European procurement schemes and the European Defence Fund (EDF): how should academic research develop?

European Innovation Policy through the European Regional Development Fund

the role of russia in transmission of energy from central asia and caucuses to european union

پس ازفروپاشی شوروی،رشد منابع نفت و گاز، آسیای میانه و قفقاز را در یک بازی ژئوپلتیکی انرژی قرار داده است. با در نظر گرفتن این منابع هیدروکربنی، این منطقه به یک میدانجنگ و رقابت تجاری برای بازی های ژئوپلتیکی قدرت های بزرگ جهانی تبدیل شده است. روسیه منطقه را به عنوان حیات خلوت خود تلقی نموده و علاقمند به حفظ حضورش می باشد تا همانند گذشته گاز طبیعی را به وسیله خط لوله مرکزی دریافت و به عنوان یک واس...

The Persistence of European Bond Fund Performance

In this paper we investigate if past performance can be used to predict future performance in the European bond fund market. Both unconditional and conditional measures of performance are considered. To our knowledge, this is the first study which directly analyses the impact of conditioning information in assessing the persistence phenomenon for bond funds. . We find empirical evidence that in...

Implementation of the pan-European academic research network: TEN-155

This paper addresses the implementation of a pan-European network to support co-operative research amongst European researchers: TEN-155. Predecessors to TEN-155 were TEN-34 and EuropaNet. TEN-155 supersedes these two networks not only in terms of capacity offered but also in terms of the Managed Bandwidth Service (MBS) offered. Besides providing a high speed IP service, the purpose of TEN-155 ...

The European Research Council—A European Renaissance

S cience looks set for a fundamentalist revival within the European Union. Its leading proponents are taking advantage of unprecedented political upheaval—as ten new Member States accede to the Union—to press their case for funding of basic research that is driven solely and independently by investigators themselves in the pursuit of excellence. The broad thrust of their appeal calls for the se...