Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Demonstration, 1985'

Twenty non- dormant and very non -dormant alfalfa varieties were compared over three seasons. A very non -dormant variety Pioneer 5929 yielded the most during the 1986 season, with a yield approaching 12 tons per acre in six cuttings.

The study explores collective action in Sweden between 1980 to 1995 using time-series data from the European Protest and Coercion Database. In spite of severe hardship during the crisis of the early 1990s, Swedish strike-rates declined. However, contention merely shifted from workplaces into the streets; there was indeed a protest movement against austerity, as shown by a series of large demonstrations, and some riots, between 1989 and 1993. Further analysis indicates this movement faded as it was increasingly chanelled into the electoral campaign of the labor pary; having won the 1994 election, the organised labor movement no longer had an interest in sustaining the protest movement against austerity.

Cotton lint yields in the variety trials in Graham county were higher than the 1987 yields by close to 200 pounds per acre. Two varieties, BR 110 and NK KNX 111 (now KC 311) yielded more than DP 90 at the Thatcher site, the highest yield being 1,569 pounds of lint per acre. In Eden, DP 90 was the highest yielding variety with 1,237 pounds of lint per acre. The New Mexico acalas didn't yield as much lint per acre as the top yielding varieties, but with 1988's premium, produced substantial income per acre. In Thatcher the highest yielding acala produced $861 per acre compared with BR 110's $910, whereas in Eden the highest yielding acala produced $736 per acre against DP 90's $717.

Short- staple variety trials were grown in two locations in Graham County in 1989. Exceptional weather conditions, coupled with good management practices, provided record cotton yields in the Safford valley. Delta Pine 77 was the highest yielding variety in the Thatcher location with a yield of 1740 pounds of lint per acre. An experimental acala from New Mexico came in second in this triad ahead of Delta Pine 90. Delta Pine 90 was the highest yielding variety in the Eden area with a yield of 1196 pounds per acre. Data on percent first pick plant height and plant populations are presented for each variety in each location. Graphs of heat units received each day throughout the growing season at the AZMET station on the Safford Agricultural Center are presented for 1988 and 1989.

Two wheat varieties were grown in Graham county as a follow -up to a previous field demonstration. AC79-97, a red wheat developed by the University of Arizona for the Safford area, yielded 6719 pounds per acre, compared with 6359 pounds per acre for Super-X. The protein differential made the crop values even more important than the yield comparison. AC79-97 produced $454 per acre, compared to $423 for Super-X. Using two year's data, AC79-97 produced 85 more pounds of protein per acre than Super-X, with a protein supplement replacement value of $28 per acre.

A short staple variety trial was conducted on the demonstration farm, at the Maricopa Agricultural Center in 1989. Twenty varieties, received from various seed companies, were entered into the test. Results from the analysis showed significant differences among varieties with no observable performance trend in terms of maturity types (long or short season). The lint yields in this test ranged from 4679 to 3353 lbs. acre⁻¹ for DPL90, and S55 respectively.

Short staple variety trials were conducted for four years at Prechel Farms near Coolidge Az. Six varieties were included in 1988, twelve in 1989, eight in 1990, and eight in 1991. Results from the statistical analysis showed significant differences among varieties in each of the four tests. Lint yields ranged from 908 to 1313 lbs. lint acre⁻¹ in 1988, 2844 to 4827 lbs. seedcotton acre⁻¹ in 1989, 695 to 1059 lbs. lint acre⁻¹ in 1990, and 1065 to 1286 lbs. lint acre⁻¹ in 1991. Those varieties that were medium to short- season maturity types yielded higher than long season maturity types in the 1988 and 1990 seasons. The reverse was true in the 1989 season and results were mixed in 1991.

Short staple variety demonstrations were conducted in Pinal County in 1989 at the Prechel and Benedict Farms near Coolidge Az. Twelve varieties were included in the demonstration at Prechel Farms. Results from the analysis showed significant differences among varieties. Seedcotton yields in this test ranged from 4826 to 2844 lbs. acre⁻¹ for STV BR-110 and S-55 respectively. Seven varieties were included in the demonstration at Benedict Farms. Results from the analysis showed significant differences among varieties. Seedcotton yields in this test ranged from 4127 to 3530 lbs. acre⁻¹ for STV BR-110 and DP-50 respectively.

