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Crossing borders; when science meets industry
Economic growth is ultimately driven by advances in productivity. In turn, productivity growth is driven by R&D and by utilisation of the public knowledge pool. This public knowledge pool is generated by universities and public research institutions. Underutilisation by firms of results from public research can deter economic growth, and the question then emerges how to bring science to the market. In this report we explore whether in Europe public knowledge is underutilised by firms, and investigate the quantitative importance of various knowledge transmission channels (such as publications, informal contacts, consulting). Next we study characteristics of universities and firms that may prevent an effective knowledge transfer. Finally we look at a number of policy initiatives designed to foster science-to-industry knowledge spillovers in the Netherlands and a selection of other countries.
Transnational encounters : crossing borders in Galician translation and interpreting studies
Exploring the ways in which languages and cultures interact across
borders becomes particularly relevant in our increasingly interconnected
world, as it ultimately enables an in depth understanding of how societies influence each other. Translation and interpreting, as mediating forces in transnational encounters, offer critical insights into this continuous crosscultural dialogue and negotiation. Of special interest for the Galician context, research into translation and interpreting âespecially after the so-called cultural turn in the disciplineâ has often exposed asymmetrical power relations between languages and cultures and put forward alternatives to challenge them. Indeed, this has been one of the recurrent tropes in Galician Translation and Interpreting Studies scholarship since the 1990s
Crossing the borders of governance
La gobernanza es presentada por ĂĄreas confusas e indefinidas que tienden a expandirse de una manera mĂĄs o menos arbitraria en ausencia de estĂĄndares normativos estables y confiables. Todo esto pone en cuestiĂłn conceptos y categorĂas monolĂticas recompositivas de moderna racionalidad polĂtica-legal y en primer lugar de la soberanĂa. Al mismo tiempo, la estructura neogubernamental actual no se sostiene como una tecnologĂa de poder excluyente o alternativa a otras racionalidades, sino que tiende a llevar a cabo todas las contradicciones y ambigĂŒedades del tiempo presente.Governance is presented by undefined and confused areas that tend to expand in a more or less arbitrary way in the absence of stable and reliable normative standards. All this calls into question concepts and recompositive monolithic categories of modern political-legal rationality and in the first place sovereignty. At the same time the current neo-governmental structure does not stand as a technology of power, exclusionary or alternative to other rationalities, but rather it tends to bring out all the contradictions and ambiguities of the present time
Crossing Borders
The United State Supreme Court declared the right to marry for LGBT people under âequal dignity in the eyes of the law,â on June 26th, 2015. The front pages of virtually every newspaper that day highlighted that proclamation. Exactly a week prior, another United States federal agency made an official declaration that didnât make the front pages but also affected LGBTQ politics. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) issued a Transgender Care Memorandum, detailing policies for treatment trans migrants in detention facilities. The facilities have a noted history of mistreatment of transgender detainees.
Ishalaa Ortega is a transgender woman who lives in Queens, New York. She was a leading transgender activist in her native Tijuana, Mexico. She led local LGBTQ rights organizations in protests against an anti-LGBTQ gubernatorial candidate.
Following the uptick of public presence, Ortega began receiving death threats, which prompted her decision to come to the United States in July 2013.
When she presented herself to the border, Ortega was admitted into a detention center before being released on bond. In 2016, Immigration Equality fought her deportation and won the case. Through Ortegaâs perspective, I will follow the broader processes of the asylum seeking process for a trans person facing violence in her home country juxtaposed with those who still face violence, with the memorandum that was allegedly meant to end these problems and insight from experts on the abuse of trans women in Mexico and in the United States Immigration system
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