure indicators for income growth. The second … poverty line. I also find that infrastructure has not been an important determinant for income mobility, and neither has …
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