Policy makers bemoan the lack of research findings to guide urgent decisions, whereas researchers' professional code puts rigor first. This article argues that provisional assessments, produced early in the research cycle, can bridge the gap. Numerous case studies point to the importance of...

Статья посвящена обсуждению проблемы создания информационной технологии для разработки стратегии и программы социально-экономического развития ресурсного...

The paper shows new analysis assumptions and a new managementand planning approach for the emergency and development sector- founded on philosophy, models and logic of territorial marketing- and highlight premises and advantages of this use on the base of aqualitative research on operators.This...

The recent crisis of the Washington Consensus has brought with it the return of the involvement of the state in the development process in a number of countries. However, a lot of water has run under the bridge since the golden years of development planning. In this note we review the main...

Исследуются социологические теории социального планирования, выявляются тенденции развития концепций социального планирования, обосновывается необходимость...

In order to valorise the territorial resources of the Grenoble metropolitan area (industrial tradition, entrepreneurship, synergies between research and industry...), the scientific community has progressively formed a technological cluster over the 20th century. This cluster has been at the...

The Objective of this paper is to test the consequences of changes in health status of future cohorts of French elderly on healthcare expenditures. We value the precise effect of epidemiological and life expectancy changes on health expenditures for 2025 by using a markovian microsimulation...

The 6th MEETING ON GAME THEORY AND PRACTICE Zaragoza, Spain 10-12 July 2006

After World War II economic policy in Europe comprised considerable elements of planning. The paper discusses how this shift was related to the conceived failure of the free enterprise economy to provide full employment in the interwar period and to the war experience. The Norwegian post-war...