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Knowledge marketing and development in the new knowledge-based economy
No full textThe purpose of this paper is to analyze and describe the relation between knowledge and development in the new knowledge-based economy and to deduct the socio-economic basics of the public marketing strategies in this context. The particularity of this approach is due to the features of knowledge, seen as production factor, mixed public good or global public good, as well as their developments in the context of relationships between university and industry, the new role of public sector research or the new theory of endogenous growth. The economic and social logic of this paper includes marketing among the tools to promote knowledgebased technology progress, imposing even juxtaposition between private or public marketing strategies. The knowledge market develops in specific directions that are compatible and integrated in the development strategies of contemporary economies. Given this context, the quantitative analysis models are inspired by more general or even classical economic models that integrate technical progress, human capital or knowledge status. The main topics discussed in this paper relate to: knowledge and arguments for knowledge marketing development, knowledge and knowledge market as objects of public marketing in contemporary economy, development models that incorporate the impact of knowledge marketing strategies and relevant empirical analysis in the context of the Romanian economy development. The growth methods are based on relevant bibliographic analysis, quantitative models and statistical evaluations, systemic analyses and summaries.knowledge, knowledge market, global public goods
National and European Values of Public Administration in the Balkans
No full textThe current volume represents the outcome of the international conference “National and European Values of Public Administration in the Balkans”, organised in Bucharest on 15 – 16 July 2011.
The conference has been organised by Jean Monnet research network dedicated to “South-Eastern European developments on the administrative convergence and enlargement of the
European Administrative Space in Balkan states”, representing the third edition of the events
organised under the above aegis.
The research network, comprising the National School of Political Studies and Public
Administration (NSPSPA), Bucharest, Romania, University of the Aegean, Mytilene, Greece,
New Bulgarian University, Sofia, Bulgaria, University of Rijeka, Croatia and the European
Public Law Organization (EPLO) with headquarters in Athens, Greece has developed and
continues to develop studies and researches specific for the development of public
administration in the Balkan states.
The keynote speakers of the conference included Mw. Dr. Helena Raulus, EU Law Docent,
Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid , Erasmus Universiteit, Netherlands, Prof. Dr. Spyridon
Flogaitis, Director, President of the BoD, European Public Law Organization, Greece and
Prof. Dr. Lucica Matei, Dean, Faculty of Public Administration, National School of Political
Studies and Public Administration, Romania.
The contents of the papers presented have been focused on the following topics:
EU normative support for sustaining the process of administrative convergence
European Administrative Space principles – pillars for the mechanisms of evaluation
of public administration reforms
Balkan priorities for European Administrative Space enlargement
Other two sub adjacent topics have been added, aiming especially the doctoral students,
emphasising the following themes:
The process of administrative convergence at EU level
Efficiency, effectiveness and responsibility in the European Administrative Space
European Administrative Space. Priorities of the future.
For the international conference, 88 abstracts were received, of which due to the first selection
achieved by the Conference Scientific Committee, 56 papers were accepted.
After presentation, the papers have been improved and subjected to double review, so that
there were accepted for publication 36 papers, having 46 authors from nine countries:
Romania, Greece, Bulgaria, Netherlands, Albania, France, Croatia, Italy and USA and two
European organisations: EPLO and EIPA.
The general conclusion expected for the final of our conference could refer to the existence of
a Balkan Administrative Space as part of the European Administrative Space.
Even if the area of the Balkan Administrative Space is confined, we have to highlight the
unity in diversity as a fundamental feature.
The unity derives from the ideals of European integration of the Balkan states and the
diversity derives from the national histories, cultural diversity and their national identity.
The connections of the Balkan Administrative Space become day by day more powerful
related to the European Administrative Space.
They are determined by the development of the processes of convergence and administrative
dynamics as well as by the internal developments induced by the administrative reforms in the
mentioned states.
In this context, we could assert that by means of the research proposed and achieved, our
project has open new agendas of research, that partially have been expressed in our research
reports, publications etc.
At the same time, as remarked from the contents of this conference, the national and European
values of the Balkan Administrative Space are substantiated on the regulatory framework of
the European Union, the processes of convergence and administrative dynamics, as well as on
the principles of the European Administrative Space.
In fact, as it is well known, the latter becomes a non-formalised acquis of the European Public
Administration, representing a standard for assessing the progress in the reforms of the
national public administrations.
Our conference has taken place under the auspices of this generous perspective.
I would like to express my kind thanks to everyone for your contribution to conceiving,
organising and delivering this scientific event
F. Kämpfer. Das russische Herrscherbild von den Anfängen bis zu Peter dem Grossen. Studien zur Entwicklung politischer Ikonographie im byzantinischer Kulturkreis
No full textCazacu Matei. F. Kämpfer. Das russische Herrscherbild von den Anfängen bis zu Peter dem Grossen. Studien zur Entwicklung politischer Ikonographie im byzantinischer Kulturkreis. In: Revue de l'histoire des religions, tome 201, n°2, 1984. pp. 215-216
Manipulating flora: Seventeenth-century botanical practices and natural philosophy. Introduction
No full textThe study of plants and vegetal bodies has always played an essential role in
the knowledge of nature for both theoretical and practical purposes. Since the
Middle Ages, the practical perspective had prevailed, as the study of vegetation
lacked disciplinary autonomy and was primarily an aspect of medical training.
