Purpose Networks and partnerships are commonly-used tools to foster knowledge sharing between actors organisations in the Agricultural Knowledge Innovation System (AKIS), but Europe policy emphasis on including users, such as farmers foresters, is relatively recent. This paper assesses user involvement a diverse set of European Union (EU)-funded non-EU (formal informal) multi-actor partnerships...

Following the global food crisis of the early 1970s, the World Bank has placed a priority on funding agriculture and rural development projects. These projects have been funded with a view to raising the productivity of low-income groups. Projects aimed at increasing the incomes of rural poor must clearly identify the target group and be designed so that they will benefit directly. Some of t...

The difficulties, barriers and challenges in implementing a regulatory framework for a pan-European electronic identity (eID)1 have been analyzed before in a number of studies. Deliverables pertaining to research projects funded by the European Union (EU), as well as study reports prepared for the European Commission in the areas of eID and eGovernment,2 have focused on the legal complexities t...

Research into health systems all over the world has contributed to the development of new disease control strategies, modernized hospital and outpatient care, alternative financing mechanisms, cost-effective interventions and monitoring tools which resulted in improved delivery of care and public health services. But financing of such research is a problem in many European countries – particula...

TOOLSET M. C. Sinclair Introduction In recent years there has been a growing interest in the potential of multiwavelength all-optical transport networks to provide the huge bandwidth necessary if broadband services are widely adopted. As part of this e ort, this paper provides an overview of a toolset for optical network optimisation, modelling and design (NOMaD) [1, 2]. The toolset is used as ...

This paper reports the results of an extensive empirical investigation on the role of project scale (reflected in consortium size and in project budget) on various performance dimensions of publicly funded collaborative research and development (R&D) projects. Recent trends in European research policy are founded on the premise that such scale economies do exist, hence the emphasis placed on th...

We evaluate the effectiveness of most extensive experiment income redistribution, that is, European Union regional policy, at a time economic crisis. By exploiting geographical discontinuities in fund eligibility, we analyse comprehensive data on all publicly funded Italian projects municipality level. find positive impact localized support to firms with sizable increase employment and number p...

The landscape of cultural and creative industries (CCIs) has been changing strongly because new players who have entered the arena by reshaping financing strategies. This work represents a first attempt to describe compare European population crowdfunding platforms used firms creatives launch projects. Specifically, we provide an assessment how where emerge. We also explore extent which governm...

This work was funded by the H2020‐MSCA‐IF‐2018 program (Marie Sklodowska‐Curie Actions) of European Union under REA grant agreement, number 834329‐SEDILAND, REBIOARID (RTI2018‐101921‐B‐I00) and MANMOUNT (PID2019‐105983RB‐100/AEI/10.13039/501100011033) projects Spanish National Plan for Research (Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion) ERDF funds RH2O‐ARID project (P18‐RT‐5130) Consejeria Economia, ...