Some reflections are offered on challenges and opportunities for the JRC as a 'boundary organisation' between science and policy, at a time of increased complexity and polarisation and decreased trust in scientific enterprise. Some specific threats are identified in relation to the key role...

The last two decades have been marked by a growing concern about rising inequality. In a recent book (2012), Joseph Stiglitz, a former Nobel prize winner in Economics argues that rising income inequality is one of the main factors underlying the economic and financial crisis in the United...

This report is the result of work carried out by the Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities at the University of Bergen, Norway. The work was commissioned by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre at Ispra (Italy), and as such this report is the final deliverable of our...

A fairness based narrative is tested against existing EU policy objectives as framed in the EU 2020 agenda. We submit that considerations linked to inequity should not be taken as 'correctives' to be applied to an agenda dominated by innovation, competitiveness and growth. Fairness, or better...

A fairness based narrative is tested against existing EU policy objectives as framed in the EU 2020 agenda. We submit that considerations linked to inequity should not be taken as 'correctives' to be applied to an agenda dominated by innovation, competitiveness and growth. Fairness, or better...

This report investigates the characteristics of social involvement in Europe by tracing and identikit of the shares of individuals that are more likely to be involved with different kinds of formal organizations and showing how each of these groups perceives the political, economical, and...

In this paper we apply State Dependent Parameter (SDP) modelling (a model estimation approach, based on recursive filtering and smoothing estimation) to estimate the variance based main effect sensitivity indices of computational models (a popular method for quantitative sensitivity analysis)....

The purpose of the present work is to offer an easy to read manual for sensitivity analysis. This may help writing more robust or parsimonious models as well as making them more defensible when facing scientific or technical controversy. After an introduction on the role of models in the...

The Gender-Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index (Gender-GEDI) was launched in 2014 by the GEDI Institute. The Gender-GEDI is meant to serve as a monitoring tool of high potential female entrepreneurship in 30 developed and developing countries. The Gender-GEDI uses the most recent data...

The latest edition of the Environmental Performance Index (EPI) was presented and discussed on January 2014 during the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting in Davos. The EPI is released biannually since 2006 by Yale and Columbia Universities, in collaboration with the Samuel Foundation and...