How is the economic crisis affecting the European Union? This map shows the figures for all the member states by year and quarter and let’s you compare budget deficit, unemployment rate, national debt and economic contraction: MAP by NRC International
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A discussion with Milton Tan, Director DesignSingapore: BusinessWeek
Each year, MIT’s Technology Review magazine chooses 10 emerging technologies with the potential to change lives around the world. Some of this year’s choices, such as paper-based medical tests and intelligent software that acts as a personal assistant, could reach the market within a year. Others, like biological machines and nanopiezotronics,
Choosing the right path to success is one of the most important decisions urban leaders will make. City Success report, published by CEOs for Cities, is a comprehensive review of the principal theories of urban success divided into three categories: Theories of Firms, Theories of People and Theories of Place.
The recent book of Ikujiro Nonaka, Florian Kohlbacher, Toru Hirata, and Ryoko Toyama (Palgrave 2008) expands the theory of the knowledge creating company (Nonaka, I., and Tacheuchi, H. (1995), The Knowledge Creating Company, Oxford University Press), covering six essential building blocks of knowledge creation within companies,