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On the relationship between regulation, technological change and competitiveness

Posted on August 21, 2013 by

Translation of my presentation in the 38th Ilmansuojelupäivät in Lappeenranta, Finland, 20.8.2013 If we deconstruct the topic of the panel, “is environmental protection a threat or an opportunity to a country’s competitiveness,” sooner or later we will end up considering … Continue reading →

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(Descriptive) theories of change

Posted on April 27, 2011 by

Van de Ven and Poole (1995) group the main theories of change to four groups: Life cycle Teleology Dialectics Evolution The most interesting of these is #4, evolution. Viewed correctly, it actually encompasses all the others. Other ways of describing … Continue reading →

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