The purpose of this paper is to consider strategiesthat federal laboratories could use to improve technology transfer, along withstrategies that governmental policy makers and private firms could follow.Improving technology transfer in federal labs necessitates a close look at thefollowing...

This chapter works through the evolution of the concept of sustainability that has occurred over the last several decades under the influence of three main groups: ecologists, the United Nation’s World Commission on Environment and Development, often referred to as the “Brundtland...

Ageism in the workplace not only take an enormous toll on individual workers and their families, but also has a substantial adverse impact on the economy. In 2019 the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe suggested that there are at least three strategies that should be implemented to...

Older persons are entitled to all the recognized civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to work, since such rights are universal and thus belong to all human beings. However, older workers seeking to find their roles in the workplace are continuously...

Long-term care includes activities undertaken by others to ensure that those with a significant ongoing loss of physical or mental capacity can maintain a level of ability to be and to do what they have reason to value and involves a variety of services provided in a number of places and by...

Discrimination on the basis of race is a fundamental human rights issue. The UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights proclaims that all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights and that everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set out therein, without distinction of...

For a long time, a significant potential impediment for sustainability initiatives that required investment of resources in activities that may appear to be unrelated to the traditional focus of corporations on maximizing profits for the stockholders was the fiduciary duties of the directors of...

Sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) have become mainstays of business activities: the percentage of large global companies professing to practice some form of sustainability and CSR has been steadily increasing, sustainability reporting has become the norm and businesses of...

While more and more directors and executives are acknowledging the importance of sustainability to their strategies for financial success, companies have continued to struggle with embedding sustainability into their core business practices and overall organizational design. In order for the...