Paper by Nuran Acur, Mariangela Piazza and Giovanni Perrone: “Firms are increasingly engaging in crowdsourcing for innovation to access new knowledge beyond their boundaries; however, scholars are no closer to understanding what guides seeker firms in deciding the level at which to acquire rights from solvers and the effect that this decision has on the performance of crowdsourcing contests.

IG Metall is the world’s largest organised employee representation. For them, as well as for other unions, working in the digital age raises many new challenges and tasks. Stefan Stumpp, associate researcher at HIIG interviewed Vanessa Barth, Head of Target Group Work and Equality at IG Metall, about these challenges and how to deal with…
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September 2018, Nation Books. Text republished from Nathan Schneider’s website.
A new feudalism is on the rise. From the internet to service and care, more and more industries expect people to live gig to gig, while monopolistic corporations feed their spoils to the rich. But as Nathan Schneider shows through years of in-depth reporting, there is an alternative to the robber-baron economy hiding in plain sight; we just need to know where to look.

Prof. Dr. Joachim Windolf, Direktor der Klinik für Unfall- und Handchirurgie am Universitätsklinikum Düsseldorf (UKD) und Präsident der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Unfallchirurgie (DGU), rät den radelnden Schülerinnen und Schülern außerdem dringend zum Tragen eines Fahrradhelms: „Bei schweren Verletzungen mit dem Fahrrad ist vor allem der Kopf betroffen.

Robert Raymond: We are witnessing the rise of a solidarity economy movement, stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific, including organizations like Cooperation Worcester in Massachusetts, Cooperation Humboldt and Cooperation Richmond in California, and Cooperation Jackson in Mississippi, among others.

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Date published: August 27, 2018Los Angeles Times"Many more companies felt the the impact, said Stanford Law School professor Barbara van Schewick, who has studied the issue for more than a decade.

Frank Chaparro at BusinessInsider: “JPMorgan’s corporate and investment bank is best known for advising businesses on billion-dollar acquisitions, helping private unicorns tap into the public markets, and managing the cash of Fortune 500 companies.

Paper by Christi J. Guerrini, Mary A. Majumder,  Meaganne J. Lewellyn, and Amy L. McGuire in Science: “Citizen science initiatives that support collaborations between researchers and the public are flourishing. As a result of this enhanced role of the public, citizen science demonstrates more diversity and flexibility than traditional science and can encompass efforts that have no institutional affiliation, are funded entirely by participants, or continuously or suddenly change their scientific aims.

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Emanuele Mottola (Politecnico di Torino)
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EXHIBITION
Furtherfield Gallery
Saturday 15 Sep until Sunday 21 Oct 2018
Private View: Friday 14 September 18:00 – 20:00 (Register)
Open Sat – Sun, 11:00 – 17:00 or by appointment
Admission Free

Last week saw the formal publication of the TLS 1.3 specification as RFC 8446. It’s been a long time coming – in fact it’s exactly 10 years since TLS 1.2 was published back in 2008 – but represents a substantial step forward in making the Internet a more secure and trusted place.
What is TLS and why is it needed?

Aaron Fernando: On July 3, the Co-operative Party in the U.K. launched a report at parliament outlining a strategy to double the size of the U.K.’s cooperative sector by 2030.

By discovering prions, Prusiner provided an explanation to the so-called "Rinderwahnsinn" disease, whose human equivalent is the Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD).

Descrição: Apesquisa envolverá discussões relacionadas à atuação do controle externo exercido pelo TCU sobre a atividade realizada pelas agências reguladoras federais.
Professores Responsáveis: Bruno Dantas e Sérgio Guerra
Participantes: Alexandre Arigony, Eduardo Rodrigues, Evandro Pereira, Fernanda Martins, Filipe Fonseca, Gabriel Esteves, Julia Ribeiro, Luis Roberto Guerra, Pedro Fontoura, Sandro Sabença e Valdecyr Gomes. 

A los talleres de actividad física y a las escuelas de natación, fútbol y básquetbol se suma judo, karate y balonmano. Los cursos están disponibles para todo el público y tienen por objetivo vincular a la Casa de Bello con su entorno.El Polideportivo Juan Gómez Millas continúa expandiendo su oferta deportiva de escuelas y talleres de la Universidad de Chile.

El entendimiento entre ambas instituciones -que se materializará en cursos, investigaciones y actividades de vinculación con el medio- permitirá enseñar e investigar conjuntamente respecto a políticas públicas de desarrollo y regímenes internacionales. El Rector Vivaldi celebró la iniciativa en una reunión protocolar junto al director de la OIT para el Cono Sur, Fabio Bertranou.

La edición 2018 de la trayectoria del buque científico de la Armada "Cabo de Hornos" se extenderá entre el 24 de septiembre y el 18 de octubre entre Puerto Montt y la Península de Taitao, permitiendo el desarrollo de novedosas investigaciones sobre el fondo marino que se espera, se traduzcan en el futuro en una mejor comprensión de diferentes fenómenos geológicos de nuestro país.La posibilidad de nuevas reservas minerales, depósitos de recursos energéticos, y estudios sobre riesgos geológicos, causas, efectos y probabilidad

Vivian Norambuena, académica de la Facultad de Economía y Negocios, FEN, y María Isabel Larenas, egresada de Ingeniería Comercial y Magíster en Economía de la misma facultad, fueron seleccionadas por el ministro de Hacienda, Felipe Larraín, para ocupar cargos de representantes de Chile ante el Banco Mundial y el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID).El pasado miércoles 1 de agosto Vivian Norambuena, académica del Departamento de Economía de la FEN, asumió como la nueva representante de Chile ante el Banco Mundial, y María Isabel Larenas, asumirá en septiembre como consej