Italy is undoubtedly a country of great contradictions: a magnificent artistic heritage and a wonderful landscape in constant threat of negligence and bad administration, if not from corruption. Italy has the record of the most ancient university in Europe—Alma Mater Studiorum was established in Bologna about three centuries earlier than the university in Heidelberg—but it is, at the same time,...

In this paper the case is made that industrial policy in Indonesia should be based on recognition of the entrepreneurial economy and promotion of knowledge acquisition and commercialization through investments in research and development (R&D), human capital, and information and communication technology. Moreover, the current industrial policy framework may not take sufficiently into considerat...

Health services and policy research (HSPR) represent a multidisciplinary field which integrates knowledge from health economics, health policy, health technology assessment, epidemiology, political science among other fields, to evaluate decisions in health service delivery. Health service decisions are informed by evidence at the clinical, organizational, and policy level, levels with distinct...

Contemporary research on business value has examined the impacts of IT investments at various levels of analysis. This research examines the impacts of IT investments by a partner. The impacts of partner’s investments are examined for the individual firms, as well as for the overall value co-created for the relationship. Further, we examine whether the value that is co-created is in fact approp...

the main objective of this study was to investigate the economic efficiency of investment in sugar beet breeding research in iran. the required information including the value and cost of sugar beet production in 2010 and the budget allocated to the sugar beet breeding research were obtained from the office of statistics and information technology of ministry of jihad-e-agriculture and agricult...

Society makes substantial investments in biomedical research, searching for ways to better human health. The product of this research is principally information published in scientific journals. Continued investment in science relies on society's confidence in the accuracy, honesty, and utility of research results. A recent focus on productivity has dominated the competitive evaluation of scien...

Investments in information technology (IT) do not always result in the expected payoffs. The factors which determine the success of IT investments are not well understood. Event studies are one approach to appraising IT investments. In this paper we review major event studies on IT investments, and based on the results of these studies, we propose a conceptual model describing the factors that ...