One of the most important objectives of innovation policy in most advanced industrial nations is the creation of infrastructure to support innovation, facilitating the transfer of technological knowledge to companies to enable them to acquire the tools more useful and effective to improve their...

The MapReduce framework, originally proposed by Google, and its open source implementation, Hadoop, are nowadays considered the standard frameworks, both in industry and academia, to deal with petabyte scale datasets. In this paper we describe a two-rounds MapReduce approach to biconnectivity in...

This paper presents the first assessment of the efficiency of the technology transfer operated by the French university system and its main determinants. The analysis is based on a detailed and original database of 51 TTOs, categorized by type of university they belong to, over the period...

This paper assesses the efficiency of the technology transfer operated by the French university system and its main determinants. The analysis is based on a detailed and original database of 51 TTOs, categorized by type of university, over the period 2003-2007. Overall, we find low-level of...

Recent studies point to the significant effects unintended technological spillover has on profits, market value and patent output of enterprises. The public good character relates not only to technology, but also to (public) science. The paper introduces a new data source on German businesses...

The English and Welsh water and sewerage industry is characterised by indivisible capital which has a long service life. Previous studies of efficiency for the English and Welsh water and sewerage industry take a static framework, assuming all inputs can be adjusted instantaneously. This paper...

The English and Welsh water and sewerage industry is characterised by indivisible capital which has a long service life. Previous studies of efficiency for the English and Welsh water and sewerage industry take a static framework, assuming all inputs can be adjusted instantaneously. This paper...

The English and Welsh water and sewerage industry is characterised by indivisible capital which has a long service life. Previous studies of efficiency of the English and Welsh water and sewerage industry take a static framework, assuming all inputs can be adjusted instantaneously. This paper...

The implementation of public programs to support business R&D projects requires the establishment of a selection process. This selection process faces various difficulties, which include the measurement of the impact of the R&D projects as well as selection process optimization among projects...

The implementation of public programs to support business R&D projects requires the establishment of a selection process. This selection process faces various difficulties, which include the measurement of the impact of the R&D projects as well as selection process optimization among projects...