Innovation ist für die Zukunftsfähigkeit wichtig und wird in vielen Ländern Europas mit unterschiedlichen Strategien gefördert. Diese unterscheiden sich auf den ersten Blick weniger durch das Instrumententarium, sondern durch Zugang, Politikmix und inhaltliche Schwerpunkte. Der Band will die...

This book presents findings and results from the recent European Union Company survey of Operating hours, Working times and Employment (EUCOWE) in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom. The EUCOWE-project is the first standardised company survey covering all...

Written by health policy experts, the book gives a comprehensive overview of 8 different national health care systems and focuses in particular on the different approaches to maintain efficiency and to contain overall healthcare costs.

This volume presents different international approaches to organise public-private-partnerships (PPP) in research and innovation. Besides the German research programme "Forschungscampus", other partnership models from the USA, Korea, China, Australia, Spain, Hungary, the Netherlands, and Sweden...