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Die dreigliedrige Agentur der Europäischen Union Eurofound unterstützt die Entwicklung besserer sozial-, beschäftigungs- und arbeitsmarktpolitischer Maßnahmen durch die Bereitstellung von Wissen
Eurofound publishes its work in a range of publication formats to match audience needs and the nature of the output. These include flagship reports on a particular area of activity, research reports summarising the findings of a research project and policy briefs presenting policy pointers from
research projects or facts and figures relevant to policy debates. Also included are blog articles, regular articleson working life in Europe, presentations, working papers providing background material to ongoing or already concluded research, and reports arising from ad hoc requests by policymakers. Other corporate publications include annual reports, brochures and promotional publications. Web databases and online resources such as data visualisation applications are available in Data and resources.
/Sector Futures provides specialised reports based on the monitoring of
existing foresight studies, scenario work, innovation studies and reliable
data sources. December 2005 features the complete Sector Futures article
series on the hotels and catering sector. It sets out by defining the sector,
outlining its market size, structure and employment figures, and looks at the
trends and drivers shaping the sector. Subsequent articles assess the impact
and review some scenario work relating to the sector’s future before
concluding with an analysis of major policy issues and challenges facing the
industry./
/Construction is one of Europe’s biggest industries, including the
building, civil engineering, demolition and maintenance industries. The
sector has an annual turnover in excess of €900 billion and more than 12
million employees in the EU15 alone. This EMCC dossier provides an in-depth
analysis of the trends and forces driving change in the sector, using a
compilation of relevant reports, company case studies and scenarios to give a
comprehensive insight into a sector facing important challenges today./
/This article builds on the first article’s discussion on the rise of the
knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) sector, the reasons for its
growth and the nature of the contemporary landscape of KIBS. It reviews a
limited number of earlier studies that have attempted to identify drivers of
quantitative and qualitative change in KIBS, and explores three alternative
scenarios for the future development of the sector in coming years./
/Knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) are among the most rapidly
growing sectors of the EU economy, and play an increasingly important role in
the performance of client sectors. This third article reviews a range of
policy issues that are raised by the three scenarios - outlined in greater
detail in the previous article - in relation to the future development of
KIBS. As well as outlining major policy responses to these issues, it
examines their rationale and the challenges these responses are liable to
confront. In particular, the article calls for more explicit consideration of
KIBS in innovation policy and in other policy areas./
/Under pressure from economic and financial globalisation, French-based food
group, Danone, and electrical household appliance manufacturer, Moulinex,
announced large-scale restructuring in 2001. Danone decided to rationalise
its European biscuit production facilities which led to the closure of the
Saiwa factory in Locate Triulzi, Italy, while Moulinex filed for bankruptcy
following an unsuccessful company recovery plan. The two case studies explore
the decision-making process accompanying the restructuring, outline the
positive aspects and highlight the initiatives underway for economic
redevelopment of the regions concerned./
/Knowledge-intensive business services, or KIBS for short, represent one of
the fastest growing areas of the European economy. The first of three
articles in the Sector Futures series on this sector sets out by defining
KIBS, which involves distinguishing them from other forms of services and
knowledge-intensive activities. It then looks at knowledge-intensive business
services in the European Union (EU), highlighting key similarities and
differences in their development across Member States. The feature also
examines the forces driving the sector’s growth, including issues of
outsourcing, the internationalisation of services, and the growth in demand
for certain forms of knowledge./
/Sector Futures provides specialised reports based on the monitoring of
existing foresight studies, scenario work, innovation studies and reliable
data sources. The second article in the Sector Futures series on the
knowledge-intensive business sector explores, in greater depth, the reasons
for the sector’s growth and draws up three alternative scenarios for its
future development. The third and last article in this series goes on to
review a range of policy issues that are raised by the three scenarios and
outlines major policy responses to these issues./
/In less than two decades, Europe’s telecoms sector has moved from a
nation-based industry, monopolised by public telecommunications operators to
a free market system, operating on an international scale. The European
Commission has played a key role in promoting market liberalisation through
its regulatory regime. This EMCC dossier provides an in-depth analysis of the
trends and forces driving change in the sector, using a compilation of
relevant reports, company case studies and scenarios to give a comprehensive
insight into a continuously evolving industry./
/Sector Futures provides specialised reports based on the monitoring of
existing foresight studies, scenario work, innovation studies and reliable
data sources. The third article in the series on the transport sector (May
2005) explores some of the issues that have arisen from policies of the
Commission White Paper 'European transport policy for 2010’, and from
subsequent policy documents./
This case study report reviews the developments of the telecommunications
sector in Hungary. Developments were remarkable during the 1990s, placing
Hungary among the countries of central and eastern Europe with the highest
number of telephone lines per 100 inhabitants. The reasons behind this
industry growth lay in the early commencement of the market liberalisation
process, in the establishment of a tariff strategy attracting investments and
in the clear separation of the regulatory functions from the operative ones.
This case study outlines these development stages starting from 1989. The
industry structure and its main features are also described.
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