“Building a New Socialist Countryside” – Only a Political Slogan?

Innovation and Creativity: A Slogan, Nothing but a Slogan

For over 2,500 years, innovation was a contested idea. It became de-contested in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Two types of argument contributed to this rehabilitation: an economic one (utility) and a cultural one (creativity). Over time, the former became dominant in theories, public policy and discourses. Yet many writers on innovation continue to define innovation as creativity. Wh...

Building New Political Actors A Model for the Emergence of New Political Actors

The question of the aggregation and disaggregation of political actors is essential for the understanding of the future of global politics, both in terms of international security affairs and international political economy. A model based upon tribute is presented to show how new political actors can emerge from an aggregation of smaller political actors. The tribute model provides an existence...

Socio-political processes in international management in post- socialist contexts: knowledge, learning and transnational institution building

This paper contributes to the recent debates and emerging concepts in the international business literature by applying a social-institutionalist perspective that focuses on the processes of institution building in ventures between Western multinational corporations and post-socialist enterprises. It is argued that the knowledge and learning processes within these transnational sites are consti...

Implementation of a Slogan Generator

Generation of slogans for companies, products or similar entities is a creative task that is difficult to automate. In this paper we describe our attempt of tackling this problem by combining computational linguistics, semantic resources and genetic algorithms. Introduction Use of computers for support or automation of tasks in creative industries is on the rise. Several such tools and methods ...

A New Security Order for the Persian Gulf: Building a Peaceful Islamic Region