D6.18 Communication and Dissemination Plan M13-M24 : project PRoPART
This project has received funding from the European GNSS Agency under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 776307".
This project has received funding from the European GNSS Agency under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 776307".
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Utilization of the material-specific peptide–substrate interactions of M13 virus broadens colloidal stability window of graphene. The homogeneous distribution of graphene is maintained in weak acids and increased ionic strengths by complexing with virus. This graphene/virus conducting template is utilized in the synthesis of energy-storage materials to increase the conductivity of the composite electrode. Successful formation of the hybrid biological template is demonstrated by the mineralization of bismuth oxyfluoride as a cathode material for lithium-ion batteries, with increased loading and improved electronic conductivity. ; National Institute for International Education (Korea) (Korean Government Scholarship Program) ; United States. Army Research Office (Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies (ICB)) ; National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers program)
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In: Voorstudies en achtergronden mediabeleid M13
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In: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uva.x004788943
Includes index. ; "October 1973." ; Shipping list no.: 89-707-P. ; "Reprint which includes current pages from changes 1 and 2." ; Cover title. ; Includes bibliographical references (p. A-1 - A-2). ; Mode of access: Internet. ; 14
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American philosopher John Dewey spent more than two years in China (191 During and after his visit, he wrote some fairly perceptive and insightful comme on China. These were published in periodicals such as the New Republic, As the China Review, and sometimes in newspapers such as the Baltimore Sun ever, there is hardly any discussion of Chinese philosophy in Dewey's publ works or even his papers and correspondence. Among his rare mentions of C philosophy was an article published in 1922, "As the Chinese Think," w cussed the teachings of Lao Zi and Confucius (M13:217-27).1 This was an att improve Western (or at least American) understanding of Chinese attitude tions in international negotiations and business. It describes the influence of cianism and Daoism as merging "to create a definite contempt for politics aversion to government as the West understands the term" (M13:225). It goe describe the Chinese polity in these words
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Dieses Policy Paper zeigt die Entwicklung von Gründungen und Start-ups in Deutschland auf und stellt nach einem Blick auf die internationalen Venture-Capital-Märkte den Zukunftsfonds vor, mit dem die Bundesre-gierung die Start-up-Finanzierung auf eine neue Grundlage stellen möchte. Während die Anzahl der Grün-dungen in Deutschland seit Jahren rückläufig ist, hat sich in den Metropolregionen mit Berlin an der Spitze eine wachsende Start-up-Szene aus innovativen Gründungen und jungen Unternehmen etabliert. Dochdie Finanzierung von Start-ups stellt trotz diverser Programme zur Förderung von Wagniskapital noch immer eine Hürde dar; in den USA oder dem Vereinigten Königreich lassen sich Investitionen in Start-ups leichter realisieren als in Deutschland. Ein besonders Problem hierzulande ist die Finanzierung größerer Wachstums-schritte in den Jahren nach der Gründungsphase, da Start-ups in dieser 'Later-Stage'-Phase oft einen höhe-ren Kapitalbedarf aufweisen. Die Förderprogramme und inländischen Venture-Capital-Fonds sind jedoch meist auf die Vorgründungs-und unmittelbare Gründungsphase zugeschnitten. Die Politik hat dieses Prob-lem erkannt und adressiert es mit einem 'Zukunftsfonds', der innerhalb von zehn Jahren 10 Milliarden Euro öffentliche Mittel über diverse Einzelfonds bereitstellt. Durch die Mobilisierung und Einbeziehung privaten Kapitals soll das verfügbare Gesamtvolumen auf 30 Milliarden Euro angehoben werden; diese Mittel sollen durch die Konstruktion der Einzelfonds gerade auch größere Later-Stage-Finanzierungen ermöglichen. Ein weiteres Ziel ist die Langfristfinanzierung kapitalintensiver Hochtechnologie-Vorhaben, für die es bislang keine geeignete Fördermöglichkeit gab. Das Policy Paper schließt mit einer überwiegend positiven Bewertung des neuen Förderprogramms, das die neue Bundesregierung aus SPD, Grünen und FDP nach bisherigen Aus-sagen fortführen möchte, und weiterführenden Vorschlägen zur Stärkung des Gründungsstandorts, die steu-erliche und regulatorische Fragen betreffen. ; This policy paper shows the development of foundations of new companies and start-ups in Germany and, after a look at the international venture capital markets, presents the Future Fund, with which the German government wants to put start-up financing on a new footing. Start-ups