Sustaining Micro Insurance through Innovation

Promoting and sustaining rural social innovation

Bringing together conclusions from previous studies of social innovation in rural, local, multistakeholder and welfare contexts, this study aims to further develop the scientific insights into the specific mechanisms of rural social innovation, based on a case study of the Swedish part of the European project “Social empowerment in rural areas” (SEMPRE). By analyzing its aims and activities, cr...

Creating, Growing, and Sustaining Efficient Innovation Teams

Economic forces such as the growing service economy and commoditization of traditional value chains have led many organizations to pursue breakthrough innovations as part of their business strategy. There has been an increased interest in collaboration and teamwork as catalysts of innovation, often without a clear understanding of the different kinds of teams that can be used to foster innovati...

0 Networks , Noise and Web Navigation : Sustaining Metcalfe ’ s Law through Technological Innovation

Sustaining Moore's Law Through Inexactness

Inexact computing aims to compute good solutions that require considerably less resource – typically energy – compared to computing exact solutions. While inexactness is motivated by concerns derived from technology scaling and Moore’s law, there is no formal or foundational framework for reasoning about this novel approach to designing algorithms. In this work, we present a fundamental relatio...

Sustaining Fiscal Policy Through Immigration1

Using a calibrated general equilibrium overlapping generations model, which explicitly accounts for di erences between immigrants and natives, this paper investigates if an immigration policy reform alone could resolve the scal problems associated with the ageing of the baby boom generation. Such policies are found to exist and are characterized by increased in ow of working-age highand medium-...