The University, the Information Superhighway and Regional Economic Development

1995 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 313-318 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laing Barden
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Specific Reference ◽  
Information Superhighway ◽  
Information Economy ◽  
Continuous Innovation ◽  
New Information ◽  
The Uk ◽  
New Research ◽  
The University

In this article, Laing Barden looks at the opportunities offered by the new information economy and, especially, the development of the information superhighway, for universities to play a central role in the economic development of their regions — a role which they must play to the full as the main producers of well trained graduates and new research findings essential to continuous innovation. Professor Barden sets his views in a worldwide context, assessing the strategies employed to spur regional development through university—industry cooperation, and then focuses on the situation in the UK, with specific reference to its response to the challenge of the information superhighway. He discusses in particular the Smart Isles programme, a partnership among some 20 international companies, universities and research organizations. Failure to meet the challenge of the rapidly expanding information economy, argues Professor Barden, will mean failure in a highly competitive global economy.

Finding Law in the 21st Century: An Introduction to the SOSIG Law Gateway

2001 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 360-382 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Whittle
Keyword(s):  
Support Service ◽  
Resource Discovery ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Legal Information ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Uk ◽  
New Research ◽  
University Of Bristol ◽  
The University

This paper provides an introduction to the SOSIG (Social Science Information Gateway) Law Gateway a web based descriptive database of high quality legal information resources on the Internet (www.sosig.ac.uk/law). The Law Gateway is a new research support service being developed by the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (University of London) in partnership with the University of Bristol as part of the UK's Resource Discovery Network initiative. The project seeks to provide access to the expanding range of global legal materials now being delivered over the Internet. In effect, the Law Gateway aims to offer the UK and international legal communities appropriate new ways to find, assess and access law in the new century.

Cable and local economic development: Local authority roles and responses

1996 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 354-364 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Gibbs ◽  
David Devins ◽  
Geraint Hughes ◽  
Keith Tanner
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Local Authority ◽  
Local Economic Development ◽  
Information Superhighway ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Recent Comment ◽  
The Uk

Outline There has been much recent comment about the development of the "information superhighway" and the opportunities that this will create for economic development. Yet elements of such a superhighway are already in place through the activities of cable companies in the UK This paper outlines the development of cable to date and examines the response of local authorities to such developments.

Developing an Entrepreneurship Culture

2006 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 231-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danny F. Sondakh ◽  
Kanes K. Rajah
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Job Creation ◽  
Enterprise Culture ◽  
Economic Decline ◽  
Economic Output ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The University

Entrepreneurship is increasingly relevant to economic output and job creation in both developed and developing countries. It is especially important for the UK, so as to reverse a century of relative economic decline. This paper discusses the UK government's policy on entrepreneurship, and the objectives it has set for higher education institutions. It then goes on to present the initiatives taken by the University of Greenwich to develop an enterprise culture, both within and with the wider community. The paper focuses on the role played by the University's Centre for Entrepreneurship in helping it to contribute towards the UK's economic development and competitiveness. The conclusions reached indicate that higher education institutions need to behave entrepreneurially at both the staff and student levels in order to build an enterprise culture. Staff need to be bold in taking initiatives to seek out processes that can help shift the established paradigm and to introduce new content to achieve breakthroughs in the culture. This is also required to engage students and to help build their personal intangible assets as much as to facilitate them in starting up new enterprises.

Sharing of Worldwide Spread Knowledge Using Hypermedia Facilities & Fast Communication Protocols (Mosaic and World Wide Web): The Example of ExPASy

1995 ◽  
Vol 34 (01/02) ◽  
pp. 75-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. D. Appel ◽  
O. Golaz ◽  
Ch. Pasquali ◽  
J.-C. Sanchez ◽  
A. Bairoch ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Communication Protocols ◽  
Laboratory Data ◽  
Central Element ◽  
University Hospital ◽  
New Information ◽  
The University ◽  
Link Information

Abstract:The sharing of knowledge worldwide using hypermedia facilities and fast communication protocols (i.e., Mosaic and World Wide Web) provides a growth capacity with tremendous versatility and efficacy. The example of ExPASy, a molecular biology server developed at the University Hospital of Geneva, is striking. ExPASy provides hypermedia facilities to browse through several up-to-date biological and medical databases around the world and to link information from protein maps to genome information and diseases. Its extensive access is open through World Wide Web. Its concept could be extended to patient data including texts, laboratory data, relevant literature findings, sounds, images and movies. A new hypermedia culture is spreading very rapidly where the international fast transmission of documents is the central element. It is part of the emerging new “information society”.

