By responding to the warning voices about the failure of mainstream economics to provide policy advice to seemingly well-known problems as manifest in the ongoing economic crises, we put forward the proposition that the majority of deficiencies in this discipline results from two self-imposed...

[Introduction:] The evaluation of policy interventions is an essential tool for reviewing and optimizing policies, especially in the field of research and innovation (R&I) policy (BMWi 2013). Policy evaluations involve systematic analyses to assess the design, implementation, and impact of...

The Global Integrated Sustainability Model (GISMO), developed at the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL), is a platform for analysing the complexity of sustainable development and human well-being with regards to the three sustainability domains: People, Planet, and Profit (PPP)....

The report summarized the main contents that were presented at the Second WWWforEurope Feedback Conference, taking place on May 6th 2015 in Vienna. After 38 months of extensive work on essential questions for Europe’s future with a particular focus on laying the analytical basis for a...

Artificial intelligence (AI) can improve the resiliency of both individual financial institutions and the financial sector as a whole. Yet, its users must balance benefits and risks of these technologies. This paper illustrates five focus points which financial institutions should consider when...

Der weit verbreitete Eindruck der Uneinheitlichkeit von statistischen Informationen zur (beruflichen) Weiterbildung dürfte zu einem Teil auf Unterschiede in Erhebungskonstrukten zurückzuführen sein. Denn was unter (beruflicher) Weiterbildung verstanden wird und wie Weiterbildungsaktivitäten...

Wikipedia, Facebook und Flickr sind nur einige Beispiele erfolgreicher öffentlicher Social Software-Anwendungen. Es stellt sich zunehmend die Frage, welchen Stellenwert die Nutzung von Social Software für Unternehmen hat. Der vorliegende Forschungsbericht stellt die Ergebnisse einer Studie zum...