Talk I gave at WIT Research Day 13th April 2011 on Irish Reseaerch Funding Policy, focused on its reference to non-linear theories of Knowledge Production. Draws on my doctoral research that did an analysis of public research policy documents in Ireland 2005-2008. Ireland in this period made the case for huge increases in HERD (funding for R&D in Higher Education), and implemented this from 1998 onwards primarily via the HEA PRTLI and SFI. My case is that this was done without a proper analysis of what impact on the knowledge economy was planned for, or how it could be measured. Now with less money available, we need to revisit the process, make critical decisions, and create clarity for ongoing funding.
Policy and Funding for CER: Making Sense of a Confusing Landscape CTSI at UCSF
UCSF researcher, Michael Steinman, MD, Director of CTSI's Comparative Effectiveness Research initiative presents. View more related presentations and resources at http://accelerate.ucsf.edu/research/cer
EMBA Funding for Ventures, Startups using FinTechMichalGromek
Venture funding, sizes, pro and cons at different enterprise development stages presented during an EMBA session at Stockholm School of Economics in February 2017
A ready to use Template for pitching your Business for funding! See updated v...Alok Rodinhood Kejriwal
Please check the updated and current version of this presentation here - https://therodinhoods.com/post/a-funding-pitch-and-business-deconstruction-template/
Lots of capable entrepreneurs struggle to create effective Business pitches and presentations that they could use to raise funding.
This simple template with an example addresses that pain point and attempts to helps entrepreneurs quickly create a business pitch that they could use when presenting to VCs and angel investors etc.
Policy and Funding for CER: Making Sense of a Confusing Landscape CTSI at UCSF
UCSF researcher, Michael Steinman, MD, Director of CTSI's Comparative Effectiveness Research initiative presents. View more related presentations and resources at http://accelerate.ucsf.edu/research/cer
EMBA Funding for Ventures, Startups using FinTechMichalGromek
Venture funding, sizes, pro and cons at different enterprise development stages presented during an EMBA session at Stockholm School of Economics in February 2017
A ready to use Template for pitching your Business for funding! See updated v...Alok Rodinhood Kejriwal
Please check the updated and current version of this presentation here - https://therodinhoods.com/post/a-funding-pitch-and-business-deconstruction-template/
Lots of capable entrepreneurs struggle to create effective Business pitches and presentations that they could use to raise funding.
This simple template with an example addresses that pain point and attempts to helps entrepreneurs quickly create a business pitch that they could use when presenting to VCs and angel investors etc.
Opponent's questions in the public examination of Marcus Duveskog's doctoral dissertation, School of Computing, University of Eastern Finland, January 29, 2015.
Policy, action or social, research is built and operated on a functional cycle that creates, processes, applies and reviews ideas into action often used for problem solving. Policy research focuses more on practical or actionable social factors, than theoretical considerations. This paper discusses and explains the basics of research; and the nature, application, challenges and prospects of policy research with a case study specifically designed as group exercise for mid-level staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The paper pays particular attention to the need for evidence-based policy making reflecting the importance of research methodology. The paper concludes that a trend exists on organizing workshops to counter listed challenges including lack of knowledge and skills in policy research among those charged with policy inputs; and emphasise on emerging prospects. The paper therefore strongly recommends the kind of workshop organised for the middle-level staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to fill in the gap in policy research knowledge and skills for official charged with policy inputs.
Lecture for a course at NTNU, 27th January 2021
CC-BY 4.0 Dag Endresen https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2352-5497
See also http://bit.ly/biodiversityinformatics
https://www.gbif.no/events/2021/lecture-ntnu-gbif.html
There has long been a view that the outputs of publicly funded research should be publicly available. By this was meant research papers and findings, and it was not felt that publication in journals and monographs that were virtually unavailable at reasonable cost outside universities fully met this need. Open Access is not an attack on peer review or the scholarly publishing industry (although there are real concerns about escalating costs which can no longer be afforded by many universities).
