Tuesday, June 26, 2007
What's New - DTI: "Innovation trends: prioritising emerging technologies shaping the UK to 2017
URN: 07/629
DTI occasional paper no. 8. Discusses from an economic perspective trends in innovation and technology. Sets out the background to the prioritisation process for policies relating to emerging technologies that will shape the UK to 2017. A set of concepts about technologies that are likely to have a major impact on the UK economy, society or culture in the near future are debated.
* View PDF
URN: 07/629
DTI occasional paper no. 8. Discusses from an economic perspective trends in innovation and technology. Sets out the background to the prioritisation process for policies relating to emerging technologies that will shape the UK to 2017. A set of concepts about technologies that are likely to have a major impact on the UK economy, society or culture in the near future are debated.
* View PDF
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Research Methods
Research Methods Knowledge Base
a great deal of useful guidance on methods and methodology
Powered by ScribeFire.
Monday, June 18, 2007
Methodology, Institutional Economics, etc.
Geoffrey Hodgson's website
lots downloadable, inc.:
‘Meanings of Methodological Individualism’,
‘The Revival of Veblenian Institutional Economics’
‘The Nature and Units of Social Selection’
‘The Impact of Empirical Tests of Transaction Cost Economics on the Debate on the Nature of the Firm’
‘The Limits to Participatory Planning: A Reply to Adaman and Devine’
‘Darwinism, Causality and the Social Sciences’
‘The Editors and Authors of Economics Journals: A Case of Institutional Oligopoly?’
. ‘Socialism Against Markets? A Critique of Two Recent Proposals’,
‘On the Evolution of Thorstein Veblen’s Evolutionary Economics’,
Powered by ScribeFire.
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
energy environment industry...
EUROPA - European Commission - Enterprise and Industry
In February 2006, the EC set up a High-Level Group to examine the relationship between competitiveness, energy and the environment.... offer advice to policy-makers and ensure an integrated approach to the development of legislation and regulation.
High-Level Group reports:
First report (pdf): “Functioning of the energy market, access to energy , energy efficiency and the EU Emissions Trading Scheme” (02.06.2006)
Second report (pdf): Long term energy futures and investment in power generation and energy efficiency (30.10.2006)
Third report (pdf): Contributing to an integrated approach on competitiveness, energy and the environment policies - Helping energy intensive industries adapt to the energy and climate change challenges; incentives, innovation and technology policies" (27.03.2007)
Fourth report (pdf): Ensuring future sustainability and competitiveness of European enterprises in a carbon and resource constrained world (11.06.2007)
plus more...
Powered by ScribeFire.
