What impact do natural disasters have on human mobility and migration? How do collaboration and investments in knowledge management affect process innovation in services? How do diaspora and ethnicity add value to the study of international relations? These are just a few of the questions tackled by our researchers over the summer — in nine working papers, two journal articles, one report, among many others. Click here for the full list. Working papers ‘Natural disasters and human mobility...
The annual European Innovation Scoreboard, co-authored by Hugo Hollanders, Nordine Es-Sadki and Minna Kanerva, provides a comparative analysis of innovation performance in EU Member States, other European countries, and regional neighbours. It assesses relative strengths and weaknesses of national innovation systems and helps countries identify areas they need to address. According to the 2016 Scoreboard, the EU is continuing to catch up with global innovation leaders. But innovation is still he...
What are the links between migration, development and climate change in North Africa? Should firms in developing countries improve their management practices before engaging in innovation? And did the Millennium Development Goals improve the social realities of people around the world? These are just a few of the questions tackled by our researchers over the last month — in six working papers, nine journal articles, and three PhD defences, among many others. Click here for the full list. W...
Clinical trials are an essential part of developing new drugs — but how can we limit or prevent ethical violations? How can we ensure effective governance, checks and balances, amid a proliferation of stakeholders? Part-time PhD fellow Farida Lada gives the background on her research and journey ahead of her defence on 22 June 2016. She explains why she chose the topic and why she felt she needed a PhD to advance her career. ••• You are about to defend your thesis ‘On guarding the welfare ...
Who can afford the Sustainable Development Goals? What are the benefits of innovative clustering? And how to include excluded groups in South African universities? These are just a few of the questions tackled by our researchers over the last month — in 13 working papers and four journal articles, among many others. Click here for the full list. Working Papers ‘The affordability of the Sustainable Development Goals: A myth or reality?’ discusses the budget implications for gove...
Our EU Trend Reports tackle innovative business practices from a policy perspective. They help policymakers better understand the latest trends in business and industry innovation and provide specific policy recommendations to unleash the potential of European businesses and scale-up successful innovative solutions in the EU. Two trend reports are published every year, drawing on case studies and conference outcomes. ••• The latest innovation trends – from space services to extreme recycling — f...
How has the Great Recession influenced labour migration in Europe? What can Chile tell us about entrepreneurial traits and innovation? And what can struggling economies learn from the BRICS group of countries? These are a few of the questions tackled by our researchers over the last month — in two books, five journal articles, one research report, four working papers and two PhD dissertations, among others. Click here for the full list. Books ‘Labor Migration, EU Enlargement, and the...
Timo Goeschl, Heidelberg University Date: 7 April 2016 The anticipation of international failure to stop climate change has given so-called “Geoengineering” approaches new respectability. Geoengineering is the deliberate large-scale modification of the Earth’s climate system with the intention of preventing or limiting dangerous climate change. Its implementation depends on a family of technologies that are yet to be developed. The nature and scale of Geoengineering raises both normative and str...
The Arab region has been a cradle of economic growth in recent decades. While this growth has clearly brought in wealth, there are still countless questions about the characteristics, constraints and implications of the region’s systems of innovation. Do these systems even exist in the Arab region? How do prevailing economic structures affect regional innovation? Is the presence of natural resources a help or a hindrance? A new book on the ‘Economic Systems of Innovation in the Arab ...
How will extreme weather impact our economies? Does more aid guarantee economic growth and better institutions? And does antiretroviral therapy help people with HIV/AIDS on the labour market? These are a few of the questions tackled by UNU-MERIT and its School of Governance in February 2016 — in three working papers and three journal articles, among others. Click here for the full list. Working Papers ‘On the optimum timing of the global carbon‐transition under conditions of extreme weathe...