Cooperating successfully in complex systems is a key challenge of the 21st century ℓ́ℓ a challenge we encounter in the global business context and in almost all policy fields. Whether we are looking at airport expansions, health reform, education system reform or public debt reduction, the complexity of such social change processes requires sophisticated interaction between different organ…
Epistemic Freedom in Africa is about the struggle for African people to think, theorize, interpret the world and write from where they are located, unencumbered by Eurocentrism. The imperial denial of common humanity to some human beings meant that in turn their knowledges and experiences lost their value, their epistemic virtue. Now, in the twenty-first century, descendants of enslaved, displa…
These Proceedings offer a selection of peer-reviewed research and survey papers by some of the foremost international researchers in the fields of finance, energy, stochastics and risk, who present their latest findings on topical problems. The papers cover the areas of stochastic modeling in energy and financial markets; risk management with environmental factors from a stochastic control pers…
The present book is the result of the master thesis written in the summer of 2015 for the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (MIPLC) LLM in IP and Competition. The subject of the thesis is the much debated issue of standard-essential patents, their enforcement and the implications for EU competition law. It is an attempt to deal with a problem not much discussed in the literature, namely t…
n the modern marketplace characterised by a profusion of signs and labels, Community collective marks seem rather absent. Although provided for in the European trade mark legislation, they are underutilised in practice and quite neglected in legal theory, which, in its vast majority, is restricted in mere repetitions and reformulations of the legislative text. In those cases of commentaries whe…
When recalling the recent United Nations climate process at the eighteenth Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the eighth Conference of Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP) in Doha, Qatar last December, one may wonder what the diplomatic value of such massive negotiations really is. In the…
The Brexit decision to leave the EU is a miscarriage of democracy. It is an expression of UK sovereignty, proving not, however, that the Kingdom is retrieving its full sovereignty from the EU. Instead it proves that the UK's sovereignty has failed to evolve along with its membership of the EU and take on a European dimension. This failure has seen UK sovereignty regress from a sophisticated…
The topic of this book is one of the most contentious, complex and at the same time very important in many respects. Latest achievements in the biotechnology industry related to the stem cell technology are quite important. On the one hand, human embryonic stem cells are viewed as strong tools to be applied for curing or at least alleviating of until now not curable illnesses, such as Alzheimer…
This volume casts light on mergers and alliances in higher education by examining developments of this type in different countries. It combines the direct experiences of those at the heart of such transformations, university leaders and senior officials responsible for higher education policy, with expert analysts of the systems concerned. Higher education in Europe faces a series of major c…
Why should mindfulness and meditation be taught at universities? What impact could the establishment of such programs have on students and on the education system itself? Andreas de Bruin showcases the remarkable results of the first ten years of the Munich Model »Mindfulness and Meditation in a University Context« - a program started in the year 2010 in which 2000 students have already parti…