The effectiveness of Science and Technology Parks (STPs) as instruments of innovation policy has generated thriving debate among academics, practitioners and policy makers. However, research mostly does not consider STPs’ heterogeneity. The present paper analyses the influence of different STP...

This paper discusses Islamic principles and how they can help in achieving efficiency along with equity in a market system. We start with the concept of ‘human welfare’ in Islam and show how it is distinct from the concept of welfare in western social sciences. The difference comes from the...

The Russian Government remains committed to the resource model. Every year more and more difficult to meet the country's needs for material wealth at the expense of resource revenues. The biggest debate is to validate the measures and forms of government involvement in the economy. The results...

The purpose of diagnosis was: conduct studies that provide full and accurate knowledge of the cultural needs of the residents of Podlasie Voivodship; identify the main barriers to participation in high culture; quantitative and qualitative definition of cultural institutions image, including the...

El objetivo del presente informe es presentar los resultados de un análisis del impacto de las privatizaciones de empresas públicas, en base a la evidencia empírica acumulada hasta ahora por los estudios que comparan el antes y el después de las Empresas Públicas privatizadas, tomando para...

Venezuela’s political institutions have mutated from a subsidised coalition that almost privatised the oil industry to a populist nationalism that is polarising society to the brink of civil war. In this paper, I examine chavismo in Venezuela as a new and unusual revelatory phenomenon and the...

Social Network Analysis (SNA) has emerged as a major technique in the field of conflict resolution and disaster management over the last decade, and efforts are made to manage the conflicts that arise from great disasters. This study explores key actors that can be local or central governments...

The basis of the paper was the syntagm “The hospital should begin to think as a lucrative enterprise not as a non-lucrative enterprise in which all the loss is covered by subsidies” It is well known that nowadays, in the sanitary institutions the new administration instruments put the...

Las empresas de base tecnológica (EBT) adquieren un papel cada vez más relevante en el aprovechamiento deventanas de oportunidad para el desarrollo del sistema nacional e internacional de competitividad (Campos et al.2009). El problema de financiación de las EBT se ha delimitado al apoyo de...

This paper evaluates the impact of the Chilean Supplier Development Program, aimed at improving and stabilizing the commercial linkages between small and medium-sized suppliers and their large firm customers, during the period 2003-2008. Applying propensity score matching and...