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Part 4: Innovation in Networks; International audience; Due to its promising effects on the economic development, innovation networks have been recognized as an important instrument for the industrialization of regions and nations. Therefore, the creation of innovation ...

We introduce an analytical framework for analyzing tweets to (1) identify and categorize fine-grained details about a disaster such as affected individuals, damaged infrastructure and disrupted services; (2) distinguish impact areas and time periods, and relative promin...

Wissenstransfer zwischen Hochschulen und Gesellschaft sowie gesellschaftliches Engagement von Hochschulen ("Third Mission") rücken immer stärker in den Fokus von Öffentlichkeit und Wissenschaftspolitik (Kap. 2). Auch für die Große Transformation zur Nachhaltigkeit werde...

When television came into our living room, few people could predict that it would become a popular nanny. Similarly, not many people foresaw that the automobile would become a major contributor to air pollution and one of the principal causes of premature death.1 Techno...

After winning the 2006 Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) elections and subsequently taking control of the Gaza Strip in the summer of 2007, the Palestinian Hamas – a hybrid political, social and military actor – undertook a complex process to ascertain authority and...

A cursory look at the history of science and technology development in Iran shows that policy making for scientific development, research, technology, and innovation appears to be a modern phenomenon in the society. Such a review indicates that a robust plan for develop...

In this article, we investigate knowledge exchange at the intersection of science and Swiss public policy in the fields of spatial planning, land use and soil management. Based on a literature review and expert interviews, we identify six types of knowledge exchange, an...

Many academic economists take it as a matter of course that economics should become a natural science. Such a characterization misses an essential aspect of a social science, namely reactivity, i.e. human beings systematically respond to economic data, and in particular...