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Delinquent behaviour by young people is a long-standing subject of public and governmental concern. Although 'delinquency' is hard to define, widespread understanding of its core characteristics, main causes, and effects exists. The concept of 'social exclusion' is new and is not widely understood, but the problems it refers to are extensive. This paper provides an overview of both delinquency and social exclusion, and discusses how they relate to one another. The paper focuses on neighbourhoods in order to explain how delinquency can both follow from and add to social exclusion at the local level. Drawing on the author's research in Britain and America, the paper details how attending to the local links between delinquency and social exclusion can be central to addressing both problems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An overview of a presentation on the assessment of research and innovation policy is presented. It explores further examples of evaluation at the level of national systems or policies in Finland and Great Britain. According to the case studies, evaluation at the national level enables the totality of policy support for science and innovation to be examined. The conclusion reached about overall policymaking is given.

This short paper provides an informal perspective on the United Kingdom's development of security culture. It is an individual and personal viewpoint, as encouraged at this workshop, and does not represent formal U.K. policy on the subject. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Venture capital (VC) provides financial and managerial support for new innovative ideas at the initial stages of commercialization. It has helped to find the market for many radical innovations of 20th century, including personal computer, Internet and genetic engineering. As a part of market economy venture business was not stable from the very beginning. The periods of rapid growth alternated with deep recessions. However each time VC revived anew as the Phoenix due to its very important function in modern knowledge-based economy. This report presents an analysis of statistical data that prove the existence of several cycles in VC dynamics in the USA and the Great Britain. The main factors of these cycles formation are discussed. The author proposes two possible scenarios of development of VC market for the first 30 years of the new 21st century. A hypothesis is put forward about the relation between VC cycle's amplitude and a phase of Kondratieff's cycle. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Focuses on human resource competency management in the British civil service. Factual background on performance management initiatives in the country's civil service sector; Competency framework at the level of senior service; Evaluation of learning organization and comparative public management.

Examines informatization and administrative modernization in the public sector in Great Britain. Information on the British National Health Service (NHS); Provisions of the NHS reform bill; Application of information technology; Changes in cultures and patterns of control; Features of information projects for the NHS.

Examines large scale information systems in public administration in Great Britain. Computerization of the Inland Revenue's Pay As You Earn program; Political and strategic context of 1980s computerization; Inland Revenue's chronology of computerization; Department of Social Security's chronology of computerization; Project assessment and profiles; Project management.

Examines informatization policies in Great Britain. Coordination and organization of national informatization policies; Coordination within central government; Formation of the government center for information systems called CCTA; Policy principles and objectives; Policy instruments.

Investigates the management of a National Lottery in Great Britain using a highly parallel scalable computer system based on a transputer architecture. Structure of the National Lottery game; Details on the data volumes involved in the lottery application; Parts of the process architecture for the lottery; Discussion on mapping the process architecture onto a transputer network.

There is an urgent need for the implementation of a systematic search for talents, their recruitment and motivation in our country nowadays. The Board of Armenia-Great Britain society (which is a non-governmental organization) undertook the difficult and at the same time rewarding task of finding ways of recruiting and educating gifted high-school students. The lectures delivered by scientists and scholars cover different scientific disciplines, such as natural sciences, ecological issues, as well as language problems. Attracting gifted students to scientific research will provide a steady basis for the improvement of science in our country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]