About VINNOVA VINNOVA, the Swedish Agency for Innovation Systems, integrates research and development in technology, transport, communication and working life. VINNOVA´s mission is to promote sustainable growth by developing effective innovation systems and funding problem-oriented research. Through its activities in this field, VINNOVA aims to make a significant contribution to Sweden´s develo...

This paper examines the relation between financial, corporate and legal systems, and economic performance in different countries. It reviews international comparisons that undertake detailed analyses of individual, developed countries and studies that use large, cross-country data banks, including developing countries. While the former do not provide evidence of a clear relation between differe...

based on a meta-theoretical analysis of voting, the present paper is an attempt to present a theoretical model encompassing all the possible aspects of voting in an election action system, proposing four sub-systems of voting as follows: economic voting, political voting, cultural voting and moral voting. having distinguished among these sub-systems, the writer describes the constitutive elemen...

Interregional transport infrastructure represents some of the largest public investment programs in developing countries. The objectives are typically to increase economic efficiency—overall economic growth—as well as spatial equity—helping lagging areas of a country to catch up with leading ones. But recent theoretical and empirical work on the ‘new economic geography’ suggests that, at least ...

A model is presented that describes the ecologic, economic, and societal attributes of an emerging global innovation ecosystem centred on the work of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia, USA and its affiliated programmes of education, research, and economic development at Georgia Tech Lorraine in Metz, France. It explores the role of leadership, specifically based on social ...

By 1996, 66% of the countries of the world were using elections to choose their top leaders. This wave of democratization was accompanied by a paradigm shift that took the large number of historically clustered democratizations and called it a “wave.” The scholarship has moved beyond overly episodic, event-oriented accounts of democratization to comparative work that investigates the impact of ...

In the paper, information on economic development trends in developed countries are analyzed. The current status of information society and economy of the country is reviewed and some recommendations are given for future development. The problems of Information Society and establishment of its innovative economy are studied. In this turn, development trends information economy in developed coun...

Beauty is described by notions such as attractiveness, loveliness, exquisiteness, and splendor, while human-beings experience beauty in response to visual and auditory stimuli as embedded in open systems that co-evolve with the environment in which they are immersed (Cook et al., 2014). Shared experiences of beauty are considered as exceptionally intense forms of communication, thereby connecti...

In recent years, the trading contact between China and South Korea has become more and more close. In the 21st anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and South Korea 2013, China has become South Korea’s largest export market and largest import market. At the same time, South Korea has become China’s fourth largest exporter and second largest importer of foreign t...

Existing models of our socio-economic system have proved to be of rather limited predictive usefulness. This is particularly true with respect to predictions about the effects of alternative governmental actions and with respect to any predictions of a long-range character. It is even the case with respect to very short-run forecasting. In addition, it is recognized that current models of our s...