Intro -- Preface -- Technology Policy in the Process of Change: Changing Paradigms in Research and Technology Policy? -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Traditional Motives for Public R&T Policy -- 3 From Material Technology to Technological Practice -- 4 The Crisis of Growth-oriented R&T Policy -- 5 The...

Title Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The purchasing of maintenance services by Dutch housing associations -- Introduction -- Housing associations -- Housing services and markets -- Maintenance -- Purchasing maintenance -- Purchasing process -- The purchasing of...

Key Features:Income disparity is a hot topic in the 21st century. This book reflects the latest developments of economic growth and income disparity with case studies of 11 countries. It reveals how serious is the inequality, where inequality comes from and how to deal with these issuesThe book...

Intro -- NEIGHBOURHOOD EFFECTS ON FIRM SUCCESS AND STRATEGY -- Index -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 A place for area-based policy? The survival and growth of local firms in Dutch residential neighbourhoods -- Chapter 3 Cohesion, liveability and firm success in Dutch...

This edited book is an important contribution to entrepreneurship literature, as it focuses on the sociological aspects of entrepreneurial behavior. The chapters encompass research on social and community-based entrepreneurship and investigate how the cultural and social conditions of a region...

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction: The Paradoxes of Dutch Fashion -- Profile: G-star -- Part I: Dutch Fashion Culture -- 2. Clogs on High Heels: Dutch Cultural Heritage and Fashion -- Profile: Max Heymans -- 3. Contours of the Dutch...

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Dry statistics / real lives -- 1.2 Welfare states / welfare regimes -- 1.3 Our aims and methods: ethics, institutions and panels -- 1.4 Our focus: three countries, ten years -- 1.5 The...

This study analyses how in early colonial times, the peasant society of Sri Lanka underwent fundamental changes in the land tenure system as it faced the arrival of the Dutch East India Company administration's merchant capitalism.