This monograph has been prepared in the framework of the FP7 project ‘Arts Festivals and the European Public Culture’ (Grant No. 215747, project acronym: Euro-Festival). The project consor- tium would like to use this opportunity to acknowledge the European Commission and, in particular, the ‘Social Sciences and Humanities’ Programme for supporting the Euro-Festival project and also for…
This report studies the way risk can be managed to enhance the procurement of innovation. The latter is a concept that goes further than technology procurement, occurring when a public agency places an order for a product or system, which does not exist at the time but which could (probably) be developed within a reasonable period (Edquist et al. 2000). The procurement of innovation include…
The aim of this compilation guide is to provide absolute transparency in relation to the harmonisation process applied by Eurostat to each Member State original data. The domain covered is the annual current account data (International trade in services - ITS / Geographical breakdown of the current account - GBR). Each year or quarter, the national banks or the national statistical offices prov…