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Every Prime Minister of independent India has guided, if not personally overseen, one prized portfolio: technology. If, in the early years, Nehru and his scientist-advisors retained an iron grip on it, subsequent governments created a bureaucracy that managed everything from the country's crown...

Explosion of the economic relevance of data is related to: first, technological progress that has drastically reduced the costs of collecting and storing data; second, the advances in analytic techniques that have allowed for more advanced processing to extract greater value from available data. So, more value is extracted from exhausted data. Information generated for one purpose can and should be reused for another one, which means that data moves from primary to secondary uses. Data are more valuable over time.

Innovation influences the market and its operators, especially about competition conditions. One of the most significant technological advances relates to the possibility of capturing a huge amount of information and processing them rapidly: two of the main features that make up the phenomenon known as big data. This not only entails the emergence of specialized operators in these activities, but also makes a "data economy" possible.

When you drop your Diet Coke can or yesterday’s newspaper in the recycling bin, where does it go? Probably halfway around the world, to people and places that clean up what you don’t want and turn it into something you can’t wait to buy. In Junkyard Planet, Adam Minter - veteran journalist and son of an American junkyard owner - travels deep into a vast, often hidden, 500-billion-dollar industry that’s transforming our economy and environment.

Confronting sustainable development challenges requires system transformation in Food, Land, and Water! Policy Pathways invites policymakers and sustainable development stakeholders to share their expertise on the policy solutions that can advance system transformation across the globe.CGIAR Research Initiative on National Policies and Strategies has produced a series of policy coherence reports focused on India, Colombia, Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt, and Laos. Each of these reports looks in detail at country-specific challenges and makes recommendations for the incorporation of policy tools that ...

In unserem Interview-Podcast sprechen wir mit Expert*innen aus den verschiedensten Feldern der Wirtschaftswissenschaften über ihre Arbeit und das, was sie antreibt. Dabei nähern wir uns praxisnah und aus verschiedenen wissenschaftlichen Perspektiven aktuellen Trends und Phänomenen der Arbeits- und Finanzwelt. So erhältst Du vielfältige Denkanstöße und (Handlungs-)Impulse – ob nun als Berufseinsteiger*in, Start-Up-Gründer*in oder Leiter*in eines etablierten Unternehmens.

Economists insist that recovery is at hand, yet unemployment remains high, real estate values continue to sink, and governments stagger under record deficits. The End of Growth proposes a startling diagnosis: humanity has reached a fundamental turning point in its economic history. The expansionary trajectory of industrial civilization is colliding with non-negotiable natural limits.

The Official Podcast of the International Journal of Paramedicine (IJOP) is an international forum for scholarly contributions and state-of-the-art research relevant to patient care and the growth and advancement of paramedicine. This will include the areas of paramedic leadership, management, education, operations, culture, and professional and clinical practice. The IJOP encourages exploration of paramedicine from diverse theoretical and practical views from all disciplines including business and economics; the natural, basic, and applied sciences; and the humanities, social sciences, and ...

An exploration of the impact of emotional intelligence in business and life. Co hosts Marie El Daghl and global emotional intelligence expert Dr Ben Palmer invite a different guest each month to share how EI was a game changer in their organisation.