Two on farm, replicated short staple variety demonstrations were established in 1995. Twelve varieties were evaluated on the Carpenter farm in Solomon and on the Colvin farm in Eden. Several new varieties were planted in both studies, including 2 varieties from Hartz Seed and a new Stoneville entry. Delta Pine 5690 and SureGrow 501 were the highest yielding varieties with yields of 1018 and 1446 pounds of lint per acre at the Solomon and Eden locations, respectively.

A new alfalfa variety trial was planted in the fall of 1987to replace the previous four-year trial. The top varieties from the previous trial were placed in the new trial, along with new, promising varieties. A single year's data is insufficient to judge the performance of a variety during its useful years of production. The data simply indicate performance in their first year. Pioneer 5929, the variety that had the best overall yield in the previous trial (1), performed well in this trial as well. However, Mecca, a new variety from Plant Genetics, Inc., had the highest yield.

Yields by cutting are given for 22 varieties of alfalfa grown at the Safford Agricultural Center. Yields were good in 1989 with 9 of the varieties yielding over 10 tons per acre in 7 cuttings and the top variety yielding 12 tons per acre. Graphs are shown comparing yields by cutting between sister varieties of differing fall dormancy classes.

Six pinto bean varieties were tested in the Bonita area of Graham county with excellent results, three of these varieties yielded over 3000 pounds per acre. These yields coupled with bean values above 30 cents per pound have created considerable interest in growing dry beans in Cochise and parts of Graham county.

