Academic and political interest in Academic Spin-offs (ASOs) has increased significantly in Portugal in the last few years. Although these firms, created to exploit the results of scientific research, are considered important contributors to employment and wealth creation, in the Portuguese...

The importance of promoting innovation has been elevated up to a status of official standard since the Lisbon European Summit in 2000. Here research and development (R&D) was singled out as an essential element of the foundation on which innovation could be built. R&D has been a growing area of...

This paper explores the relation between the tax behaviour of corporations and their social responsibility. The negative consequences of corporate tax avoidance and evasion are highlighted, namely those affecting nations. The pernicious social consequences of the generalized use of tax...

O presente trabalho propõe investigar o problema da corrupção no contexto das instituições de Ensino Superior.

The existing measures of internal control, self-evaluation and hetero-evaluation in the Portuguese laws about corruption criminal procedures, are not totally respected, creating opacity in these criminal procedures. This situation must be modified, and must be taken the right measures to give...

According to Baumol (1990), entrepreneurship does not always create social value but, depending on contextual factors (rules of the game), entrepreneurial talent may be directed towards unproductive and destructive activities, including white-collar crime. Following Baumol’s hypothesis we...

In the public procurement legislation of the Russian Federation auctions are considered to be the primary procurement method. Having originally introduced live outcry auctions, the Russian authorities were forced to replace them with e-auctions due to many cases of collusion. However first...

This paper reports advances in the entity extraction task (named entity identification) of a text mining process that aims at unveiling non-trivial semantic structures, such as relationships and interaction between entities or communities. We proposed a 3-phase method that is applicable to the...

This text is the beginning of the answer to a question posed upon noticing that a large amount of the outdoor advertising alongside national motorways is illegal: how is this occurrence justifiable? Given this is a problem that stems from a clash between reality and the legislation in force, on...