In general the issue of long-term sustainability of public finances is assessed given current policy and behavior. Future demographic pressure on public expenditure must then be met by either pre-funding, reductions in public welfare systems or tax increases. In this paper we explore a third...

Traditionally, Sweden has not belonged to the Anglo-Saxon market-centred welfare model. However, Sweden is today among the European countries with the highest degree of public outsourcing and procurement of welfare services via competitive markets. The aim of this article is to investigate the...

Traditionally, Sweden has not belonged to the Anglo-Saxon market-centred welfare model. However, Sweden is today among the European countries with the highest degree of public outsourcing and procurement of welfare services via competitive markets. The aim of this article is to investigate the...

Traditionally, Sweden has not belonged to the Anglo-Saxon market-centred welfare model. However, Sweden is today among the European countries with the highest degree of public outsourcing and procurement of welfare services via competitive markets. The aim of this article is to investigate the...

Policymakers have made several attempts to introduce local and national policies to reduce CO2 emissions and stimulate the consumer adoption of alternative fuel vehicles (ethanol/E85 cars). The purpose of this paper is to analyze how a local policy measure impacts the composition of the car...

The process of technology transfer is described in the creation of a company spun off in 1998 from an engineering data management system developed at CERN in Switzerland, the site of the world's largest particle accelerator. The first section discusses the chronology and development of TuoviWDM,...