Government Support for Commercial R&D: Lessons from the Israeli Experience

Lessons on Measuring e-Government Satisfaction: An Experience from Surveying Government Agencies in the UK

This paper summarises lessons learned in relation to an ongoing study to collect feedback on e-government systems that have been implemented to e-enable several core administrative functions in the UK as part of the I-MEET project. Previous work summarises findings from surveys of users of such systems and this paper reports on the experience of surveying providers. An extensive survey was desi...

Identifying the Factors Affecting Government Support for Iranian Automotive Industry

This study aims to identify the factors affecting government support for Iranian automotive industry. Initially, based on the research literature, a set of factors was identified and designed as an analytic network process model. To investigate the analytic network model using the Delphi method, the opinion of 25 experts associated with government support for the automotive industry was used to...

THEORIES OF GENDER EQUALITY: Lessons from the Israeli Kibbutz

Because the Israeli kibbutz is innovative in collective ownership, production, consumption, and child care, and in part also because it is erroneously assumed to have once had a gender-egalitarian ideology and structure, it is taken to be a valid test case for many theories explaining or justifying gender inequality or gender equality. This article argues that the kibbutz cannot serve as a test...

Lessons from the Commercial Aerospace Market

The case study evidence presented in Chapters Three through Five of this report suggests that, in the critical area of radar-related microwave and millimeter-wave technologies, the dual-use promise of CMI and related acquisition reform measures is real. The technological breadth and depth necessary to support a comprehensive CMI strategy appears to be emerging, and there is some evidence to sug...

Lessons from the Chilean Experience