R&D, innovation and competitivness in the european chemical industry

R&D, Innovation and Competitiveness in the European Chemical Industry explores the science & technology base and the dynamic performance of the European "system of innovation" in the chemical industry, with particular attention to its contribution to economic growth through innovation and competitiveness, and its ability to translate its research into commercially useful products. It also analyses the forces that encourage the diffusion of chemical innovations on downstream user industries and among large and small firms. The studies presented in this book represent an analysis of the issues and questions raised by the Green Paper on Innovation presented by the European Commission, for the specific case of the European chemical industry. R&D, Innovation and Competitiveness in the European Chemical Industry will be of interest to industry and government experts related to the chemical industry, scholars; both faculty and graduate students interested in growth, corporate strategy and the management of innovation.

Le nouvel état de l'Europe

les idées-forces pour comprendre les nouveaux enjeux de l'Union

L#Europe est décidément à l#ordre du jour. Alors que l#Union vient de s#ouvrir à dix nouveaux pays, en majorité issus de l#ex-bloc soviétique, les élections pour le renouvellement du Parlement européen auront souligné l#insuffisance des débats portant sur l ...

El sueño europeo

cómo la visión europea del futuro está eclipsando el sueño americano

Los estadounidenses viven y mueren de acuerdo con la ética del trabajo y los dictados de la eficiencia. Los europeos valoran más el tiempo libre e incluso la ociosidad. América siempre se ha visto a sí misma como un gran crisol de culturas. Los europeos ...

Economic transition in Central and Eastern Europe

planting the seeds

Analysing the key problems facing the transition countries in Central and Eastern Europe, this accessible book describes the legacy of the central planners, the progress achieved so far and the need for further reforms. It documents the outstanding successes and failures, and analyses why certain ...

Current economic issues in EU integration

This book examines selected pertinent topics on issues relating to current and future EU developments. In its initial sections, the book focuses on an array of wide ranging micro (agriculture, industry and competition) and macro (EMU, regional convergence and enlargement) issues. A final section is ...

Unidad económica y descentralización política

(libre circulación de mercancías y control judicial de EEUU y en la Unión Europea)

Esta obra analiza en profundidad la muchas veces contradictoria interpretación doctrinal y jurisprudencial de los preceptos constitucionales que en dos regímenes políticos compuestos, como son el de los Estados Unidos y el de la Unión Europea, garantizan la libre circulación de mercancías entre sus subdivisiones ...

The interaction of monetary policy and wage bargaining in the European Monetary Union

lessons from the endogenous money approach

Sebastian Dullien gives a novel explanation for unemployment and inflation in the Euro-Zone. He argues that unemployment stems from a lack of cooperation between unions and monetary authorities: In an economy with endogenous money as EMU, wage setters are responsible for price stability while the ...

Economía mundial y globalización

La globalización de la economía mundial,entendida como la interconexión a escala mundial en tiempo real,gracias al avance tecnológico en el transporte y telecomunicaciones,ha impulsado las fuerzas competitivas y ha permitido la aparición de nuevos competidores que irrumpen con fuerza en los mercados ...

The European Union encyclopedia and directory 2005

This nine volume set of regularly revised titles provides in-depth analysis of all the regions of the world.

Employment policy and the regulation of part-time work in the European Union

a comparative analysis

This book originates from the research project #New discourses in labour law# held at the European University Institute. A detailed analysis of part-time work regulation is presented for seven European countries, in order to ascertain how internal domestic choices of the legislatures have merged into ...

Europe

an unfinished adventure

More than ever before, our conflict-ridden, drifting planet needs the qualities that Europe, unique among the continents, has developed in more than two millennia of history: its self-criticism, its urge to self-transcendence, exploration and experiment, its conviction that alternative and better forms of human togetherness ...

Procedural politics

issues, influence, and institutional choice in the European Union

Under what conditions, in what ways, and with what effects do actors engage in politics with respect to, rather than merely within, political institutions? Using multiple methods and original data, Procedural Politics develops a theory of everyday politics with respect to rules - procedural politics - and ...

European integration and industrial relations

multi-level governance in the making

This book comprehensively analyzes the impact of continuing European integration on industrial relations institutions and outcomes. It organizes an immensely rich body of theoretical and empirical material to sustain its core argument that the governance of industrial relations is increasingly multi-level. Cross-national influences are shown ...

Social Europe

living standars and welfare states

Social Europe analyses the diverse dynamics of the lives of people across Europe. It is the first quantitative analysis of its kind to make a systematic comparison of life chances across the fifteen countries of the EU. This wide perspective enables the researchers to illustrate ...

A bond scheme for common agricultural policy reform

The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is at an impasse. While it is said that existing policies are not tenable, all recent reform plans have been condemned as unacceptable. However, a #bond scheme#, as part of reform that pays more attention to society#s aspirations for ...

Claves para un nuevo mercado de trabajo

una aplicación a la Unión Europea

El mercado de trabajo constituye uno de los pilares básicos de la economía. En un mundo cada vez más globalizado como resultado de las nuevas tecnologías, se compite a escala planetaria, tanto para obtener ventajas competitivas de primer orden (I+D+i) como de segundo ...

A Constitution for the European Union

The leaders of European Union member states have declared that a European constitution should take "a clear, open, effective, democratically controlled Community approach." Their goal -- that within the Union, "European institutions should be brought closer to its citizens" -- raises many questions about implementation. What is ...

An agenda for a growing Europe

the Sapir report

Over the past decade European economic integration has seen considerable institutional success, but the economic performance of the EU has been varied. While macroeconomic stability has improved and an emphasis on cohesion preserved, the EU economic system has not delivered satisfactory growth performance. This book ...

La economía española en la Unión Europea

(1986-2002)

La economía española en la Unión Europea (1986-2002) ofrece una panorámica general de la integración económica y monetaria de España en la Unión Europea,desde 1986 hasta nuestros días. La adaptación al nuevo entorno competitivo ha exigido profundas reformas en la economía española.Cada uno ...

European Industrial Relations Annual Review 2001/2002

Published each year, this review identifies key events in European industrial relations, political economy and social policy during the preceeding year and invites leading academic commentators from across the EU to assess their significance. Identifies the significant trends and developments in the relationship between employers ...