Peculiarities of Modern Dynamics of the Global Economy

2010 ◽  
pp. 78-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Klinov
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Business Cycles ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Long Waves ◽  
Rapid Expansion ◽  
Business Taxation ◽  
Modern World ◽  
China And India ◽  
World Economic

Rates and factors of modern world economic growth and the consequences of rapid expansion of the economies of China and India are analyzed in the article. Modification of business cycles and long waves of economic development are evaluated. The need of reforming business taxation is demonstrated.

Our Debts Heavy... (on the Monograph “Debt as a Phenomenon of the XXI Century”)

2015 ◽  
pp. 152-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Leonova
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Debt Financing ◽  
The European Union ◽  
National Economies

Lending capital, credit and debt financing have been around and used to fuel economic development since the time immemorial. There are innumerable studies by international and Russian scholars that look into the evolution of these notions and lending instruments employed. The collective monograph edited by A. Porokhovsky and published by the MSU in 2014 intends to provide an all-around political and economic as well as applied review of the current debt issues faced by the global economy, national economies of Russia, U.S.A. and countries of the European Union. It uses a variety of academic and methodological postulates that range from the reproduction approach to modern macroeconomic doctrines.

MATERIAL HANDLING MACHINES AND SYSTEMS – UMI-TWINN PROJECT CONTRIBUTION

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-20
Author(s):  
Péter Telek ◽  
Béla Illés ◽  
Christian Landschützer ◽  
Fabian Schenk ◽  
Flavien Massi
Keyword(s):  
Material Handling ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
Flow Process ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Scientific Excellence ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
New Research ◽  
Eu Project ◽  
The University

Nowadays, the Industry 4.0 concept affects every area of the industrial, economic, social and personal sectors. The most significant changings are the automation and the digitalization. This is also true for the material handling processes, where the handling systems use more and more automated machines; planning, operation and optimization of different logistic processes are based on many digital data collected from the material flow process. However, new methods and devices require new solutions which define new research directions. In this paper we describe the state of the art of the material handling researches and draw the role of the UMi-TWINN partner institutes in these fields. As a result of this H2020 EU project, scientific excellence of the University of Miskolc can be increased and new research activities will be started.

The training of a polar scientist: Patrick Geddes and the student career of William Speirs Bruce

2002 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 287-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. N. SWINNEY
Keyword(s):  
Future Career ◽  
New Information ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
The University

ABSTRACT: The university career of the polar scientist William Speirs Bruce (1867–is examined in relation to new information, discovered amongst the Bruce papers in the University of Edinburgh, which elucidates the role played by Patrick Geddes in shaping Bruce's future career. Previous accounts of Bruce's university years, based mainly on the biography by Rudmose Brown (1923), are shown to be in error in several details.

James Rennie (1787–1867), author, naturalist and lecturer

2008 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 128-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
FREDERICK G. PAGE
Keyword(s):  
Personal Character ◽  
New Information ◽  
New Research ◽  
Unknown Period ◽  
Unpublished Works

New research is presented on the life of James Rennie (1787–1867) before his emigration to Australia in 1840. Though fragmentary and incomplete the results show Rennie as a naturalist of considerable standing and of literary and scientific skill. This new information illustrates an intriguingly marginal life in science of the period. On his personal character caution is exercised, although a thread of dogmatism, determination and self assurance, bordering on arrogance, can be traced from his student days until his departure from Britain. Rennie's early unpublished essays clearly point to his potential as a scientific writer. Rennie's final 27 years in Australia are not covered in any detail because of the lack of documentation about this relatively unknown period of his life outside Britain. A bibliography of his published and unpublished works is given as an appendix, together with notes and new insights into attribution.

National Astronomy Meeting, Portsmouth (United Kingdom), 23rd–26th June, 2014

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-137
Author(s):  
Pamela Armstrong
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Annual Meeting ◽  
Solar Physics ◽  
Industrial Applications ◽  
Physics Community ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The University

Around six hundred astronomers and space scientists gathered at the University of Portsmouth in June 2014 for the Royal Astronomical Society’s National Astronomy Meeting (NAM). NAM is one of the largest professional astronomy conferences in Europe, and this year’s gathering included the UK Solar Physics annual meeting as well as attendance from the magnetosphere, ionosphere and solar-terrestrial physics community. Conference tracks ranged from discussion of the molecular universe to cosmic chronometers, and from spectroscopic cosmology to industrial applications of astrophysics and astronomy.

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