The adoption of smart specialisation involves a challenging set of novelties in the way innovation strategies are designed. One of these novelties concerns the ‘outward orientation’ of the innovation strategies. In the world of open innovation and global value chains no serious innovation policy can be effective without the ability to connect local knowledge assets with knowledge existing ‘else...

This paper explores the viability of the lecture as a teaching strategy for large groups in light of the various elements that influence the choice of method for teaching large groups. The method employed in this paper draws on the Brunswick Lens Model and Foucauldian discourse to evaluate the dominant pedagogical perspective of the past to translate the perspective into the current view of the...

The Sierra Nevada’s biological distinction and diversity are almost as legendary as its spectacular peaks and beautiful granite landscapes. The Sierra Nevada is recognized as a zoogeographic region on the basis of the coincidence of species ranges (for example, Udvardy 1969, 1975; Welsh 1994). Udvardy (1969) defined the Sierra Nevada bioregion as bounded by the Great Basin to the north and east...

A novel beehive monitoring sensor with two faces is described. This attached to the outside of a hive, near hive entrance. The outward-looking 24-GHz continuous-wave Doppler radar for bee flying activity. inward-looking piezoelectric transducer. Unlike conventional microphone that would pick up sounds bees make, transducer picks incidental vibrations transmitted by activity structure. root-mean...

During the last decade, Austrian labour market experienced a substantial outward shift of Beveridge curve. Using detailed administrative data on vacancies and registered unemployed by region skill level, we test which factors caused this shift. We find that curve shifted primarily because mismatch increased substantially. Looking regional dimension unemployment, increase unemployment for manual...