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Open innovation

researching a new paradigm

"Open Innovation" describes an emergent model of innovation in which firms draw on research and development that may lie outside their own boundaries. In some cases, such as open source software, this research and development can take place in a non-proprietary manner. Henry Chesbrough and ...

Costes, precios y rendimiento de los servicios públicos locales

(especial consideración de los servicios sociales)

Los servicios públicos que los gobiernos locales ofrecen a sus ciudadanos suponen, en una parte importante, la garantía del bienestar y de la cohesión social de la comunidad. Las dificultades financieras que dichos gobiernos tienen para atender las crecientes necesidades, en particular en el ámbito ...

La revolución de la riqueza

Este atractivo ensayo contiene un gran número de novedosas ideas, explicadas con gran claridad, que aspiran a iluminarnos sobre el futuro económico y social que se avecina. Los autores plantean lúcidas reflexiones sobre la tecnología, las comunicaciones o el comercio entre distintos países y sobre ...

La sonrisa de Pitágoras

matemáticas para diletantes

Ante el recelo que tradicionalmente suscitan las matemáticas y la habitual acusación de que no sirven de mucho en la vida cotidiana, el autor ofrece una explicación muy amena y rigurosa del mundo de los números, su historia y sus innumerables aplicaciones prácticas. Tal como ...

Nuovo diritto delle procedure concorsuali

Dalla legge 12 maggio, n. 80 al d.lgs. 9 gennaio 2006, n. 5

Il presente testo nasce dalla convinzione che, invero, molte delle questioni che frequentemente si pongono allo studioso possono essere esposte, nei loro termini essenziali, ricorrendo ad argomentazioni semplici, sì da consentire allo studente di confrontarsi con le varie tematiche, esercitando liberamente la riflessione, anche se ...

Open source database driven web development

a guide for information professionals

The Author: Isaac Hunter Dunlap is an experienced web developer who has created numerous database driven applications with Open Source technology. He is Associate Professor and Coordinator of Information Systems at Western Illinois University Libraries. Summary: Almost every organization seeks a simple means of managing ...

The Oxford companion to food

"The Oxford Companion to Food" by Alan Davidson, first published in 1999, became, almost overnight, an immense success, winning prizes and accolades around the world. Its combination of serious food history, culinary expertise, and entertaining serendipity, with each page offering an infinity of perspectives, was ...

Pathfinders

a global history of exploration

Explorers forged the infrastructure of global history, first by finding the routes of migration that sundered human cultures, then - after millennia of divergence - by finding the routes that linked them up again. Searching tells the epic story of how the route-finders did it: who they ...

La maldita guerra de España

historial social de la Guerra de la Independencia, 1808-1814

#¡La guerra de España me ha perdido!#, diría Napoleón en Santa Elena, sin haber llegado a comprender la naturaleza de un conflicto que no le enfrentó a un ejército, sino a un pueblo. En esta nueva historia de la Guerra de la Independencia, de una ...

La personne biojuridique

À l'aide d'une expression forgée pour rappeler aux juristes formalistes qui rêveraient d'un système prévisible de normes censées, selon eux, "sécuriser" les décisions de justice, l'auteur de cet essai montre combien le droit ne peut être pensé que socialement, en relation ...

Common law et tradition civiliste

convergence ou concurrence?

Convergence ou concurrence? La globalisation économique, génératrice de compétition entre systèmes juridiques, et l'européanisation du droit, puissant facteur d'harmonisation, invitent à s'interroger sur l'état des relations d'interaction, d'opposition ou d'influence réciproque entre la tradition de common law et ...

Towards North American monetary union?

a political history of Canada's exchange rate regime

Many believe that Canada's deepening economic integration with the United States and the worldwide trend towards currency blocs will eventually lead to a North American monetary union. In the first detailed analysis of Canadian exchange rate politics, Eric Helleiner challenges this view. Helleiner finds ...

Droit de l'urbanisme

Les ouvrages de la collection Focus droit ne sont pa de manuels de cours, auxquels ils ne se bubstituent d'ailleurs pas. Il sont totefois conçus comme étant beaucop plus que de simples lexiques de termes juridiques. Ils illustrent en verité un concept nouveau. Après ...

CEO-Speak

the language of corporate leadership

In a post-Enron world in which corporate accountability and ethical behaviour have become increasingly important, Joel Amernic and Russell Craig consider the implications of the corporate language of leadership. Through a rhetorical analysis of the speeches and letters of chief executive officers, annual reports to ...

Digital broadcasting

policy and practice in the Americas, Europe and Japan

Digital television is transforming both broadcasting and, as a result of convergence, the larger world of communications. The impending analogue switch-off will have a major impact on households all over the developed world. Digital Broadcasting considers the effects of digital television on the availability, price ...

Addicted to oil

America's relentless drive for energy security

It has long been acknowledged that in America the car is king. However, America's car-orientated and car-dependent lifestyle goes beyond the culture of fast cars and freeways. In "Addicted to Oil", Ian Rutledge explores the political, economic and social ramifications of the motorisation of ...

High-tech entrepreneurship

managing innovation variety and uncertainty

High-tech businesses form a crucial part of entrepreneurial activity - in some ways representing very typical examples of entrepreneurship, yet in some ways representing quite different challenges. The uncertainty in innovation and advanced technology makes it difficult to use conventional economic planning models, and also means ...

Operational risk

modeling analytics

"Enterprise Risk Management" provides a highly detailed development of the many probabilistic and statistical methods that are used in operational risk. These methods have traditionally been developed in the insurance/actuarial field, but they are now applicable to operational risk measurement and management. In the ...

Management and creativity

from creative industries to creative management

In this book, Chris Bilton, who has worked as a performer, writer, arts worker and academic, challenges the stereotypical opposition between 'creatives' and 'suits'. Creativity, he suggests, is not just about spontaneous discovery and inspiration, it is also a self-conscious, deliberately managed process. Similarly, management ...

German Idealism

an anthology and guide

This book presents a thematically arranged set of readings. This anthology brings together 26 readings from the classic works of German Idealist philosophy. The four towering figures - Kant, Fichte, Hegel and Schelling - are given extensive coverage, while the work of Schiller is also included. A ...