Technology Policy Between Long-Term Planning Requirements and Short-Ranged Acceptance Problems. New Challenges for Technology Assessment

2000 ◽  
pp. 99-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Armin Grunwald
Keyword(s):  
Technology Assessment ◽  
Technology Policy ◽  
New Challenges

scholarly journals From hierarchies to markets and partially back again in electricity: responding to decarbonization and security of supply goals

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Paul L. Joskow
Keyword(s):  
Market Integration ◽  
Investment Incentives ◽  
Wholesale Market ◽  
Security Of Supply ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Institutional Adaptation ◽  
The World ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
And Storage

Abstract Electric power sectors around the world have changed dramatically in the last 25 years as a result of sector liberalization policies. Many electricity sectors are now pursuing deep decarbonization goals which will entail replacing dispatchable fossil generation primarily with intermittent renewable generation (wind and solar) over the next 20–30 years. This transition creates new challenges for both short-term wholesale market design and investment incentives consistent with achieving both decarbonization commitments and security of supply criteria. Thinking broadly about the options for institutional change from a Williamsonian perspective – thinking like Williamson – provides a useful framework for examining institutional adaptation. Hybrid markets that combine ‘competition for the market’ that relies on competitive procurement for long-term purchased power agreements with wind, solar, and storage developers, ideally in a technology neutral fashion, and ‘competition in the market’ that relies on short-term markets designed to produce efficient and reliable operations of intermittent generation and storage, is identified as a promising direction for institutional adaptation. Many auction, contract, and market integration issues remain to be resolved.

scholarly journals A Reverse Mortgage as an Opportunity to Cover the Costs of Long‑term Care – Solutions in the European Countries

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (347) ◽  
pp. 91-107
Author(s):  
Anna Warchlewska ◽  
Rafał Iwański
Keyword(s):  
Financial Markets ◽  
Long Term Care ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Reverse Mortgage ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Public Market ◽  
The World ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
New Challenges

The progressive aging of the population forces the world to face new challenges, especially in the financial sector. The paper strives to present possible forms of coverage of long‑term care in the private and public market. A reverse mortgage and perpetuity are a point of consideration for the world of science and practice but they are also associated with a great deal of controversy. According to the authors of this paper, the theme requires cognitive exploration. The aim of the study is to diagnose the current situation of financial markets in selected European countries related to a reverse mortgage and perpetuity. Assuming that the sources of funding the current needs of elderly people available on the financial market are voluntary ones, it is necessary to present a forecast covering the costs of long‑term care from public funds.

scholarly journals Technology Resilience and the S.T.O.R.M. Factory

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Pironti ◽  
Paola Pisano ◽  
Armando Papa
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Sustainable Business ◽  
Rapid Changes ◽  
Self Tuning ◽  
Dual Perspective ◽  
Sustainable Business Models ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Operational Aspects

Opportunities opened up by the Industry 4.0 paradigm are related to the acceleration of flexible and open business planning and governance mechanisms to foster the adaptability of the value chain to the rapid changes during ongoing operations by reducing gaps and controlling efforts. The constant search for a dual perspective (short- to medium/long term) and a twofold equilibrium (micro and macro vs. internal and external) is creating new challenges for sustainable business models. The Self-Tuning Open Reengineering Model (STORM) is well suited to explain the organizational behaviours of both industrial and craftsman firms in terms of the strategic and operational aspects of the smart factory paradigm.

The Impact on Employment

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabor Forgacs ◽  
Sara Dolnicar
Keyword(s):  
Just In Time ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Employment Opportunities ◽  
Contingent Employment ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Tourism And Hospitality ◽  
Full Time Employment ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Additional Income

Contingent (just-in-time, or gig) employment is on the rise in tourism and hospitality. People in contingent employment are not offered long-term contracts, but are called upon when needed. This chapter explores whether peer-to-peer accommodation networks are part of the problem or part of the solution. They create new challenges by increasing the competitive pressure on the established commercial sector, which leads to a reduction in jobs and a conversion of full-time to contingent employment. But they also offer new employment opportunities: without entry barriers, people can earn additional income by renting out spare space, and other opportunities – especially for a workforce trained in hospitality – are emerging as listing managers for hosts. These jobs may be particularly suitable to people traditionally struggling with full-time employment arrangements.