The move to open data is driven by more complex arguments bound up by the need to be more open in demonstrating the uncertain nature of many scientific findings, and the need to manage research data more professionally, yet ensure sensitive or commercially valuable data can be kept secure.
This talk will explain the synergies and ambiguities between open policies and the individual drivers for career researchers and those of universities seeking to balance their responsibilities to society with commercial considerations.
Research is the careful consideration of study regarding a particular concern or research problem using scientific methods. “Research is a systematic inquiry to describe, explain, predict, and control the observed phenomenon. It involves inductive and deductive methods.”
Let's Talk Research 2015 -Juliet Goldbart - Introduction To Qualitative Metho...NHSNWRD
Introduction To Qualitative Methods: Different Approaches For Different Contexts
Jois Stansfield, Maxine Holt, Nigel Cox, Suzanne Gough, Juliet Goldbart, MMU
What is Research - Importance of Research.pptxJohnLagman3
Research is all about the system in a paper. You do research to a specific problem to have the idea how to solve and what system to use to solve that problem. Research has 2 types: Qualitative and Quantitative Research. Quantitative deals with numbers while Qualitative deals with the structure.
Disciplinary and institutional perspectives on digital curationMichael Day
Slides from a presentation jointly given by Alexander Ball and Michael Day of UKOLN in a panel session on Scientific Data Curation at the DigCCurr 2009 Conference, Chapel Hill, NC, USA, 2 April 2009
Early Career Scientist Panel at the International Council for Science (ICSU) ...Kim Nicholas
Six early-career scientists were invited to participate in a panel at the International Council for Science (ICSU) General Assembly in Auckland, New Zealand on September 3, 2014.
ICSU is a non-governmental organization with the mission to "strengthen international science for the benefit of society" through promoting international research collaboration, science for policy, and making science more open, equitable, and ethical throughout the world. Its members consist of over 120 national scientific academies of distinguished scholars elected to provide scientific advice and service to their countries (including the National Academy of Sciences in the US, and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, who award most of the Nobel Prizes). Other members include international scientific unions, which focus on promoting scientific subject areas (like the International Union of Biological Sciences). More info: http://www.icsu.org/
The panelists focused on three priorities for early-career scientists (integrating early career scientists in leadership, providing career support through networks and mentoring, and opportunities and incentives for science for society).
At the end of the session, a decision was proposed by UK Delegate and early career panelist Yvonne Gruender, which was unanimously approved by the voting members of ICSU.
Please note that these slides were slightly modified after presentation (addition of slides 1 & 5, and title to slide 2) to facilitate standalone understanding.
Full panel notes will be posted on http://www.kimnicholas.com/
Opponent's questions in the public examination of Marcus Duveskog's doctoral dissertation, School of Computing, University of Eastern Finland, January 29, 2015.
Policy, action or social, research is built and operated on a functional cycle that creates, processes, applies and reviews ideas into action often used for problem solving. Policy research focuses more on practical or actionable social factors, than theoretical considerations. This paper discusses and explains the basics of research; and the nature, application, challenges and prospects of policy research with a case study specifically designed as group exercise for mid-level staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The paper pays particular attention to the need for evidence-based policy making reflecting the importance of research methodology. The paper concludes that a trend exists on organizing workshops to counter listed challenges including lack of knowledge and skills in policy research among those charged with policy inputs; and emphasise on emerging prospects. The paper therefore strongly recommends the kind of workshop organised for the middle-level staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to fill in the gap in policy research knowledge and skills for official charged with policy inputs.
Lecture for a course at NTNU, 27th January 2021
CC-BY 4.0 Dag Endresen https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2352-5497
See also http://bit.ly/biodiversityinformatics
https://www.gbif.no/events/2021/lecture-ntnu-gbif.html
There has long been a view that the outputs of publicly funded research should be publicly available. By this was meant research papers and findings, and it was not felt that publication in journals and monographs that were virtually unavailable at reasonable cost outside universities fully met this need. Open Access is not an attack on peer review or the scholarly publishing industry (although there are real concerns about escalating costs which can no longer be afforded by many universities).
