NETCU: analising e-Learning neworked curricula in Europe: the importance of legal and quality assurance aspects

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Pro…ting from Innovation: Firm Level Evidence on Markups

Abstract While innovation is argued to create value, private incentives of …rms to innovate are driven by what part of the value created …rms can appropriate. In this paper we explore the relation between innovation and the markups a …rm is able to extract after innovating. We estimate …rm-speci…c price-cost margins from production data and …nd that both product and process innovations are positively related to these markups. Product innovations increase markups on average by 5.1% points by shifting out demand and increasing prices. Process innovation increases markups by 3.8% points due to incomplete pass-through of the cost reductions associated with process innovation. The ability of the …rm to appropriate returns from innovation through higher markups is a¤ected by the actual type of product and process innovation, the …rm's patenting and promotion behavior, the age of the …rm and the competition it faces. Moreover, we show that sustained product innovation has a cumulative e¤ect on the …rm's markup

Final

The present report reviews the fundamental right to privacy and data protection which shall be assured to individuals and the Directive 95/46/EC which provides more detailed rules on how to establish protection in the case of biometric data processing. The present framework does not seem apt to cope with all issues and problems raised by biometric applications. The limited recent case law of the European Court of Human Rights and the Court of Justice sheds some light on some relevant issues, but does not answer all questions. The report provides an analysis of the use of biometric data and the applicable current legal framework in six countries. The research demonstrates that in various countries, position is taken against the central storage of biometric data because of the various additional risks such storage entails. Furthermore, some countries stress the risks of the use of biometric characteristics which leave traces (such as e.g., fingerprint, face, voice…). In general, controllers of biometric applications receive limited clear guidance as to how implement biometric applications. Because of conflicting approaches, general recommendations are made in this report with regard to the regulation of central storage of biometric data and various other aspects, including the need for transparency of biometric systems

NETCU: analising e-Leratning neworked curricula in Europe: the importance of legal and quality assurance aspects

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Massless versus Kaluza-Klein gravitons at the LHC

We show that the LHC will be able to differentiate between a four-dimensional model with quantum gravity at {approx} 1 TeV where the (massless) graviton becomes strongly coupled to standard model particles at 1 TeV and brane world type models with a large extra-dimensional volume and massive Kaluza-Klein gravitons. We estimate that the 14 TeV LHC could put a limit of the order of {approx} 5 TeV on the four dimensional Planck mass in a model independent way

Physics of String Flux Compactifications

We provide a qualitative review of flux compactifications of string theory, focusing on broad physical implications and statistical methods of analysis