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Director, Research & Prospect Management (NYC)
Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA)

Reporting to the Director, Development Services & Collaborative Advancement and in partnership with development staff, the Director of Research & Prospect Management will play an integral role in developing cultivation and fundraising strategies for top prospects/donors and is...

Intellectual Property in the Global Information Society. A case of Institutional Overshooting ?

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Intellectual Property in the Global Information Society. A case of Institutional Overshooting ? Should Europe extend software patenting? Should WTO revise the TRIPS agreement? An analysis of the strengthening of intellectual property rights over the last twenty years. By Frédérique Sachwald of the Institut Français des Relations Internationales. France

 

By IFRI, France.

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Understanding Innovation: How firms innovate and what governments can do to help - Wales and Thuring

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Understanding Innovation: How firms innovate and what governments can do to help - Wales and Thuringia compared. This study looks at the relative impact of national governments on the innovation of firms through various infrastructure policies. It focuses on the opto-electronics industry in two regions of the UK and Germany: Wales and Thuringia. While both regions are characterized by active regional policies, they provide a striking contrast in the orientation of their opto-electronics industries and the thrust of regional policy. By Chris Hendry, James Brown, Hans-Dieter Ganter and Susanne Hilland. Published by the Anglo-German Foundation.

 

By Anglo-German Foundation, UK, Germany.

Business Policy Resource.

Utility Regulation

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Utility Regulation. The focus of this report is to understand the interactions between the German and UK firms and regulatory institutions and the influence of these exchanges on the development of regulatory structures. A key question in the development of European regulation is the appropriate level and style of regulation. "Regulating the Utilities: Business and Regulator Perspectives in the UK and Germany" by David Coen, Adrienne Héritier, and Dominik Böllhoff is published by the Anglo-German Foundation.

 

By Anglo-German Foundation, UK, Germany.

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Early Retirement Trends

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Early Retirement Trends. In the 1980s and early 1990s, a variety of financial incentives encouraged a growing proportion of the workforce to retire or leave the labour market early. But this upward trend in early retirement is very unlikely to continue, according to new research by Richard Blundell, Costas Meghir and Sarah Smith. Published by the Institute for Fiscal Studies.

 

By Institute for Fiscal Studies, UK.

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