The move to open data is driven by more complex arguments bound up by the need to be more open in demonstrating the uncertain nature of many scientific findings, and the need to manage research data more professionally, yet ensure sensitive or commercially valuable data can be kept secure.
This talk will explain the synergies and ambiguities between open policies and the individual drivers for career researchers and those of universities seeking to balance their responsibilities to society with commercial considerations.
Research is the careful consideration of study regarding a particular concern or research problem using scientific methods. “Research is a systematic inquiry to describe, explain, predict, and control the observed phenomenon. It involves inductive and deductive methods.”
Let's Talk Research 2015 -Juliet Goldbart - Introduction To Qualitative Metho...NHSNWRD
Introduction To Qualitative Methods: Different Approaches For Different Contexts
Jois Stansfield, Maxine Holt, Nigel Cox, Suzanne Gough, Juliet Goldbart, MMU
What is Research - Importance of Research.pptxJohnLagman3
Research is all about the system in a paper. You do research to a specific problem to have the idea how to solve and what system to use to solve that problem. Research has 2 types: Qualitative and Quantitative Research. Quantitative deals with numbers while Qualitative deals with the structure.
Disciplinary and institutional perspectives on digital curationMichael Day
Slides from a presentation jointly given by Alexander Ball and Michael Day of UKOLN in a panel session on Scientific Data Curation at the DigCCurr 2009 Conference, Chapel Hill, NC, USA, 2 April 2009
Early Career Scientist Panel at the International Council for Science (ICSU) ...Kim Nicholas
Six early-career scientists were invited to participate in a panel at the International Council for Science (ICSU) General Assembly in Auckland, New Zealand on September 3, 2014.
ICSU is a non-governmental organization with the mission to "strengthen international science for the benefit of society" through promoting international research collaboration, science for policy, and making science more open, equitable, and ethical throughout the world. Its members consist of over 120 national scientific academies of distinguished scholars elected to provide scientific advice and service to their countries (including the National Academy of Sciences in the US, and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, who award most of the Nobel Prizes). Other members include international scientific unions, which focus on promoting scientific subject areas (like the International Union of Biological Sciences). More info: http://www.icsu.org/
The panelists focused on three priorities for early-career scientists (integrating early career scientists in leadership, providing career support through networks and mentoring, and opportunities and incentives for science for society).
At the end of the session, a decision was proposed by UK Delegate and early career panelist Yvonne Gruender, which was unanimously approved by the voting members of ICSU.
Please note that these slides were slightly modified after presentation (addition of slides 1 & 5, and title to slide 2) to facilitate standalone understanding.
Full panel notes will be posted on http://www.kimnicholas.com/
I gave this talk to http://www.theiet.org/ on Thu 26th Feb 2010.
It gives an overview of the TSSG (Telecommunications Software & Systems Group). The focus is on the unique model of balancing basic research, applied research and commercialisation activity (roughloy equally) in a research centre in Ireland.
The next part was a call to arms to migrate to IPv6, giving the historical context of IPv4 depletion.
Finally a note was made of the TSSG's progress towards IPv6 deployment, and of our research activity since 199 in various research themes linked to IPv6, particularly SHIM6.
This slide set is designed to give a brief overview of the TSSG (Telecommunications Software & Systems Group) for the IdeaGen event on 15th October 2009. The aim of the event is to link researchers and entrepreneurs in the filed of Telecommunications & Internet to help support regional innovation. The TSSG has a 13 year track record as a regional catalyst for software innovation.
Future Internet Visions: An Opportunity for IrelandMícheál Ó Foghlú
A discussion of European Union Future Internet R&D funding and the TSSG\'s (a research centre in Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland) engagement in these programmes to date, and future opportunities for Irish academia and industry. Presented at the Future Internet Event (http://www.future-internet.ie) Dublin, Wed 29th October 2008.
