"The BASICS Manual is designed to show personnel at all levels within a manufacturing operations environment that, with easy to understand continuous improvement tools, they can make a difference to operational performance where safety, quality, cost, delivery and people are paramount to...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to identify the impact of public support through equity instruments on firm performance, as measured by growth in employment, turnover and innovative activities. Design/methodology/approach: The paper draws on available academic literature and policy...

Stakeholder participation in decision making processes promises fairness, effectiveness and efficiency and has become the orthodoxy in a wide variety of policy areas, especially in environmental policy making and governance. Central to stakeholder participation is the identification and...

The study provides information on the state of play of established mechanisms for coordination and cooperation of research efforts in Europe (Article 169, ERANETs, COST, EUREKA, EUROCORES, Nordic Cooperation) as well as recommendations on actions to further improve the effectiveness of such...

Stakeholder participation in decision making processes promises fairness,effectiveness and efficiency and has become the orthodoxy in a wide variety ofpolicy areas, especially in environmental policy making and governance.Central to stakeholder participation is the identification and engagement...

Stakeholder participation in decision making processes promises fairness, effectiveness and efficiency and has become the orthodoxy in a wide variety of policy areas, especially in environmental policy making and governance. Central to stakeholder participation is the identification and...