Compliance is an opportunity that both Authorities and Banks must develop and exploit in order for them to respectively consolidate their own role and their position in the market. It’s the responsibility of the top management (board of directors) to structure, manage and monitorize the...

This paper focuses on IP (Intellectual Property) brokers. We define IP brokers as public or private companies bridging supply and demand of intellectual capital. We will here argue that IP brokers represent a key player in the market of patents, as their role in technology transfer can be that...

In this work we provide a characterization of C1,1 functions on Rn (that is,diferentiable with locally Lipschitz partial derivatives) by means of second directional divided differences. In particular, we prove that the class of C1,1 functions is equivalent to the class of functions with bounded...

The recent agreement on financial perspective 2007-2013 provided new member states with substantial cohesion resources to speed up their real convergence process. The primary objective of the paper is to explore key policy issues, faced by new member states, if they want to successfully absorb...

The presentation focuses on the development evaluation experience and its relevance to investment planning in Europe. Both the development idea and the European project emerged out of the ashes of World War II when the victorious allies sought to turn swords into ploughshares. The new evaluation...

We construct a complete metric space (Y,dY) of measure-valued images, μ:X→M(Rg), where X is the base or pixel space and M(Rg) is the set of probability measures supported on the greyscale range Rg. Such a formalism is well-suited to nonlocal image processing, i.e., the manipulation of the...

This chapter deals with the situation of Cost Benefit Analysis applied to transport projects in France. The principles of the directives now in force are analysed. They are based on the Dupuit surplus, including user’s surplus, external effects and producer’s surplus. The unitary values of...