Students, digital devices and success - Andreas Schleicher - 27 May 2024..pptxEduSkills OECD
Andreas Schleicher presents at the OECD webinar ‘Digital devices in schools: detrimental distraction or secret to success?’ on 27 May 2024. The presentation was based on findings from PISA 2022 results and the webinar helped launch the PISA in Focus ‘Managing screen time: How to protect and equip students against distraction’ https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/education/managing-screen-time_7c225af4-en and the OECD Education Policy Perspective ‘Students, digital devices and success’ can be found here - https://oe.cd/il/5yV
How to Split Bills in the Odoo 17 POS ModuleCeline George
Bills have a main role in point of sale procedure. It will help to track sales, handling payments and giving receipts to customers. Bill splitting also has an important role in POS. For example, If some friends come together for dinner and if they want to divide the bill then it is possible by POS bill splitting. This slide will show how to split bills in odoo 17 POS.
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An EFL lesson about the current events in Palestine. It is intended to be for intermediate students who wish to increase their listening skills through a short lesson in power point.
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
Ethnobotany and Ethnopharmacology:
Ethnobotany in herbal drug evaluation,
Impact of Ethnobotany in traditional medicine,
New development in herbals,
Bio-prospecting tools for drug discovery,
Role of Ethnopharmacology in drug evaluation,
Reverse Pharmacology.
Welcome to TechSoup New Member Orientation and Q&A (May 2024).pdfTechSoup
In this webinar you will learn how your organization can access TechSoup's wide variety of product discount and donation programs. From hardware to software, we'll give you a tour of the tools available to help your nonprofit with productivity, collaboration, financial management, donor tracking, security, and more.
The Roman Empire A Historical Colossus.pdfkaushalkr1407
The Roman Empire, a vast and enduring power, stands as one of history's most remarkable civilizations, leaving an indelible imprint on the world. It emerged from the Roman Republic, transitioning into an imperial powerhouse under the leadership of Augustus Caesar in 27 BCE. This transformation marked the beginning of an era defined by unprecedented territorial expansion, architectural marvels, and profound cultural influence.
The empire's roots lie in the city of Rome, founded, according to legend, by Romulus in 753 BCE. Over centuries, Rome evolved from a small settlement to a formidable republic, characterized by a complex political system with elected officials and checks on power. However, internal strife, class conflicts, and military ambitions paved the way for the end of the Republic. Julius Caesar’s dictatorship and subsequent assassination in 44 BCE created a power vacuum, leading to a civil war. Octavian, later Augustus, emerged victorious, heralding the Roman Empire’s birth.
Under Augustus, the empire experienced the Pax Romana, a 200-year period of relative peace and stability. Augustus reformed the military, established efficient administrative systems, and initiated grand construction projects. The empire's borders expanded, encompassing territories from Britain to Egypt and from Spain to the Euphrates. Roman legions, renowned for their discipline and engineering prowess, secured and maintained these vast territories, building roads, fortifications, and cities that facilitated control and integration.
The Roman Empire’s society was hierarchical, with a rigid class system. At the top were the patricians, wealthy elites who held significant political power. Below them were the plebeians, free citizens with limited political influence, and the vast numbers of slaves who formed the backbone of the economy. The family unit was central, governed by the paterfamilias, the male head who held absolute authority.
Culturally, the Romans were eclectic, absorbing and adapting elements from the civilizations they encountered, particularly the Greeks. Roman art, literature, and philosophy reflected this synthesis, creating a rich cultural tapestry. Latin, the Roman language, became the lingua franca of the Western world, influencing numerous modern languages.
Roman architecture and engineering achievements were monumental. They perfected the arch, vault, and dome, constructing enduring structures like the Colosseum, Pantheon, and aqueducts. These engineering marvels not only showcased Roman ingenuity but also served practical purposes, from public entertainment to water supply.