have an important function in a functioning market economy, bringingnew ideas and products to the market and providingcompetition by attacking the market position of established companies.While the number of company formationsin Ger-many has been declining for years, a growing start-up scene of innovative and growth-oriented start-ups and young companies has established itself in the German metropolitan regions with Berlin at the forefront.How-ever, despite various government programs to provide venture capital, financing start-ups still proves diffi-cult.A particular problem is the financing of larger growth steps in the years after the company's founding phase, as start-ups often have higher capital requirements in this later-stage phase.But publicfunding pro-grams and domestic venture capital fundsare mostly tailored to the pre-founding and immediate start-up phase. Politicians have recognized this problem and are currently addressing it with a 'Future Fund'(Zukun-ftsfonds) comprising 10 billion euros in public funding over ten years via ten different fund components.By mobilizing additionalprivate capital, the total volume available is to be increased to 30 billion euros, which will also be available for larger later-stage financing thanks to the structure of the individual funds.The paper concludes with apredominantlypositive assessment of the new funding program and further suggestions for strengthening the startup location addressingtaxationand regulatory issues.
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Chinese companies sometimes appoint a government official (bureaucrat) as CEO on the expectation of benefiting from the political connections of the new hire. Based on a sample of 2,454 CEO transitions our empirical findings are consistent with the implications of a simple contract model in oligopolistic markets. Firms that appoint a bureaucrat as CEO obtain more credit and subsidies. They have positive abnormal announcement returns, negative abnormal long-run returns and larger variance of long-run returns. Furthermore, they experience a deterioration in operating performances, increased rent-seeking behavior of the management and weakening of corporate governance. The results from the split share structure reform in 2005 corroborate the supportive findings for the preferential treatment hypothesis.
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According to Steve Blank, a startup is a temporary organization that is looking for a profitable, scalable, and repeatable business model. The aim of this article is to compare the startup environments in Poland and other European Union countries, in particular the functioning of accelerators and incubators. The study is based on analysing the sources of acceleration programs and methods of supporting young companies. It turns out that since 2007, the economies of European countries and the US have been feeling the growth of small enterprises that are innovative, and their products are often revolutionizing global markets. Many startups also end up in bankruptcy, but this does not discourage entrepreneurs from creating more and more new teams work on new innovative technologies. One of the biggest problems for start-up companies is finding financing. Hence the interest in the acceleration programs, thanks to which companies gain financing and, above all, mentoring and contact with investors and customers. The effects of cooperation between accelerators and young companies can also be seen on the Polish market. In the last two years new government projects have been created and directed by large corporations, which are supporting the ideas of young people and encourage the development of startups.
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According to Steve Blank, a startup is a temporary organization that is looking for a profitable, scalable, and repeatable business model. The aim of this article is to compare the startup environments in Poland and other European Union countries, in particular the functioning of accelerators and incubators. The study is based on analysing the sources of acceleration programs and methods of supporting young companies. It turns out that since 2007, the economies of European countries and the US have been feeling the growth of small enterprises that are innovative, and their products are often revolutionizing global markets. Many startups also end up in bankruptcy, but this does not discourage entrepreneurs from creating more and more new teams work on new innovative technologies. One of the biggest problems for start-up companies is finding financing. Hence the interest in the acceleration programs, thanks to which companies gain financing and, above all, mentoring and contact with investors and customers. The effects of cooperation between accelerators and young companies can also be seen on the Polish market. In the last two years new government projects have been created and directed by large corporations, which are supporting the ideas of young people and encourage the development of startups.