The purpose of this thesis is to analyse, in the broadest light, the very specific subject matter of the Brisbane Protests of 1965 to 1972. Additionally the thesis reflects on the limitations of the relevant social movement theorists in regard to understanding these Brisbane events in the light of general theory and historical analyses. The question that the thesis seeks to answer is how to provide a coherent account of the myriad of groups and protests that flourished in Brisbane in the period 1965 to 1972. These protesters’ relationship to global events, yet specificity within a context and diversity in their internal differences and their outcomes, both short- and long- term, prevent ready categorisation within theoretical understandings or inclusive historical analyses. The thesis finds important new historical detail set in contexts infrequently analysed in literature about protest activities. Using this deficit to assess the various strengths and weaknesses of several major social movement theorists, it articulates not only their separate and collective value but also the need for their supplementation by other general theory, as well as general historical and more localised geo-political perspectives. Analytically the thesis relies firstly on three social movement theorists, Tarrow, Melucci and Habermas, the further application of some general theory in Global Systems Theory and feminism. These other general insights prove of specific analytical relevance while they also point to necessarily more universal critiques of the social movement theories. The first analytical frame of the thesis comprises of these theories. Secondly through using the historical concept of post-totalitarianism, a second analytical frame contains an hypothesis about a re-awakened Romanticism tangential but related to this post-totalitarian influence. This historical explanation of post-totalitarianism operates as a ‘catch-all’ explanation of the important directions of social and political change affecting the international community in the Cold War era prior to and contemporaneous with the protests. While the new left’s contemporaneous links to the Brisbane protests appear important, these are far from exclusive given that several other, ultimately more historically important in hindsight movements such as the women’s movement have roots in the times, as do a plethora of other activities of the Brisbane Protests. These protests cannot readily fit the description of that of a local chapter of the new left. Instead the wider and more diverse incorporation of these events under radical Romantic post-totalitarianism proves valuable analytically. In addition, this Romantic form of post-totalitarianism captures the considerable ambiguity in the literature about the new left. Amenable to the understanding of both radical humanist practices and to degeneration from such ideals, of which the latter, in particular, is now pervasively represented in the scholarship as description of the fate of the new left, radical Romantic post-totalitarianism conceptually defines the range and complexity of the influences on the Brisbane Protests more adequately than the literature focused upon the international new left. The contradictory associations with on one hand, ideological rigidity and terrorism described in this thesis as the ‘official’ new left and on the other hand post-totalitarianism and other aspects of Romanticism (other than terrorist or just insurrectionary association) alone suggest the new left’s problematic status as a general explanation of the Brisbane Protests. Radical post-totalitarian Romanticism incorporates an international influence linked to post-war and Cold War consciousness and new emerging critiques of the global status quo as well as the ambiguity of manifestations of movements connected to this Western based but also third-world influenced consciousness. These influences and their potentials will be explored within the post-war world although these are also derivative of early streams of reflection about, particularly, industrial societies. At the same time the connection of the women’s and the Indigenous movements to the new left has an analytic framework in which differences and similarities can benefit from new perspectives. The thesis holds that the immediate context and movement-relevant clashes over the understanding of and changes in the dynamics of the Cold War period rest on the notional division of protagonists for change into post-totalitarians and radical Romantic post-totalitarians. The former view represents supporters and sometime-allies; the latter that of the often newer in formation, very loosely organised protesters. This clash provides a schematic overview, however social movement analyses, while of critical value, must then be further related to the idiosyncratic national formation of countries like Australia. Thirdly, the analysis includes reconstructions of various interpretations of the specifically fragile character of the Australian nation identity beyond its core-peripherality in its subsumption of culture and politics in orientations to national survival through alliance and the absence of ideological discourse and division. Its general culture rests on a patriarchal, materialistic utilitarianism. Queensland’s partly idiosyncratic position within this national context is the final focus of this third frame. Beyond the Janus-face of coreperipherality represented by these national and state jurisdictions the thesis is examines further specificity at the State level also. While the thesis concludes that these three frames are necessary components of the explanation of the civil liberties, anti-war, anti-suburban including cultural production, Romantic university, gender and race movements, it finds that these social movements of the Brisbane Protests must be described, beyond their relationship, which is partial and complex, to theories of Western social movement formation, as discrete historical formations of radical Romantic post-totalitarianism. Yet this perspective also requires supplementation by framing based upon recognition of Australia’s semi-peripheral status and materialistic utilitarianism, which contribute to a protester-initiated cultural and political national identity crisis rather than just a political crisis. As well this frame relies on the assertion that Queensland’s debilitated public sphere, in the light of movements elsewhere, proved conducive to a dominant role for university-based people in initiating and broadening the disputes with the use of immanent critique, and culturally rich and inclusive outlooks in theoretical and organisational practices. In various alliances including between university groups, few workers, and the deeply culturally stratified Indigenous and women, both of whose movements eventually proved the most efficacious while fracturing the illusion that this was a united effort without deep differences the radical Romantic posttotalitarians made use of resources, including pre-formed and somewhat idiosyncratic domestic and urban spaces. All these factors coalesced to produce partly generation reliant changes in oppressive conditions. Therefore the thesis argues that general theory and historical analyses are both critical to the explanation and provide a sufficiently rich tapestry of generality and exception to provide an analytic model. Despite the insights gained from Tarrow’s view of political processes, Melucci’s view of experimental spaces, identity and sites of conflict in new types of training and Habermas’ sense of the breadth of rationalising processes, operating in the background yet influential on the outcomes of social movements, the theoretical conclusion points to problems with some of their terminology like that of ‘democracy’, ‘solidarity’, ‘post-industrial’, ‘new’ or ‘and offensive’ and ‘lifeworld and system’. It finds, rather, that semi-peripheral countries require different understandings pitched variously at formations of national identity, and that there are analytical problems, when using their insights, in understanding ‘democracies’ exhibiting very truncated and deformed public spheres. The thesis argues for a concept of cultural stratification to deal with the particular features, status and character of movements of the racial and gender colonies. It finds that movements are gendered in regard to solidarity as well as ‘interests’. Further it argues the Indigenous have a distinct location within the process of modernisation due to their experiences of both sporadic inclusion and cultural and physical genocide. It indicates that there are significant potentials for protest in circumstances where there is a contradictory duality within a single nation, of general modernising rationalisations and, within this, oppressive ‘pockets’ of legal frameworks, political systems and cultural norms. Social movements have discrete places in historical and sociological processes. The analysis of these requires further recognition of the complexity of social change happening through and within them than is afforded by Tarrow, Melucci and Habermas. Much as their contributions are of great value, Global Systems Theory, and feminism suggest the limitations of these social movement theories at the general level, while historical analyses suggest more specific limitations in understanding the case of the Brisbane Protests as part of, particularly, Western post -war movements.
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On farm variety demonstrations are conducted by the Cooperative Extension Service to demonstrate the commercial potential of new and established varieties of wheat and barley when grown under various environmental and management conditions. As part of an ongoing variety demonstration program conducted in Yuma County, Arizona for the past 20 years, this study was conducted at TLM Farms on the south Yuma Mesa on extremely coarse-textured sandy soils under sprinkler irrigation. Five hard red spring wheat, six durum and four barley varieties were evaluated under TLM Farms management using 13 ft x 275 ft randomized plots with four replications. Statistically significant yield differences were measured that suggest, when compared to previous and other studies, that variety performance on coarse textured, sprinkler-irrigated soils is different than on finer textured flood-irrigated soils.

