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The Industry and Policy Context for Digital Games for Empowerment and Inclusion: Market Analysis, Future Prospects and Key Challenges in Videogames, Serious Games and Gamification.
Stewart, James; Misuraca, Gianluca - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2012
of sectors. These actors are trying to develop knowledge, products, services and a market for the use of digital games … them to support innovation and uptake of effective digital game-based approaches to empowerment and social inclusion. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011169843
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The Potential of Digital Games for Empowerment and Social Inclusion of Groups at Risk of Social and Economic Exclusion: Evidence and Opportunity for Policy
Stewart, James; Bleumers, Lizzy; Centeno - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2013
service improvement, and employment and growth, but significant activity is still required in research, innovation, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011169907
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Incentives for Academic Entrepreneurship and Economic Performance: Sweden and the United States
Henrekson, Magnus; Rosenberg, Nathan - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2000
The recent 'scientification' of commercial technology has brought the interface between universities and industry into sharp focus. In particular, academic entrepreneurship, i.e., the variety of ways in which academics take direct part in the commercialization of research, is widely discussed....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419527
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Highly skilled temporary return, technological change and Innovation: The Case of the TRQN Project in Afghanistan
Kuschminder, Katie; Siegel, Melissa - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2012
capacity building in the origin country through knowledge transfer, innovation and technological change. The paper specifically … examines the needs, expectations and delivery of knowledge through the TRQN project in Afghanistan. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712238
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An Innovation Policy Framework: Bridging the Gap between Industrial Dynamics and Growth
Braunerhjelm, Pontus; Henrekson, Magnus - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2015
of highly valued products. In so doing, we suggest an innovation policy framework based on two pillars: (i) the … accumulation, investment, and upgrading of knowledge and (ii) the implementation of mechanisms that enable knowledge to be … exploited such that growth and societal prosperity are encouraged. Knowledge is a necessary but far from sufficient condition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011118578
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Education, training and skill development policies in Arab Gulf countries: Macro-micro overview
Nour S. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2014
to improve skill upgrading through enhancing educational system, provision of training, transfer of knowledge …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010774746
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Sweden’s School Choice Reform and Equality of Opportunity
Edmark, Karin; Frölich, Markus; Wondratschek, Verena - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014
This study analyses whether the Swedish school choice reform, enacted in 1992, had different effects on students from different socio-economic backgrounds. We use detailed geographical data on students’ and schools’ locations to construct measures of the degree of potential choice. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818364
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Pitfalls in the Measurement of the Return to Education: An Assessment Using Swedish Data
Kazamaki Ottersten, Eugenia; Mellander, Erik; Meyerson, … - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1994
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Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818483
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A renaissance for social mobility and its significance for the bridge towards postsecondary education
Ritzen, Jo - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2011
Inequality in earned wages is in our western society on the increase. Social mobility is on the decrease. The contribution of education to equality of opportunity is decreasing, because education adapts more slowly to the increasing complexities of our societies than the home and social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712018
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Education, training and skill development policies in Sudan: Macro-micro overview
Nour, Samia - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2011
enhancing the educational system, provision of training and transfer of knowledge. Different from the Sudanese literature, an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712096