Plants were mainly subject to medicinal or pharmacological uses, although a
great variety of topics, such as the naturalistic study of plants, the building of
gardens, or the symbolical approach to flora, reflected a more comprehensive
attention to the vegetal world.1 Scholars interested in plants generally worked
with Dioscorides’ Materia medica, Galen’s De simplicium medicamentorum
temperamentis ac facultatibus, and Pliny’s Naturalis historia, and learned the
uses and properties of medicinal herbs. When Theophrastus’ De causis plantarum,
which contained a more theoretical interpretation of plants, was rediscovered
and brought back to Europe from Constantinople, this work attracted less attention than materia medica, and this testified to the medical predilection
for the study of plants
Optimal sample coordination using controlled selection
No full textSample coordination maximizes or minimizes the overlap of samples selected from overlapping populations. We propose a coordination method for the case where units are to be selected with maximum overlap using two designs with given unit inclusion probabilities. Our method is based on some theoretical conditions on the joint selection probability of two samples and on the application of a controlled selection method, implemented with linear programming.<br/
Letter to the Editor; Re : Wirth MP, Weissbach L, Marx F-J, Heckl W, Jellinghaus W, Riedmiller H, Noack B, Hinke A, Froehner M. Prospective randomized trial comparing flutamide as adjuvant treatment versus observation after radical prostatectomy for locally advanced, lymph node-negative prostate cancer. Eur Urol 2004;45:267-70
No full textAdministrative reforms in South Eastern European states. Comparative study in view of enlarging the European Administrative Space. 2010 Sino-US International Conference on Public Administration (5th), June 14-17, 2010, Xiamen City, P.R. China
No full textThe accession and enlargement of the European integration process have determined, especially in the last decade, profound reforms aimed at changing the national public administrations in consensus with the developments of the administrations in the European Union Member States. Framed in a more general international context defined by the public management reforms, even in developed countries, such as those of OECD, the administrative reforms in South-Eastern European states had recorded different dynamics, and the processes of administrative convergence have been marked by a broad diversity. In this context, the paper aims to achieve a comparative study concerning the general, strategic and operational framework of the reforms in states revealing different hypostases within the process of accession into the European Union. The target group of the analysis will comprise Balkan states (Romania, Bulgaria, Greece or Turkey), Western Balkan states (Croatia, Macedonia, Slovenia or Montenegro) or states belonging to the former soviet block (Moldova, Ukraine or Belarus). Lacking an European model of public administration, the comparative study will use as comparison criteria, the principles of the European Administrative Space concerning administration by law, predictability of the public managerial processes, decisional transparency, efficiency and effectiveness. Criteria of administrative rationalization derived from public management reforms will be added. Therefore, the paper will be structured on several chapters, as follows: -Overview concerning the institutional framework of the administrative reforms; -Comparative analyses taking into consideration the above mentioned criteria; - Conclusions. The research methods refer to documentary and bibliographical analysis, and comparative systemic analysi
European Administration. Normative Fundaments and Systemic Models
No full textMaking use of the relevant literature in the area, this paper proposes a systemic approach to the European administration. The difficulty of the research design stems from the inconsistency of the regulations European treaties exhibit, as well as from the sectorial approaches, mostly of legal nature, on the conceptualization of the EU administration. To this we add the complexity of the analyzed process which, under the conditions set by the EU enlargement tends to overcome, both in sphere and content, many of the administrations of the federal states or international organizations. The systemic model we propose is a complex system, of a mixed architecture. It is there that the self-regulatory processes have a unique specificity and make use of both a legal foundation and of complementary processes such are those of Europeanization, convergence and administrative dynami
European Administration. Normative Fundaments and Systemic Models
No full textMaking use of the relevant literature in the area, this paper proposes a systemic approach to the European administration. The difficulty of the research design stems from the inconsistency of the regulations European treaties exhibit, as well as from the sectorial approaches, mostly of legal nature, on the conceptualization of the EU administration. To this we add the complexity of the analyzed process which, under the conditions set by the EU enlargement tends to overcome, both in sphere and content, many of the administrations of the federal states or international organizations. The systemic model we propose is a complex system, of a mixed architecture. It is there that the self-regulatory processes have a unique specificity and make use of both a legal foundation and of complementary processes such are those of Europeanization, convergence and administrative dynamicEuropean administration, European Administrative Space, Cybernetic system, Europeanization, Convergence, Administrative dynamics.
The Internalization of the European Administrative Space - principles in national public administrations. Study Case: Romania
No full textAmong different sociological concepts and theories applicable to the study of the process of Europeanization of public administration, internalization is but seldom to be encountered. The internalization of the principles of the European Administrative Space (EAS) in the national public administrations appears as both a learning process, as well as a process of organizational change, a consequence of the interaction between individual learning, civil servants and public employees, and organizational learning, at the level of public institutions and authorities. The mechanisms that favor internalization are multiple, and are extracted from the complexity of the activities implied by the European integration; without it, one could not differentiate between the amounts of information available. The authors of the present report chose to make an assessment based on empirical researches, and an interpretation in accordance to the statistical instruments employed. This report is structured in three chapters regarding the European Union and the process of Europeanization, EAS in the context of Europeanization, as well as the internalization of the EAS principles in Romania. The empirical and statistical approach represents the largest part of the report, offering significant details for which those interested may constitute the premises for further developments. Actually, the formulated conclusions may be even more deepened and associated with action plans to determine a further internalization of the EAS principles
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