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• Advances and challenges in innovation studies

  - 2005-03-01

  The study of innovation is a relatively young and fast-growing branch of social science. Mainly inspired by the work of Joseph Schumpeter and by other research traditions outside the economics mainstream, it has developed as an interdisciplinary field studying the relationships among economic, technological, organizational, and institutional changes. In his...

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• Mandela, Rhodes - what do they have in common?

  - 2003-08-01

  SOUTH AFRICA/ZIMBABWE The seventh Will of Cecil John Rhodes, the British arch colonialist left, created an educational grant known as the 'Rhodes Scholarship' in 1902, But in recent weeks, hairs have been torn over the addition of the Mandela name to the Rhodes Foundation. Shingai Rukwata Ndoro reports....

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• Asceticism.(Review)

  - 1999-01-01

  Asceticism. Edited by Vincent L. Wimbush and Richard Valantasis. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. Pp. xxxiii + 638. The secret pleasure of receiving, thumbing through, and then pouring over a tome on asceticism is a self-indulgence reserved for scholars...

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