The French Revolution, which began in 1789, was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France. It marked the decline of absolute monarchies, the rise of secular and democratic republics, and the eventual rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. This revolutionary period is crucial in understanding the transition from feudalism to modernity in Europe.
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5. Vannevar
Bush
• Co-‐ordinated
US
scien>fic
R&D
in
WWII
• 1945
“Science
the
Endless
Fron<er”
This
led
to
seYng
up
of
Na>onal
Science
Founda>on
(NSF),
he
subsequently
chaired
• (May
not
have
espoused
linear
model)
•
Promoted
a
post-‐war
model
of
the
state
funding
“basic”
research,
and
industry
dealing
with
“applied”
research
(though
the
laber
was
spurred
on
by
lucra>ve
arms
contracts)
“The
most
important
ways
in
which
the
Government
can
promote
industrial
research
are
to
increase
the
flow
of
new
scien>fic
knowledge
through
support
of
basic
research,
and
to
aid
in
the
development
of
scien>fic
talent.”
6. (Simplis>cally)
Bush
=
Linear
• So,
although
Bush
did
not
invent
the
linear
model,
he
promoted
it
as
the
model
for
US
R&D
funding:
– Basic
Research
• Leads
to
– Applied
Research
• Leads
to
– Experimental
Development
• Leads
to
– Commercialisa>on
7. Modern
Research
Policy
Rejects
Linear
Model
• Generally
it
now
believed
that
R&D
is
a
much
more
complex
interac>ve
system
• Economists
(Nelson
et
al)
have
posited
a
“Na>onal
System
of
Innova>on”
where
these
complexi>es
interplay
• Educa>onalists
(Gibbons
et
al)
have
posited
“Mode-‐
2”
science,
where
flexible
domains
that
are
trans-‐
disciplinary
are
too
malleable
to
conform
to
tradi>onal
scien>fic
domain
norms
8. Stokes’
Pasteur’s
Quadrant
A
detailed
Analysis
of
Vannevar
Bush,
NSF,
OECD
Frasca>
and
other
ways
in
which
basic
and
applied
research
have
been
split
by
funding
mechanisms,
to
the
detriment
of
technological
innova<on.
Stokes, Donald E. [1997] Pasteur's Quadrant: Basic Science and Technological
Innovation. Washington D.C., USA: Brookings Institution Press.
9. Stokes’
Pasteur’s
Quadrant
Considerations for Use ?
No Yes
Yes
Pure
Basic
Use-‐Inspired
Research Basic
Research
Quest for
(Pasteur)
(Bohr)
Fundamental
understanding?
Pure
Applied
No
Research
Taxonomies
and
Tools
Researchers
are
the
users
(Edison)
(Adapted from Pasteur’s Quadrant: Basic Science and Technological Innovation, Stokes 1997, p. 73).
11. 1990s:
Jus>fica>on
for
Investment
• 1995
STIAC/Tierney
– Science,
Technology
and
Innova>on
Advisory
Council
• 1996
CIRCA
– Assessment
of
management
of
research
• 1998-‐1999
Technology
Foresight
Exercise
– Iden>fied
ICT
and
Biotechnology
as
key
growth
areas
Theore>cal
underpinnings:
Na>onal
Systems
of
Innova>on
(Nelson
et
al)
Ra>onale
for
investment
given
in
terms
of
economic
impera>ves,
“knowledge
economy/society”
12. 1998-‐2002:
Implementa>on
• 1998
HEA
PRTLI
Established
– Funding
for
basic
research
and
capital
investment
• 2000
IRCHSS
Established
– Humani>es
and
Social
Science
• 2001
SFI
Established
– Arising
from
Technology
Foresight
• 2001
IRCSET
Established
– Science,
Engineering
and
Technology
13. 2000s:
Policy
by
Metrics?
• 2004
Enterprise
Strategy
Group
• 2004
OECD
Review
of
Higher
Educa>on
• 2006
SSTI
2006-‐13
(Strategy
for
Science,
Technology
and
Innova>on)
• 2009
Innova>on
Task
Force
Theore>cal
jus>fica>on
of
NSI
lost
in
published
policies.