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This document presents the events attended and planned by the NEWSERA consortium to promote, disseminate and actively engage the project with different audiences during its first year of activity (until M13). This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 873125 ; WP6: Dissemination and Communication Actions - D6.5 Events 2
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Innovative Start-ups sind aus mehreren Gründen durch ein hohes Risiko gekennzeichnet. Venture Capital (VC) ermöglicht es Start-ups, ihre Ideen zu Innovationen zu entwickeln und senkt das Risiko des Scheiterns. Diese Form der Finanzierung ist ein wesentlicher Bestandteil im globalen Wettbewerb. Der deutsche VC-Markt weist zumindest in der Spätphase der Unterstützung von Start-ups Mängel auf. Gegenüber den USA und China besteht ein erheblicher Aufholbedarf. ; Innovative start-ups are characterised by a high level of risk for several reasons. Venture capital (VC) enables start-ups to develop their ideas into innovations and lowers the risk of failure. This form of financing is an essential component in the global competition. This paper aims at examining the German VC market with regard to its investments and framework conditions. The framework conditions that influence VC transactions are, on one end of the spectrum, the political and regulatory environment and, on the other, the innovation climate such as societal attitudes towards entrepreneurial and opportunity risk. The paper concludes with some important policy implications.
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DNA replication of ϕ29 and related phages takes place via a strand displacement mechanism, a process that generates large amounts of single-stranded DNA (ssDNA). Consequently, phage-encoded ssDNA-binding proteins (SSBs) are essential proteins during phage ϕ29-like DNA replication. In the present work we analyze the helix-destabilizing activity of the SSBs of ϕ29 and the related phages Nf and GA-1, their ability to eliminate non-productive binding of ϕ29 DNA polymerase to ssDNA and their stimulatory effect on replication by ϕ29 DNA polymerase in primed M13 ssDNA replication, a situation that resembles type II replicative intermediates that occur during ϕ29-like DNA replication. Significant differences have been appreciated in the functional behavior of the three SSBs. First, the GA-1 SSB is able to display helix-destabilizing activity and to stimulate dNTP incorporation by ϕ29 DNA polymerase in the M13 DNA replication assay, even at SSB concentrations at which the ϕ29 and Nf SSBs do not show any effect. On the other hand, the ϕ29 SSB is the only one of the three SSBs able to increase the replication rate of ϕ29 DNA polymerase in primed M13 ssDNA replication. From the fact that the ϕ29 SSB, but not the Nf SSB, stimulates the replication rate of Nf DNA polymerase we conclude that the different behaviors of the SSBs on stimulation of the replication rate of ϕ29 and Nf DNA polymerases is most likely due to formation of different nucleoprotein complexes of the SSBs with the ssDNA rather than to a specific interaction between the SSB and the corresponding DNA polymerase. A model that correlates the thermodynamic parameters that define SSB–ssDNA nucleoprotein complex formation with the functional stimulatory effect of the SSB on ϕ29-like DNA replication has been proposed. ; This investigation was aided by research grant 2RO1 GM27242-20 from the National Institutes of Health, by grant PB93-0173 from the Dirección General de Investigación Científica y Técnica, by grant ERBFMRX CT970115 from the European Union and by an institutional grant from the Fundación Ramón Areces. I.G. was holder of a pre-doctoral fellowship from the Fundación Ramón Areces. ; Peer reviewed
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The European Commission has adopted an Entrepreneurship 2020 Action Plan as its answer to challenges brought by the gravest economic crisis in the last 50 years. Governments of European countries all habour high expectations that entrepreneurship will contribute towards ending the continent's economic malaise. In this article I argue that these expectations may be disappointed because (i) entrepreneurship promotion is a last-resort policy, (ii) entrepreneurs are being overestimated, and (iii) entrepreneurs are too often allowed to capture policy. These reasons are indicative that that in addition to its euro and refugee crises, Europe is suffering from an entrepreneurship crisis. Entrepreneurs are increasingly older and are faring less well in terms of earnings compared to wage earners. Small businesses are not creating sufficient jobs, they are not raising labour productivity, and immigrant-entrepreneurs are not productively assimilated. Big businesses are largely a legacy of the past, and resorting more and more to lobbying. When they innovate it is often to replace labour. Hence, given that Europe faces rising unemployment, growing numbers of unassimilated migrants, and more pensioners - and all in the face of stagnating productivity growth - the conclusion is that entrepreneurs have failed to reduce the dependency burden on those who do work. This puts immense strain on European public finances that are already fragile after the financial crisis. Demographic changes and institutional shortcomings are thus at the core of the entrepreneurship crisis in Europe.
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