A roadmap for the necessary integrated research and technological developments towards a new generation of virtual organizations is presented. This roadmap was developed in the context of the 1ST VOmap project and it covers five specific focus areas of: Socio-economic, VO management, ICT infrastructure, Support Services, and Formal models and theories. The vision designed for the roadmap, the proposed actions to reach the vision, as well as the schedule and suggested efforts for each action are presented in detail.

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The INTRAW project – European Union’s International Observatory for Raw Material - is working towards a sustainable future for the European Union in terms of access to raw materials. One of the major exercises is the evaluation of potential future scenarios for 2050 to help framing economic, research, and environmental policy development. The INTRAW consortium developed three possible future scenarios that encompass defined regimes of political, economic, and technological parameters to provide simulations of impacts resulting from expected conditions for 2050

This paper presents an approach to develop a system dynamics model for the evaluation of the productivity of knowledge-intensive services. This model is based on the results of a case study as well as on literature research. At first, this paper gives a short introduction about knowledge-intensive services and the system dynamics method. The identified variables as well as their causal relationships will be presented in the following sections. A recapitulation of the findings and a prospect on further research conclude the paper.

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