Competitiveness: in search for complexity with an surplus value
According Johan Albrecht the Belgian companies need to scale up to high-tech products to best take advantage of the growth opportunities of the global economy.
Theme
Prosperity
Itinera gaat voor een samenleving waar het aangenaam is om te leven, waar frisse, ambitieuze ideeën de kans krijgen uit te groeien tot duurzame ondernemingen, waar onderwijs jongeren klaarstoomt en zin geeft, en waar innovaties transformeren in succesvolle producten in een economie die blijft bloeien.
All to Google Bank?
For many years one has speculated on Google establishing itself as a bank. Banks are transforming themselves more than ever in an IT system connected to a marketing machine. It is not surprising that competition from a company as Google is looked at with special interest.
Fiscal incentives for Research and Development
Innovation is an important driver of growth and investments in R&D stimulate innovation. Many governments encourage investments in R&D with the purpose of addressing market failures.
Less automatic increases, more pay for work
Marc De Vos supports the idea that young workers should earn more, earlier in their careers, but warns that the reverse is needed for those who are at a later stage of their careers. If we do it right all generations and social security can benefit.
Community service for the unemployed
For the third time in a few years community service for the unemployed was recently proposed again. Superficial evaluations of these experiments abroad often indicate a reduction in the number of benefit recipients.
Make sure the money reaches its target!
In 2002 the Flemish government tried to address the high social inequality in education. The government chose to implement a policy specifically targeting students with a disadvantaged background by identifying them through a number of ‘equal education indicators’.
The failure of differentiated policy for education?
In 2009 the French Community adopted the decree for differentiated funding. In 2002 Flanders had set up a similar program (the GOK-decree). What are the results and what can we learn from them?
Marc De Vos reacts on the fuss concerning immigration and labour market (NL)
Marc De Vos gives his opinion on the recent fuss concerning immigration and the labour market that started after the newspaper De Standaard published a series of opinion pieces.
School absenteeism: The grief of the parents
Withdrawing family benefits is not the solution to the drop-out. This penalty deepens the distance between the student and the school and also makes the entire family precarious. To fight against the drop-out, we must bring the school closer to the student.