The Eco-Business Market Advantage
By Peter Dauvergne & Jane Lister
“When sustainability burst onto the scene it was in the responsibility category, something that a company should do because...
Putting Research into Use (RIU): Technology Development for the Poor Farmer in Low Income...
By Norman Clark
The Research Into Use programme aims to help agricultural research projects put its existing stock of knowledge into practical use rather than...
Regional Innovation: How To Be Smart, Sustainable and Robust
By Michele Mastroeni, Joyce Tait& Alessandro Rosiello
The encouragement of innovation has been pursued by many different governments and levels of government, as innovation is...
Confronting the New Reality: Globalisation, the Global Financial Crisis and the State
By John Farrar &David Mayes
Globalisation and the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) have presented major challenges to orthodoxy. John Farrar and David Mayes discuss the...
The Role of Urban Spaces in the Creation of Value
By Martha Schwartz
Martha Schwartz, a professor at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, discusses how urban landscape design plays an important role in the creation...
How the Great Moderation Became a (Contained) Depression and What to Do About It
By Barry Z. Cynamon, Steven M. Fazzari & Mark Setterfield
The Great Recession was deep and the subsequent recovery has been slower than most economists...
A Tale of Two Games: Global Strategies of Multinational Companies in China’s E-commerce Market
By Xin Wang & Justin Ren
Why has there been hardly any successful entry into China’s e-commerce market by western firms? From consumer-to-consumer markets to...
Law and the Technologies of the Twenty-First Century
By Roger Brownsword & Morag Goodwin
The authors of Law and the Technologies of the Twenty-First Century (Cambridge University Press, 2012) examine both the challenges...
Oil For Food: Big Business in The Middle East
By Eckart Woertz
Middle Eastern countries are highly dependent on food imports. They have reacted to the global food crisis of 2008 with various measures...
Transport And The Environment in Asian Megacities
By Shinya Hanaoka
This article has addressed two environmental problems whose origins lie in the transport sector: local air pollution and CO2 emissions. Globally, the...
EDITOR'S PICK OF THE WEEK
China’s Challenging Search for a New Model of Economic Growth
By Danny Leipziger
China cannot continue to rely on exports to drive its growth, but what are the alternatives?
China ran a $1.2 trillion trade surplus last year, and despite admonitions from the IMF to rely...
