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Innovation, competitiveness and growth without R&D? : analysis of corporate R&D investment - a country approach: Italy; November 2014
Moncada-Paternò-Castello, Pietro (contributor);  … - European Commission / Joint Research Centre - 2014
The objective of this Policy Brief is to analyse the status of private R&D investment in Italy based on recent evidence and to indicate possible policy actions to boost private R&D investment. For our analysis, we rely on microdata from an unbalanced 10 years' panel data-set (2004-2013), built...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015302463
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Security of gas supply with the ProGasNet simulator : an uncertainty & sensitivity analysis exercise
Mara, T. A. (contributor); Kopustinskas, V. (contributor);  … - European Commission / Joint Research Centre - 2017
Security of gas supply is a crucial stake for the European countries. The ProGasNet simulator has been developed by the European Commission to study the vulnerability of the gas network to different threats. With the simulator the European gas network (or a portion of the network) can be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015287004
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Forest fire danger extremes in Europe under climate change : variability and uncertainty
De Rigo, Daniele (contributor);  … - European Commission / Joint Research Centre - 2017
Forests cover over a third of the total land area of Europe. In recent years, large forest fires have repeatedly affected Europe, in particular the Mediterranean countries. Fire danger is influenced by weather in the short term, and by climate when considering longer time intervals. In this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015287164
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Risk, hazard and people's vulnerability to natural hazards : a review of definitions, concepts an data
Schneiderbauer, Stefan (contributor);  … - European Commission / Joint Research Centre - 2004
This paper reviews 'disaster', 'risk', 'hazard' and 'vulnerability' definitions with a focus on natural disasters at a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015317400
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Sentinel-3 OLCI GI-FAPAR & rectified channels in O10, O11, O12 and O17 bands with uncertainties : algorithm theoretical basis document
Gobron, Nadine (contributor) - European Commission / Joint Research Centre - 2024
Surface reflectances are important for monitoring land surfaces properties state and their changes. Two rectified channels were already operationally delivered in two bands as side products of Fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (FAPAR) using the Sentinel 3 Ocean Land Colour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015321161
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Risk assessment methodologies for critical infrastructure protection : Part II: A new approach
Theocharidou, Marianthi (contributor);  … - European Commission / Joint Research Centre - 2015
This report describes a risk assessment process for Critical Infrastructures (CI) based on the staff working document … from DG ECHO namely "Risk Assessment and Mapping Guidelines for Disaster Management" and DG HOME "on a new approach to the … the DG ECHO staff working document, several Member States (MS) have provided overview of risks where the risk of "loss of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015300060
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Guidelines for deriving seismic fragility functions of elements at risk : buildings, lifelines, transportation networks and critical facilities
Kaynia, Amir M. (contributor); Taucer, Fabio (contributor);  … - European Commission / Joint Research Centre - 2013
The objective of SYNER-G in regards to the fragility functions is to propose the most appropriate functions for the construction typologies in Europe. To this end, fragility curves from literature were collected, reviewed and, where possible, validated against observed damage and harmonised. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015306500
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A simulation approach to distinguish risk contribution roles to systemic crises
Zedda, Stefano (contributor); Pagano, Andrea (contributor);  … - European Commission / Joint Research Centre - 2012
The last financial crisis has shown that large banking crises pose a highly dangerous risk to both the real economy and … public finances. Reducing that risk has become a priority for regulators and governments, but the debate on how to deal with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015307410
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Dealing with uncertainty in sustainability assessment : report on the application of different sensitivity analysis techniques to fieldspecific simulation models
Ciuffo, B. (contributor); Miola, A. (contributor);  … - European Commission / Joint Research Centre - 2012
Assessing sustainability is more and more becoming a common practice in products, policies and institution appraisals. However, increasing concern has been recognized in the scientific community regarding whether the various available examples of sustainability assessment are really...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015308122
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Dealing with uncertainty in sustainability assessment : report on the application of different sensitivity analysis techniques to fieldspecific simulation models
Ciuffo, B. (contributor); Miola, A. (contributor);  … - European Commission / Joint Research Centre - 2012
Assessing sustainability is more and more becoming a common practice in products, policies and institution appraisals. However, increasing concern has been recognized in the scientific community regarding whether the various available examples of sustainability assessment are really...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015308138