Maastricht Economic and social Research and  training centre on Innovation and Technology

 
Registration opened for UNU-MERIT PhD programme
In September 2009 the next PhD programme in Economics and Policy Studies of Technical Change will start. The programme addresses the role of technology in growth and development in both developed and developing countries. A broad coverage of the foundations of technical change, including theoretical, institutional and policy issues, trains students to be active participants in academic and policy debates.

Deadline for application is 31 January 2009.
See: http://www.merit.unu.edu/phd/phdI/

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    More than half of organisations now believe that the benefits of open source software outweigh the negatives, according to new research by business intelligence firm Actuate.

    The latest Annual Open Source Survey of around 1,000 business and IT professionals revealed that firms are more receptive to open source software in Europe than elsewhere, attracted by lower total cost of ownership.

    The survey also found that the number of firms believing that the benefits of open source outweigh the inhibitors rose from 45.3% in 2007 to 54% this year. Persistent barriers to adoption remain, however, including lack of in-house skills to implement open source software, and a perception that there are difficulties with long-term support.

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    Latest publications

    Public Capital and Income Distribution: a Marriage of Hicks & Newman-Read
    Y. Getachew, UNU-MERIT Working Paper
    Global Migration of the Highly Skilled: A Tentative and Quantitative Approach
    T. Dunnewijk, UNU-MERIT Working Paper
    Learning Networks Matter: Challenges to Developing Learning-Based Competence in Mango Production and Post-Harvest in Andhra Pradesh, India
    L. Prasad Pant, H. Hambly Odame, A. Hall & R. Sulaiman, UNU-MERIT Working Paper
    Private Capacity and Public Failure: Contours of Livestock Innovation Response Capacity in Kenya
    E. Keskin, M. Steglich, J. Dijkman & A. Hall, UNU-MERIT Working Paper
    EU enlargement and consequences for FDI assisted industrial development
    R. Narula & C. Bellak, UNU-MERIT Working Paper


    Conferences & Seminars

    Innovation persistency
    UNU-MERIT, Maastricht, December 03, 2008
    The 5th International Conference on Innovation and Management (ICIM2008)
    UNU-MERIT, Maastricht, December 10, 2008
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    UNU-MERIT, Maastricht, December 18, 2008
    Non-R&D innovation of manufacturing firms: theory and evidence from the third European Community Innovation Survey
    UNU-MERIT, Maastricht, January 21, 2009
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    UNU-MERIT, Maastricht, January 27, 2009


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