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Entre las luces y las sombras que proyecta el desempeño de la región, la actividad de innovación de empresarios emprendedores aún es insuficiente y, además, es débil su penetración en los mercados innovadores y dinamicos de exportacion. Los propositos que animan a esta obra serian: conocer las posibilidades de convergencia de nuestros paises con otros en la innovacion y el desempeño economico, estimar la eficiencia relativa de los SNI, analizar y evaluar los vinculos entre innovacion y productividad laboral, estudiar la penetracion de las nuevas tecnologias de las TICS y la capacidad de absorcion de las firmas, analizar el papel del gobierno en el fomento del uso del Big Data entre PYMES, asi como explorar las oportunidades de las patentes universitarias y la transferencia tecnologica.

In January 2015, Yanis Varoufakis, an economics professor teaching in Austin, Texas, was elected to the Greek parliament with more votes than any other member of parliament. He was appointed finance minister and, in the whirlwind five months that followed, everything he had warned about--the perils of the euro's faulty design, the European Union's shortsighted austerity policies, financialized crony capitalism, American complicity and rising authoritarianism--was confirmed as the "troika" (the European Central Bank, International Monetary Fund, and European Commission) stonewalled his efforts to resolve Greece's economic crisis.Here, Varoufakis delivers a fresh look at the history of Europe's crisis and America's central role in it. He presents the ultimate case against austerity, proposing concrete policies for Europe that are necessary to address its crisis and avert contagion to America, China, and the rest of the world. With passionate, informative, and at times humorous prose, he warns that the implosion of an admittedly crisis-ridden and deeply irrational European monetary union should, and can, be avoided at all cost.

POD - LA UNION EUROPEA: PASADO, PRESENTE Y FUTURO.

Sovereign debt is a complex and highly topical area of law and this work represents a new main reference book on the subject bringing together contributions from world leading practitioners, scholars and regulators. Divided into five parts the book opens with a part on restructuring which analyses contractual provisions and the role of institutions such as the International Monetary Fund. The second part, on enforcement, considers the position of a sovereign as a defendant analyzing the availability of special immunities and matters of defense and arbitration pertinent to sovereign debt. Part three of the book is concerned with complicating factors such as economic, political or banking crises and how these relate and complicate the task of addressing an unsustainable sovereign debt stock. In this section the particular and topical issues concerned with restructuring in a monetary union are explained. The fourth part provides economists' explanations of why and how sovereigns borrow and the causes of a sovereign debt, which enriches understanding by providing context to the purely legal aspects of the work. The book closes with a section which covers proposed reform to sovereign debt systems. Dedicated to the leading expert Lee Buchheit, this work contains comprehensive and rigorous analysis on sovereign debt management which no specialist should be without

POD COLOMBIA: UN PAIS EN TRANSFORMACION ACELERADA

El año 2014, el 88,3% de las empresas catalanas eran familiares. Eran empresas con vocación internacional, que en el año 2016 contribuyeron a un récord catalán, en cuanto a exportaciones, superior a los 65.000 millones de euros. Tienen un crecimiento de un 2% anual, por delante del 0,7% de la media de la UE, con mas de 16.500 empresas que los ultimos cuatro años han exportado regularmente. Pero la empresa catalana no se ha limitado a exportar sus productos, sino que ha querido instalarse en todo el mundo, por lo que en el año 2014 contaba con mas de 8.300 filiales.

¿Es la deuda un sistema de control contemporáneo? Siguiendo meticulosamente el hilo conductor de las deudas públicas, Éric Toussaint nos ofrece una nueva perspectiva de la agitada historia de las naciones y de sus numerosas interacciones, desvelando, al mismo tiempo, la logica subyacente de esas relaciones. Desde America Latina hasta China, pasando por Grecia, Tunez y Egipto, la deuda fue utilizada como un arma de dominacion y expolio. El recurso al endeudamiento exterior y la adopcion del libre comercio constituyeron, a partir del siglo XIX, un factor fundamental de la puesta bajo tutela de las economias de muchos paises. La Grecia de los años 2000 muestra, una vez mas, como un pais y un pueblo se ven privados de libertad bajo el pretexto del pago de una deuda ilegitima.

Relations between employers, trade unions, and employees in Europe are rapidly changing. New competitive demands for organizations, the globalization process and economic turbulence, new technologies and growing diversity in work forces are leading to new organizational conflicts in which Employee Representatives (ERs) play a central role. ERs are confronted with new challenges. The European Commission and the Spanish Government value innovative social dialogue and the role of the ERs, therefore stimulated this project to empower ERs in Europe. How should the ERs be empowered to negotiate flexible, fair and innovative labour relations? This was the central question addressed in the study carried out by the New European Industrial Relations (NEIRE) network, in which researchers from eight European countries conducted three different field studies (questionnaires, interviews and panels) with ERs and other field expert. The participant countries represent different industrial relations traditions in Europe. These countries are: Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom. Based on these studies, a Best Practices Program (BPP) for empowering ERs is presented in this book. The BPP involves ten steps: Flexibility: a Dragon with Multiple Heads Employability: the Art of Being Capable Corporate Social Responsibility: Not Only a Fashion Trend Participation and Dialogue: Engagement in a Context of Change Trust: As Essential as Breathing Managing Conflicts: Blending Competition and Cooperation Critical Competencies for an Innovative Union Attraction and Commitment: Understanding ERs Individual Perceptions and Differences Role Conflict and Stress: Juggling Hats Empowering Employee Representatives: We can Make the Difference Here!.