Strong
emphasis
on
pragma>c
governance
and
organisa>on,
establishment
of
cabinet
subcommibee,
efficient
financial
approvals,
and
targets.
15. TSSG
Experience
• HEA
PRTLI
Cycles
2,
3,
and
4
(success
in
laber
2)
– Importance
of
Ins>tu>onal
Strategy
documents
• SFI
CSET,
Joint-‐PI,
SRC
(success
in
laber
2)
– Importance
of
pure
basic
academic
criteria
– Industrial
impact
in
earlier
proposals
nominal,
now
less
so
• Enterprise
Ireland
CF-‐TD
– Never
had
the
same
level
of
funding
as
HEA/SFI
• EU
FP4,
FP5,
FP6,
FP7
– Always
open,
no
biases
17. Ireland’s
R&D
Policy
• Jus>fica>on
was
more
theore>cally
based
than
implementa>on
• Quality
of
debate
poor,
lack
of
solid
theore>cal
basis,
implicit
assump>on
of
linear
model
• Lack
of
detailed
published
studies
of
Ireland’s
own
Na>onal
Innova>on
System,
par>cularly
in
SFI
priority
areas
-‐
what
are
our
innova>on
catalysts?
• However,
investment
did
create
opportuni>es,
and
s>mulated
excellent
R&D
ac>vity
18. Linear
=
favour
Irish
Universi>es?
• Part
of
the
Ins>tute
of
Technology
sectoral
strength
is
in
its
aYtudes
to
industry,
from
giving
due
recogni>on
to
industrial
experience
in
staff
recruitment,
to
its
contribu>ons
to
regional
and
na>onal
networks
of
innova>on
• Linear
model
assumes
key
basic
research
metrics
predominate,
and
underplay
the
linkages
and
networks
required
to
effect
change
• But
it
is
too
simplis>c
to
simply
equate
the
linear
model
with
an
argument
for
preserving
the
binary
system
20. Contact
Details
Dr
Mícheál
Ó
Foghlú TSSG
Offices:
TSSG,
WIT
mofoghlu@tssg.org TSSG
(Waterford,
Ireland)
Headquarters
+353
51
302963
(w) ArcLabs
Research
&
Innova>on
Building
+353
86
8044640
(m) WIT
West
Campus,
Carriganore
Co.
Waterford,
Ireland
TSSG
(Dublin,
Ireland)
Customer
Mee<ngs
Digital
Depot,
Roe
Lane
The
Digital
Hub
Dublin
8,
Ireland
21. Selected
Bibliography
Ó
Foghlú,
Mícheál
2010
Science,
Engineering
and
Technology
Research
Funding
Policy
in
Ireland
1995-‐2008:
A
Policy
Document
Analysis,
Doctoral
Thesis,
University
of
Sheffield
Calvert,
Jane
[2004]
The
idea
of
“Basic
Research"
in
language
and
pracIce.
Minerva,
42(3):pp.
251-‐268.
Gibbons,
Michael;
Limoges,
Camille;
Nowotny,
Helga;
Schwartzman,
Simon;
Scob,
Peter;
and
Trow,
Mar>n
[1994]
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of
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and
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Benoit
[2006]
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of
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The
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construc>on
of
an
analy>cal
framework.
Science,
Technology
and
Human
Values,
31(6):pp.
639-‐667.
Nelson,
Richard
R.,
editor
[1993]
NaIonal
InnovaIon
Systems:
A
ComparaIve
Analysis.
Oxford,
UK:
Oxford
University
Press.
Nowotny,
Helga;
Scob,
Peter;
and
Gibbons,
Michael
[2001]
Rethinking
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and
the
Public
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an
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of
Uncertainty.
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Donald
E.
[1997]
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Quadrant:
Basic
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and
Technological
InnovaIon.
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D.C.,
USA:
Brookings
Ins>tu>on
Press.