Twenty non - and very non - dominant alfalfa varieties were compared over three seasons. The top - yielding variety, Pioneer 5929, has maintained this position for the last three years. The yields decreased considerably from the previous year, however. Part of the loss can be attributed to the sacrifice of the first cutting because of damage by the Egyptian alfalfa weevil. Pioneer 5929 was the top -yielding variety during the entire trial, producing more than 30 tons per acre. Four other varieties produced more than 28 tons per acre: Ardiente by Agripro; Pierce by Northrup King, Palmer Special by the Palmer brothers of Graham county; and Safford 80 LH.

Short staple variety trials have been conducted for three years on the demonstration farm, at the Maricopa Agricultural Center. Twenty varieties, received from various seed companies, were entered into the test in 1989, 19 varieties in 1990, and 10 varieties in 1991. Yields ranged from 3353 to 4679 lbs. seedcotton/acre in 1989, 829 to 1428 lbs. lint/acre in 1990 and 1099 to 1246 lbs. lint/acre in 1991. Results form the statistical analysis showed significant differences among varieties for all three years. Differences among varieties in 1989 showed no clear trends with respect to maturity types. In 1990, those varieties that were medium to early season maturity types yielded higher than full season maturity types. The results in 1991 showed medium maturity types yielding in the highest ranking of the test without exception, while the performance of the full season maturity types was mixed. An additional test with narrow row spacing (30 inches) was included in 1991 with 5 varieties. Yields ranged from 947 to 1117 lbs. lint/acre. No significant differences were detected among varieties.

Three varieties of feed wheat were compared in an on farm demonstration in the Safford valley. AC79 -97, developed by the University of Arizona for the Safford area,produced the largest amount of high protein feed Comparing 200 and 300 pound per acre seeding rates, both AC79 -97 and Super -X yielded slightly more grain at the 200 pound rate than at the 300 pound rate. Yolo, a feed wheat variety that has done well in the Sacramento valley in California, yielded slightly lower than the Super-X.

A wheat and barley demonstration on the Bruce Church Farm, Poston, Arizona, harvested June 5, 1986, gave crop and variety performance differences under grower management conditions. The top yielding barley variety was Westbred Gustoe, 6190 lbs /acre. The leading durum varieties were Turbo and Yavaros, 7280 and 7220 lbs/acre, respectively. Durum Wheat Westbred 881 was highest in protein (15.6 %) and lowest in percentage of yellowberry. In the bread wheat varieties, yields ranged from 6740 to 6570 lbs per acre. Varieties tested were Yecora Rojo, Probred, Probrand 775, and Westbred 911, with no significant differences in yield between varieties. Yecora Rojo was highest in protein (15.8 %). While these are the results of one year, continued testing over several years is necessary to assess variety performance under grower management conditions.

Recent decades have seen a shift in the focus of civil rights historiography. Building upon the exhaustive studies of national figures and events, and in search of new perspectives, many historians have concentrated on local movements often ignored or forgotten. Other than the work of a few local scholars, the civil rights movement as it occurred in St. Petersburg, Florida, has received little attention. Furthermore, the limited scholarship lacks the cohesion necessary to compare and contrast the movement with similar events throughout the state and across the nation. The story of St. Petersburg's active and significant struggle for social equality, placed within its proper context, adds another piece to a larger picture and continues to reveal the complex nature of the American Civil Rights Movement.

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This work deals with the Method of Mathematical Induction, in particular, its use with a view to the solution of geometric problems. It initially some considerations are made about the expression "inductive reasoning" whose it meaning, as appropriately must be explained in the text, that differs from that of "mathematical induction". We prove the proposition that guarantees the use of the method based on its foundation, namely the axiom of mathematical induction (one of the postulates that characterize the natural numbers). It exhibited some examples of its use of Algebra and the Theory of Numbers. And then, some applications of the method of mathematical induction to the problems of Geometry are explored to obtain a geometric measure in terms of another(s), either for the demonstration of a proposition that insinuates itself true, or for the stages of construction of a figure given
Este trabalho trata do Método de Indução Matemática, em especial, de seu uso com vistas à solução de problemas geométricos. Inicialmente, são feitas algumas considerações acerca da expressão "raciocínio indutivo", cujo sentido, conforme apropriadamente explicado no texto, difere do de "indução matemática". É provada a proposição que garante o uso do método com base em seu fundamento, a saber, o axioma de indução matemática (um dos postulados que caracterizam os números naturais) e exibidos alguns exemplos de sua utilização em Álgebra e Teoria dos Números. Em seguida, são exploradas algumas aplicações do método de indução matemática à problemas de Geometria, seja para a obtenção de uma medida geométrica em termos de outra(s), para a demonstração de uma proposição que se insinua verdadeira, ou para a exibição das etapas de construção de uma dada figura.

