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Three volume report on the question of including sterling in the exchange rate mechanism of the European Monetary system, issued in 1985.

Der Bericht versucht die Beantwortung zweier Fragen: 1. War das Europäische Währungssystem (EWS) bisher ein Erfolg, und in welchem Maße hat es die Wirtschaftspoltik der Mitgliedsländer beeinflußt? 2. Welche Kosten und welcher Nutzen erwachsen voraussichtlich Großbritannien durch Einbeziehung seiner Währung in den Wechselkursmechanismus des EWS? Die Analyse der Argumente zeigt, daß die abschließende Empfehlung zur Beibehaltung des Status quo auf ausschließlich politischen, nicht veröffentlichten Überlegungen beruhen muß; ökonomische Gründe können dafür nicht länger angeführt werden. (AuD-Lut)

Despite a wealth of efforts that examine separately the role entrepreneurs and universities play in economic development, no systematic effort has been made to examine the role universities play in promoting economic development through entrepreneurship. This book fills that gap, focusing on policy aspects of government-university partnerships with a discussion both of best practices and problematic strategies. The book begins by tracing the history of American government-university-industry partnerships that have promoted economic development. In succeeding chapters, well-known scholars focus on linkages in different domains such as: technology transfer, innovation networks, brain drain, cluster-based planning, and manufacturing. Practitioner commentaries follow many of the chapters in order to present an evaluation of the arguments from the perspective of someone directly involved in the fostering of these relationships

In this unique and timely volume, Scott Shane systematically explains the formation of university spinoff companies and their role in the commercialization of university technology and wealth creation in the United States and elsewhere. The importance of university spinoff activity is discussed and the historical development of university spinoff ventures is traced over time

In the first exhaustive treatment of the field in 20 years, Scott Shane extends the analysis of entrepreneurship by offering an overarching conceptual framework that explains the different parts of the entrepreneurial process - the opportunities, the people who pursue them, the skills and strategies used to organize and exploit opportunities, and the environmental conditions favorable to them - in a coherent way

Andrew Scott, who played a key role in identifying fossilized charcoal, describes the profound impact of fire through Earth history, from its role in mass extinctions and the spread of flowering plants, to early hominid use of fire, and the role of wildfires on landscapes today.