Cross-sectoral collaboration is argued to be vital for business model innovation sustainability and the tension-filled choices it involves but brings its own complexities. We therefore investigate how institutional logics power affect interests dependencies of City planners real-estate developers involved in developing a sustainable mobility. Through analyzing partners deal with regarding eleme...

Fingerprint identification technology for its implementation in the Schengen Information System II (SIS-II) This report presents the results of a JRC study on the readiness and availability of Automatic Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) technologies for their introduction in the second generation Schengen Information System (SIS-II), The study summarises a review of the scientific litera...

With the development and innovation of new techniques for 5G, 5G networks can provide extremely large capacity, robust integrity, high bandwidth, low latency multimedia image sharing storage. However, it will surely exacerbate privacy problems intrinsic to transformation. Due security reliability requirements storing sensitive images in network environment, verifiable steganography-based secret...

In this paper we present and discuss our experience in using software components in the development of a distributed telecommunications management system called SIS (System for the Integration of Supervision). In particular we discuss how we evaluated and selected software tools that became key components in the SIS platform. The use of software components showed to be a very important factor i...

Most forestry machines being produced today include a personal computer that monitors and controls the harvester head, and an information system that stores data on every action the driver or the machine performs. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) thus provide an opportunity to improve efficiency and competitiveness and possibly also opens up new ways of working for actors in th...

The purpose of this article is to discuss the contributions of the evolutionary theory of innovation on the micro and meso dynamics of environmental innovations. We argue that the evolutionary literature on innovation, and more particularly on technological regimes, provides a relevant framework in order to analyse the various determinants of environmental innovations and the double externality...

This paper reports elaboration and testing of a new theoretical approach to understanding economic development. The focus is on micro-economic geography, informed by theoretical insights on spatial monopoly, on the knowledge capabilities of firms and their networks, and on ‘open innovation’. Sectors in focus are ICT and Biotechnology. Typically in the past, in-house research and innovation in t...

In the face of a growing global burden of resistance to existing antibiotics, a combination of scientific and economic challenges has posed significant barriers to the development of novel antibacterials over the past few decades. Yet the bottlenecks at each stage of the pharmaceutical value chain-from discovery to post-marketing-present opportunities to reengineer an innovation pipeline that h...

Contract Enforcement, Comparative Advantage and Long-Run Growth* The effects of the quality of institutions on economic development and comparative advantage have been so far investigated separately. This paper proposes a theoretical framework in which trade patterns and growth rates are jointly determined by international differences in contract enforcement that affect firms' organizational de...