This study describes the case of private higher education in Ohio between 1980 and 2006 using Zumeta's (1996) model of state policy and private higher education. More specifically, this study used case study methodology and multiple sources to demonstrate the usefulness of Zumeta's model and illustrate its limitations. Ohio served as the subject state and data for 67 private, 4-year, degree-granting, Higher Learning Commission-accredited institutions were collected. Data sources for this study included the National Center for Education Statistics Integrated Postsecondary Data System as well as database infonnation and documents from various state agencies in Ohio, including the Ohio Board of Regents. The findings of this study indicated that the general state context for higher education in Ohio during the study time period was shaped by deteriorating economic factors, stagnating population growth coupled with a rapidly aging society, fluctuating state income and increasing expenditures in areas such as corrections, transportation and social services. However, private higher education experienced consistent enrollment growth, an increase in the number of institutions, widening involvement in state-wide planning for higher education, and greater fiscal support from the state in a variety of fonns such as the Ohio Choice Grant. This study also demonstrated that private higher education in Ohio benefited because of its inclusion in state-wide planning and the state's decision to grant state aid directly to students. Taken together, this study supported Zumeta's (1996) classification of Ohio as having a hybrid market-competitive/central-planning policy posture toward private higher education. Furthermore, this study demonstrated that Zumeta' s model is a useful tool for both policy makers and researchers for understanding a state's relationship to its private higher education sector. However, this study also demonstrated that Zumeta's model is less useful when applied over an extended time period. Additionally, this study identifies a further limitation of Zumeta's model resulting from his failure to define "state mandate" and the "level of state mandates" that allows for inconsistent analysis of this component.

This essay sheds light on the protest events in connection with the Davis-Cup matches in Båstad in 1968 and 1975. They are relatively close in time, touch on the same sports competition, similar issues, engage largely the same group of protesters and were the subject of enormous media interest. When looking at the events in Båstad in a retrospective light, the event in 1968 is reflected much more strongly than the event in 1975, in this essay this imbalance will be examined in more detail. The main purpose of the essay is to, based on articles in Svenska Dagbladet and Dagens Nyheter, comparatively investigate how these newspapers may have shaped the historical image of the events in connection with the Davis Cup matches in Båstad in 1968 and 1975. The theoretical framework is based on framing theory, which shows how media's representations of reality affect people's perceptions, how media, in some ways but not others, reproduces and disseminates different power centers’. The choice of the theoretical framework rests on the thesis that the newspapers' depiction of the events created a historical picture of them. The newspapers visualize the reality according to preferences that they find to be rewarding now. The essay's methodological starting point is both quantitative and qualitative as it consists of a conventional content analysis on the one hand and is inspired by a quantitative four-step model that is connected to the framing theory on the other. The results show that the framings of the newspapers can be linked to the different course of events of the protests, as well as the modernization of social institutions, in particular sports. In 1968, the white sport was still white, but the events in Båstad nullified the possibility of seriously claiming that sports and politics did not influence each other. The similar framings of the newspapers in 1975 also show how far the abolition of authority had come. Sport was opened to the world and to politics, modernized and democratized and is today more democratically governed than before.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1995.
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This thesis entitled‚ Kopřivnice in the process of political changes in 1989/1990' consists of a description and analysis of events connected to the disintegration of the post-totalitarian authoritarian regime in Czechoslovakia and deals with the transition to democracy of the medium-sized North Moravian town, Kopřivnice. My aim is to record not only the course of political changes, but also social and economic development after 17 November 1989. In terms of time, the thesis covers the period from 1986 to the municipal election in November 1990. The first chapter deals with the characteristics of the post-totalitarian authoritarian regime in Czechoslovakia before 1989 and the pre-existing conditions for the subsequent changes which took place in Czechoslovakia and Czech society. The second chapter explains the basic milestones in the history of the town which influenced its development, its population structure and its importance in the regional framework. The third chapter ‚Reflection of Kopřivnice before 17 November 1989' describes the functioning of the town's municipal commitees and their significance in state administration. The current situation in the town just before 17 November 1989 is analysed from the position of the town leadership carried out by the local municipal commitee. The fourth...

