The Measurement of Scientific, Technological and Innovation Activities Frascati Manual 2015 Guidelines for Collecting and Reporting Data on Research and Experimental Development

The Measurement of Scientific, Technological and Innovation Activities Frascati Manual 2015 Guidelines for Collecting and Reporting Data on Research and Experimental Development
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2015-10-08
Genre:
ISBN: 9264239014

The internationally recognised methodology for collecting and using R&D statistics, the OECD's Frascati Manual is an essential tool for statisticians and science and innovation policy makers worldwide. It includes definitions of basic concepts, data collection guidelines, and classifications ...

The Economics and Policy of Concentrating Solar Power Generation

The Economics and Policy of Concentrating Solar Power Generation
Author: Pere Mir-Artigues
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2019-05-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3030119386

This book provides an up-to-date analysis of state-of-the-art concentrating solar power (CSP) generation. It focuses on the economic analysis of CSP generation technologies as well as the policies that have been and are being used around the globe to support it. The book describes the industrial sectors whose products make up the solar field, including the traditional manufacturers of turbines and generators.The authors provide the main theoretical tools needed to comprehend the costs of CSP technologies compared to other competing technologies (both conventional and renewable) and discuss the conceptual rationale behind creating public support for these technologies and the costs of various promotional techniques. Further, the book examines the concepts from different disciplinary traditions in economics (including environmental, innovation, industrial and public), which are then combined and integrated for an analysis of the costs and policies of CSP electricity.Addressing the main findings and the challenges for future CSP, the book is a valuable resource for researchers and practitioners. It is also of use to industrial engineers, as it identifies the features of the sector’s supply chain value, rooted in and supported by an industrial economics approach.

Growth and Distribution

Growth and Distribution
Author: Duncan K. Foley
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 388
Release: 1999
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780674364202

Growth and Distribution is the first text designed to support a comprehensive advanced undergraduate or graduate course on the theory, measurement, and history of economic growth. The book, which presents Classical and Keynesian in parallel with Neoclassical approaches to growth theory, introduces students to advanced tools of intertemporal economic analysis through carefully developed treatments of land- and resource-limited growth, and covers money and growth, the impact of government debt and social security systems on growth, and theories of endogenous growth and endogenous technical change. The models emphasize rigorous reasoning from basic economic principles and insights without excessive formal complication, and respond to students' interest in the history and policy dilemmas of real-world economies. Surveys of data and discussion of empirical controversies are closely integrated with the development of theoretical tools. The book includes access to a comprehensive data set extending the Penn World Tables in a form suitable for exploration in hands-on student projects. In addition to carefully worked examples showing how to use the analytical techniques presented, the book contains many problems suitable for inclusion in problem sets and examinations. Detailed answers to these problems are also provided.

Successful Transitions

Successful Transitions
Author: Jürgen Beyer
Publisher: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2001
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Mit dem Umbau aller gesellschaftlichen Institutionen vollzogen die Staaten Ost- und Mitteleuropas nicht nur ihre Ruckkehr nach Europa, sondern auch gleichzeitig eine Gestaltungsleistung. Die sozialwissenschaftliche Theorie begegnete dem 'radikalen' Reformprojekt mit groaer Skepsis. Dieses Werk stellt die nuchterne Analyse der politischen Akteure und Strategien in den Mittelpunkt, denen die erfolgreiche Transformation zu verdanken ist. Anders als fruhzeitige okonomische Stabilisierungsmaanahmen, die sich als entscheidende Faktoren fur die wirtschaftliche Erholung erwiesen, zeigen die ubrigen Teile des Reformpakets einschliealich der Privatisierungs-, Finanz- und Sozialpolitik betrachtliche Unterschiede. Ihre vergleichende Analyse enthullt sowohl die nationalen Besonderheiten der Personenkonstellationen und Reformprozesse als auch die gemeinsamen Merkmale dieses vorbildlosen Groaprojektes der gesellschaftlichen Umgestaltung. Der Band wendet sich an alle, die zuverlassige Informationen uber die Reformprozesse wunschen, insbesondere Politikwissenschaftler, Wirtschaftsexperten und Zeithistoriker sowie Politiker und Journalisten.