The arguments for refinancing the European Union's (EU) higher education via higher tuition fees largely rest on preserving the profitability of the educational investment and offering deferred and income-contingent payments. Using income survey datasets on Belgium, Germany and the United...

This paper investigates the performance of universities in the transfer of technology using a unique university-level dataset for Spain. The results suggest that universities with established policies and procedures for the management of technology transfer perform better. Universities with...

[eng] The efficiency of the private intervention in infrastructure investments rests on an optimal allocation of liabilities and risks between the private sector and the government. The historical analysis of transport infrastructures' development in Europe and in the United-States shows that...

In this article, we focus on the implementation and development of ICT in the education sector, challenging and developing the traditional learning environment whilst introducing new educational tools including e-learning. The paper investigates ICT as a tool empowering and developing learners...

On s’intéresse ici à la mise en œuvre et au développement des TIC dans le secteur de l’enseignement, qui remettent en cause tout en le développant l’environnement traditionnel de l’apprentissage et introduisent de nouveaux outils, dont la cyberformation. La contribution examine les...

This paper observes that de-industrialisation has been mostly relative in Europe, with industrial value added and employment shrinking in relative terms, but industrial value added growing in absolute terms - at least until recently. Qualitatively, this relative de-industrialisation has been the...