Digital Preservation

2022 ◽  
pp. 352-368
Author(s):  
Cahyo Trianggoro ◽  
Abdurrakhman Prasetyadi
Keyword(s):  
Research Group ◽  
Digital Preservation ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Digital Collections ◽  
Previous Period ◽  
Data Preservation ◽  
The Core ◽  
Digital Format ◽  
New Challenges

In recent decades, libraries, archives, and museums have created digital collections that comprise millions of objects to provide long-term access to them. One of the core preservation activities deals with the evaluation of appropriate formats used for encoding digital content. The development of science has entered the 4th paradigm, where data has become much more intensive than in the previous period. This situation raises new challenges in managing research data, especially related to data preservation in digital format, which allows research data to be utilized for the long term. The development of science in the 4th paradigm allows researchers to collaborate with and reuse research datasets produced by a research group. To take advantage of each other's data, there is a principle that must be understood together, namely the FAIR principle, an acronym for findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable.

VP08 Real-World Data Use In Health Technology Assessments: A Comparison Of Five Health Technology Assessment Agencies

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (S1) ◽  
pp. 149-150
Author(s):  
Amr Makady ◽  
Ard van Veelen ◽  
Anthonius de Boer ◽  
Hans Hillege ◽  
Olaf Klunger ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Technology Assessment ◽  
Technology Assessment ◽  
Real World ◽  
Relative Effectiveness ◽  
Internal Validity ◽  
Health Technology ◽  
Real World Data ◽  
World Data ◽  
The Impact

INTRODUCTION:Reimbursement decisions are usually based on evidence from randomized controlled trials (RCT) with high internal validity but lower external validity. Real-World Data (RWD) may provide complimentary evidence for relative effectiveness assessments (REA's) and cost-effectiveness assessments (CEA's) of treatments. This study explores to which extent RWD is incorporated in REA's and CEA's of drugs used to treat metastatic melanoma (MM) by five Health Technology Assessment (HTA) agencies.METHODS:Dossiers for MM drugs published between 1 January 2011 and 31 December 2016 were retrieved for HTA agencies in five countries: the United Kingdom (NICE), Scotland (SMC), France (HAS), Germany (IQWiG) and the Netherlands (ZIN). A standardized data-extraction form was used to extract data on RWD mentioned in the assessment and its impact on appraisal (for example, positive, negative, neutral or unknown) for both REA and CEA.RESULTS:In total, fourty-nine dossiers were retrieved: NICE = 10, SMC = 13, IQWiG = 16, HAS = 8 and ZIN = 2. Nine dossiers (18.4 percent) included RWD in REA's for several parameters: to describe effectiveness (n = 5) and/or the safety (n = 2) of the drug, and/or the prevalence of MM (n = 4). CEA's were included in 25/49 dossiers (IQWiG and HAS did not perform CEA's). Of the twenty-five CEA's, twenty (80 percent) included RWD to extrapolate long-term effectiveness (n = 19), and/or identify costs associated with treatments (n = 7). When RWD was included in REA's (n = 9), its impact on the appraisal was negative (n = 4), neutral (n = 2), unknown (n = 1) or was not discussed in the appraisal (n = 2). When RWD was included in CEA's (n = 11), its impact on the appraisal varied between positive (n = 2), negative (n = 5) and unknown (n = 4).CONCLUSIONS:Generally, RWD is more often included in CEA's than REA's (80 percent versus 18.4 percent, respectively). When included, RWD was mostly used to describe the effectiveness of the drug (REA) or to predict long-term effectiveness (CEA). The impact of RWD on the appraisal varied greatly within both REA's and CEA's.

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