Building Research

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY : FREE SOFTWARE TO SUPPORT STARTUPS.
Tech Europe; 12/2/2009; 659 words; ...visibility. BizSpark is aimed at private companies and individuals building a software-based product or service, being less than three...is supported by economic development agencies, university research centres, banks and investors such as EBAN, The Indus Entrepreneurs...

Building reliable theories of the presidency.(SYMPOSIUM: The Future of Presidential Studies)(Report)
Presidential Studies Quarterly; 12/1/2009; 5333 words; ...the essential task of theory building is hampered by a false choice...At the other extreme is research at the lowest level of abstraction...and expectations for guiding research to identify empirically accurate...investigation is that presidency research requires theoretical and conceptual...

Karen Hult steps down as book review editor.(ANNOUNCEMENTS)(Brief article)
Presidential Studies Quarterly; 12/1/2009; 685 words; ...who knows Karen. She has been a mainstay of the Presidency Research Group, serving in virtually every leadership position in the...outstanding job. We, and especially I, are in her debt. Building on the sound foundation Karen has built over the past 11 years...

We all want a revolution: Neustadt, new institutionalism, and the future of presidency research.(SYMPOSIUM: The Future of Presidential Studies)(Report)
Presidential Studies Quarterly; 12/1/2009; 20382 words; ...pervasive influence left presidency research in a state of intellectual...very conducive to the theory building and testing necessary to generate...insular nature of presidency research. In his view, scholars in...a consequence, presidency research languished while more theoretically...

Thriving oceans, thriving fishermen.(Dock talk)
National Fisherman; 12/1/2009; 1165 words; ...fishermen every day about how tough things are. Independent research and experience in hundreds of fisheries show that when management...advise the Sea Change Investment Fund that directly invests in building markets for sustainably caught fish to benefit fishermen...