The purpose of this paper is to consider strategiesthat federal laboratories could use to improve technology transfer, along withstrategies that governmental policy makers and private firms could follow.Improving technology transfer in federal labs necessitates a close look at thefollowing...

Article 22 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights provides that “[e]veryone, as a member of society, has the right to social security”, and Article 9 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (“ICESCR”) calls on States to “recognize the right of...

The early 2020s has been a time when social justice movements emerged and became increasingly featured in society; however, researchers such as Martin and North cautioned that it is not clear that these movements would necessarily include all social groups, especially older persons, equally...

This chapter works through the evolution of the concept of sustainability that has occurred over the last several decades under the influence of three main groups: ecologists, the United Nation’s World Commission on Environment and Development, often referred to as the “Brundtland...

Ageism in the workplace not only take an enormous toll on individual workers and their families, but also has a substantial adverse impact on the economy. In 2019 the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe suggested that there are at least three strategies that should be implemented to...

Older persons are entitled to all the recognized civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to work, since such rights are universal and thus belong to all human beings. However, older workers seeking to find their roles in the workplace are continuously...

Social entrepreneurship has been defined as an innovative, social value creating business activity that can occur within or across the non-profit, business, or government sectors, and the leaders of those enterprises, the “social entrepreneurs”, have been characterized as being primarily...

This work provides an overview of several important concepts and themes relating to entrepreneurship including definitions and types of entrepreneurship such as ecopreneurship, social entrepreneurship, sustainable entrepreneurship and growth-oriented entrepreneurship; entrepreneurship in...

Academic and popular discussions about politics, business, media and other aspects of society often include references to “generations”, a term that was first used in the realm of human reproductive biology but which has become an assumption that people born within a pre-determined period of...