pt. 1. Universities : local/regional institutions of knowledge creation and innovation in national and international contexts -- pt. 2. Universities, entrepreneurship and innovation-driven development -- pt. 3. Academic footstep in the city.

The new development paradigm has led to a new specialization of specific territorial entities and thus has influenced the mutual relations between them. In particular, these changes have influenced the relations between the metropolis and its hinterland. The contemporary metropolis concentrates...

chapter 1 Machine Learning: A Powerful Tool for Biologists -- chapter 2 Mining and Analysis of Bioprocess Data -- chapter 3 Data Mining in Nutrigenomics -- chapter 4 Machine Learning in Metabolic Engineering -- chapter 5 Big Data and Transcriptomics -- chapter 6 Comparative Study of Predictive...

chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter 2 Vulnerability to Climate Risks -- chapter 3 Future Climate Scenarios -- chapter 4 Future Flood Hydrology -- chapter 5 Future Crop Performance -- chapter 6 Economy-wide Impacts of Climate Risks -- chapter 7 Adaptation Options in the Agriculture Sector --...

chapter 1 Securing ‘Our Common Future’ -- chapter 2 Achieving Economic Growth and Reducing Environmental Pressures -- chapter 3 Factors that can Undermine or Even Block Efforts to Achieve Decoupling -- chapter 4 Factors that Affect Poorer Nations’ Ability to Achieve Decoupling -- chapter 5...