The field of cognitive psychology has increasingly provided scientific insights to explore how humans are subject to unconscious sources of evidentiary bias, leading to errors that can affect judgement and decision-making. Increasingly these insights are being applied outside the realm of individual decision-making to the collective arena of policy-making as well. A recent editorial in this jou...

Having arguably led the world in the transition to a high carbon economy, much of Wales today is economically and socially deprived. Even so, a devolved Welsh Government has set ambitious targets to reduce carbon emissions in the devolved areas, while creating employment and economic opportunities, reducing fuel poverty, thereby helping to solve Wales’ entrenched social and economic problems. A...

today, knowledge is considered as a competitive advantage. so, different countries try to prepare necessary infrastructure for knowledge development in different levels. one of the solutions in this field especially for know-how development is establishing physical places with purpose of doing knowledge based projects. these physical places were established in different countries with various n...

review of studies indicates that development endeavors in science, technology and innovation (sti) arenas are counted as main accelerators of economic growth and social welfare. for that, governments and international organizations increasingly see the evaluation of science, technology and innovation as an important agenda for their policy and action. this article goes to employ document study ...

Although leadership has been studied extensively, most research has focused on the political and military spheres. More recent work has also examined the role of leadership in sectors such as manufacturing and technology, both areas where it is essential to encourage and nurture innovation. Yet, in the health sector, where innovation is now high on the policy agenda in many countries, there is ...

Innovation and new product development pose a number of challenges for a company, demanding critical thinking and decision making towards a conscious and purposeful search for innovation opportunities. This paper identifies the potential sources of innovation in the European Assistive Technology industry and proposes a conceptual model for incremental innovation, on the basis of the Rehabilitat...