This thesis entitled‚ Kopřivnice in the process of political changes in 1989/1990' consists of a description and analysis of events connected to the disintegration of the post-totalitarian authoritarian regime in Czechoslovakia and deals with the transition to democracy of the medium-sized North Moravian town, Kopřivnice. My aim is to record not only the course of political changes, but also social and economic development after 17 November 1989. In terms of time, the thesis covers the period from 1986 to the municipal election in November 1990. The first chapter describes the oral history method, its position in the modern science and in the practical part of this thesis. The second chapter deals with the characteristics of the post-totalitarian authoritarian regime in Czechoslovakia before 1989 and the pre-existing conditions for the subsequent changes which took place in Czechoslovakia and Czech society. The third chapter analyses the field of the Velvet Revolution in revolution theory terms. It examines, if it is possible to consider the change as a revolution, and it studies the events in November 1989 from the point of view of the theory of transition. The third chapter explains the basic milestones in the history of the town which influenced its development, its population structure and its...

Technology transfer - defined as the reciprocal movement of know-how between an institutional technological environment and an industrial environment - has operated as an enabler of the business innovation process. Its socio-economic benefits have warranted the interest of organizations, since it allows them to acquire a larger set of skills, to complement their learning and to more rapidly overcome any obstacles that might arise in technology development and commercialization. In this regard, within the 2014-2020 Framework, policy-makers reinforced their innovation support programmes and policies, for the purpose of stimulating this phenomenon and thereby foster a structural transformation based on competitiveness and economy specialization in multiple and interconnected spaces. Nevertheless, a holistic assessment of those instruments, which might foster coherent and transparent decision-making in Portugal, is plainly lacking. In the light of this, the current dissertation puts forwards a systemic assessment methodology and applies it to one of the measures that promotes technology transfer – the Demonstrator projects. This assessment model makes it possible to monitor, inform and disclose the efficiency with which the activities are coordinated, the quality of the processes, the prospective effects and externalities, as well as their market potential, in an accurate and comprehensive way. The results were quite clear: innovation, by means of technology transfer, promotes more qualified employment, dissemination actions, desire for business expansion, international connections, interregional and intersectoral collaboration and, consequently, technologies with larger innovative and commercial capacity. Emphasis is therefore put on fostering its practice in Portugal, which entails the concertation of the existing deficit between all the economic agents comprising it.
A transferência tecnológica - caraterizada como o movimento recíproco de know-how entre um ambiente institucional tecnológico e um ambiente industrial - tem atuado como facilitadora do processo de inovação empresarial. Os seus benefícios socioeconómicos têm despertado o interesse das organizações, uma vez que lhes permite adquirir uma maior base de skills, complementar aprendizagens e mais rapidamente superar quaisquer obstáculos com que se deparem no desenvolvimento e comercialização tecnológica. Neste contexto, no Quadro 2014-2020, os policy-makers reforçaram os seus programas e instrumentos de apoio à inovação, visando estimular este fenómeno e, assim, fomentar uma transformação estrutural baseada na competitividade e na especialização da economia em espaços múltiplos e interligados. Todavia, denota-se a ausência de uma avaliação holística desses instrumentos, com vista a tomadas de decisão coerentes e transparentes em Portugal. Face a esta evidência, a presente dissertação propõe uma metodologia de avaliação sistémica e aplica-a a uma das medidas que promove a transferência tecnológica - os projetos Demonstradores. Este modelo permite monitorizar, informar e divulgar sobre a eficiência com que as atividades são coordenadas, a qualidade dos processos, os possíveis efeitos e externalidades, bem como o seu potencial de mercado, de forma precisa e abrangente. Os resultados foram bastante claros: a inovação, através da transferência tecnológica, promove mais emprego qualificado, ações de difusão, vontade de expansão de negócio, ligações internacionais, colaboração intersectorial e interregional e, por conseguinte, tecnologias com maior capacidade inovadora e comercial. Enfatiza-se, assim, um maior estímulo à sua prática em Portugal, o que implica a concertação do défice existente entre todos os agentes económicos seus constituintes.