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Call for Papers: International Entrepreneurship in the New Global Economy Posted: 2012-02-01 | Updated: 2012-02-03
How do entrepreneurs identify and seize opportunities across borders? How does the nature and impact of entrepreneurship differ across countries and regions? With your help a special issue of the Entrepreneurship Research Journal will tackle these questions and more. Papers that address the role that international entrepreneurship can play in economic and social development, growth, interactions with multinational corporations and global public goods are particularly welcome. Click below for more details.
Third Age Online: Interview with Stijn Bannier Posted: 2012-02-01
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In our first podcast of 2012 we’re joined by Stijn Bannier, who works on our ‘Third Age Online’ project. This international web-based project aims to build and grow a community among the over-50 age group to improve their social integration. We hear from Stijn about the tens of thousands of elderly people now shaping the project: how it connects and trains them to create their own wikis on issues like health and social welfare. Click below for more details.
Migration Focus: EU Mobility Partnerships Posted: 2012-01-27
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A debate hosted by the Dutch Permanent Representation on 18 January found that the EU needs to better communicate its migration ‘mobility partnerships’. Participants also wanted improved coordination between the Commission, member states and third countries, as well as more balance between encouraging legal mobility and preventing illegal migration. Read the blog below for more details and video interviews.
2011: A watershed for economics, technology and power politics? Posted: 2012-01-23
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The Year 2011 was the year of the Arab Spring and the European Winter. A year marked by protest, revolution, and conflict; a year that saw the toppling of dictators and the toppling, ideologically, of big banking. But how will we judge 2011 in a century’s time? Will the Arab Spring and European Winter lead to a more equal and prosperous global society, the kind that many expected to follow in 1989? Or will it lead to even more horrors than we witnessed in the 20th century? Read on below.
Social media for coffee house economists Posted: 2012-01-20
In the wake of the global financial crisis, the economics profession came in for stinging criticism. Locked in their ivory-towers academic economists had, according to some, grown out of touch with policy and practice. Social media offer economists opportunities to re-connect with society, yet there is still a lack of good economics blogs — and on average only 1 in 40 scholars is on Twitter. What is the background to all of this? Read our latest blog via the link below.
Impact of technology sourcing strategies in Chinese firms Posted: 2012-01-20
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Do Chinese firms still need external technology sourcing? What is the added value of combining internal and external innovation activities? A recent working paper explores the impact of technology sourcing on innovation and productivity performance in Chinese small and medium-size manufacturing firms. It investigates whether a complementary relationship exists between the two, and concludes that while each contributes significantly to product innovation, there is no sign of synergy in raising productivity.
UNU again ranked among top global think tanks Posted: 2012-01-19
The United Nations University now ranks 6th among the world’s ‘Best Government-Affiliated Think Tanks’, and its World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) ranks 6th among the global ‘Top-30 International Development Think Tanks’, according to the latest Global Go-To Think Tanks Report released on 18 January. Meanwhile UNU-MERIT rose above the London School of Economics in the December 2011 REPEC rankings, taking 3rd place among the top global institutions in the field of innovation.
World Economic History conference: Call for papers on African entrepreneurship Posted: 2012-01-12
A special session of the World Economic History Conference in Stellenbosch, South Africa, will explore the history of entrepreneurship in Africa. The organizers are calling for papers on the links between indigenous and foreign entrepreneurs against the backdrop of migration patterns and sector specializations in Africa. Relationships between states, elites and entrepreneurs across the continent will also be in the spotlight. See the PDF below for more details. Proposal deadline: 30 January 2012.
Migration, development and sharing research on ‘transnational’ life Posted: 2012-01-12
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How far do migrants stay in touch with family and friends back home? What are the links between transnational living, integration processes and return migration? These were among the topics of a workshop co-organized in mid-December by UNU-MERIT, the Maastricht Graduate School of Governance and Erasmus University Rotterdam. See the blog below for more details, as well as videos and interviews from the one-day workshop.
Full time PhD Programme Posted: 2012-01-12 | Updated: 2012-01-19
The joint PhD programme of UNU-MERIT and MGSoG is a multidisciplinary programme offered by the Maastricht Graduate School of Governance (MGSoG) and United Nations University – Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT), providing advanced training in the knowledge and skills most relevant to public policy analysis and the economics of technology and innovation.
Built around core courses for all PhD fellows, the programme offers training in research skills and methods, as well as specialized courses in governance and the economics of technology. The programme has two specializations leading to the PhD in Public Policy and Policy Analysis at MGSoG, or Economics and Policy Studies of Technical Change at UNU-MERIT. In both cases the PhD is accredited by Maastricht University.
The programme is three years, full time and Maastricht based.
Podcast Audio Channel Posted: 2011-09-28 | Updated: 2012-02-01 In our first podcast of 2012 we’re joined by Stijn Bannier, who works on our ‘Third Age Online’ project. This international web-based project aims to build and grow a community among the over-50 age group to improve their social integration. Click on play, or scroll through our library of podcasts below.
Seminars Video Channel Posted: 2011-10-12 | Updated: 2012-01-27 Welcome to our seminars channel, where we share the latest research findings on global development, innovation and governance with a focus on emerging economies. Our latest recording on 27 January featured Ronald Skeldon, who asked 'Where Next for Migration and Development?' Click on the stack icon to see the rest of the series.
Working Paper Word Clouds Posted: 2011-07-12 | Updated: 2012-01-12 See our latest Working Papers visualized as word clouds. Click play, zoom in, explore, and download directly from the window below. This covers our latest 10 Working Papers as well as thematic and geographic summaries for the year.
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[2012-010] M. Rehm, W. Gijselaers & M. Segers: The monkey on your back?! Hierarchical positions and their influence on participants' behaviour within communities of learning abstract
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[2012-009] A. Konté & M. Ndong: The informal ICT sector and innovation processes in Senegal abstract
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[2012-008] F. Vandeninden: A simulation of social pensions in Europe abstract
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[2012-007] F. Vandeninden: Foreign aid transaction costs abstract
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[2012-006] D. Sologon & C. O'Donoghue: Cross-national trends in permanent earnings inequality and earnings instability in Europe 1994-2001 abstract
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[2012-005] E. de Neubourg & C. de Neubourg: The impact of malnutrition and post traumatic stress disorder on the performance of working memory in children abstract
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