International Workshop on Innovation Clusters and Interregional Competition, 12. - 13. November 2001

The aim of the workshop was bringing together some of the world's leading experts in the field of innovation research and regional economics in order to improve our knowledge on how regional innovation clusters work and how policymakers (particula...

Central European Initiative Annual Summit in Trieste 21-24 November 2001

The Central European Initiative (CEI) was founded by Austria, Hungary, Italy and Yugoslavia in 1989 and has grown to include sixteen participating countries. The primary goal of the CEI is to promote European integration and to assist non-EU memb...

LEED-CEI-EBRD project on Industrial Districts and Local Clusters 2001-2002

Clusters in Transition Economies - Strategies for Innovation and Growth at a Cross-National Perspective.

LEEDDCNovember

39th Session, LEED Directing Committee Meeting, OECD Paris

Corporate Social Responsibility : Partners for Progress

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is business's contribution to sustainable development.Today, corporate behaviour must not only ensure returns to shareholders, wages to employees, and products and services to customers, it must also respond to societal and environmental concerns.

Best Practices in Local Development

This book identifies the strong potential of the local development approach to help regenerate the economies and societies of less developed regions and to bring greater local participation in the decision-making and actions that underpin restructuring.

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• Mejores prácticas de desarrollo local

Devolution and Globalisation: Implications for Local Decision-makers

This book sets out a vision of devolved economic development policies capable of responding to the challenges of globalisation. The key features in this vision are flexible and networked institutions and local strategies emphasising entrepreneurship, human capital and social

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• Devolution and Globalisation: Implications for Local Decision-makers in Russian

Des partenariats locaux pour une meilleure gouvernance

Pour mieux répondre aux nouvelles préoccupations de la population et favoriser le développement durable, les gouvernements sont désormais en faveur d'un large partenariat avec la société civile et le secteur privé. Or, c'est aux niveaux local et régional...

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• Asociaciones locales para una mejor gobernabilidad
• I partenariati locali come strumento di buon governo
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Putting the Young in Business

This book sets out a potential response to two major challenges facing OECD countries: the "youth problem", or the need to ensure that young people can play a full role in society, and the need to foster entrepreneurship for job creation, innovation and economic adaptability.

Redes de empresas y desarrollo local

Conforme el desempleo aumenta, las redes de empresas han demostrado ser notablemente exitosas en la retención e incremento de su participación en el empleo. Esta publicación analiza las experiencias de trabajo en redes y concentraciones en una amplia variedad de países.

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• Networks of Enterprises and Local Development