Nearly all businesses in all industries and sectors possess trade secrets. Trade secrets are a valuable and highly useful form of intellectual property right. It is strongly recommended that you take the adequate steps to protect them because trade secrets can ensure your business advantage over...
This Consolidated Progress Report shows the progress made by Member States with some important themes emerging such as use of 3D technology for digitisation of cultural heritage artefacts, monuments and sites, as well as initiatives to enhance cross-border cooperation and digital capacity in the...
Based on a study conducted by a private consultant, this paper sheds light on a large selection of public assets across the EU and compares their management practices. The paper shows that these assets amount to around €16.5 trillion in 2015, of which 60% are non-financial assets while the rest ...
In the late nineteenth century, the Grand Duchy of Finland benefited from its backward position in the peripheral corner of Europe; its export markets expanded, career opportunities were sought abroad, and foreign ideas and technology were translated and appropriated. At the same time, the ident...
The dynamic spatial general equilibrium model RHOMOLO with endogenous firm location incorporates multiple sources of agglomeration and dispersion. Agglomeration is driven mainly by increasing returns to scale and localised externalities; dispersion by costly trade and imperfect competition. In R...
Global governance is essentially about governance. That is, it is about those mechanisms that make societal or global determinations. Comparative institutional analysis is by its nature focused on governance and governance mechanisms and understanding institutional behavior lies in the dynamics ...
