http://crgp.stanford.edu/news/ en-us Copyright 2008 Sun, 13 Jan 2008 18:40:21 -0800 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.01 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss new report from Raymond James covers the exciting things happening in the Canadian infrastructure space , province by province.]]> http://crgp.stanford.edu/news/global_projects_nation_building_how_to_invest_in_canadas_infrastructure_and_construction_boom.html http://crgp.stanford.edu/news/global_projects_nation_building_how_to_invest_in_canadas_infrastructure_and_construction_boom.html Sun, 13 Jan 2008 18:40:21 -0800 http://www.nypress.com/20/50/news&columns/feature.cfm">Dan Doctoroff, former Deputy Mayor of NYC, is introduced as a dinner speaker he is often compared to a modern-day Robert Moses, the great builder. ]]> http://crgp.stanford.edu/news/global_projects_doctoroffs_law.html http://crgp.stanford.edu/news/global_projects_doctoroffs_law.html Sun, 30 Dec 2007 12:07:58 -0800 report produced by Infrastructure Partnership's Australia, obviously with the unstated intent of benefiting constituents of the infrastructure investment industry, but interesting all the same.]]> http://crgp.stanford.edu/news/global_projects_australias_infrastructure_priorities_securing_our_prosperity.html http://crgp.stanford.edu/news/global_projects_australias_infrastructure_priorities_securing_our_prosperity.html Sun, 16 Dec 2007 20:49:29 -0800 The small country of Qatar reaches into the Persian Gulf from the Arabian Peninsula between Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Its government looks beyond the country's wealth of oil and natural gas to a future of international commerce and investment. http://crgp.stanford.edu/news/global_projects_gisdss_models_for_qatar_economic_zones.html http://crgp.stanford.edu/news/global_projects_gisdss_models_for_qatar_economic_zones.html Tue, 06 Nov 2007 00:17:38 -0800 Le Monde, a respected French newspaper, asked editorially whether Africa will be Chinese in ten years. A good question from a French paper. French contractors cling to the largest national market share of construction in Africa but the Chinese are closing in at a growth rate of 25% vs. -0.29% for the French. http://crgp.stanford.edu/news/global_projects_china_in_africa_a_joint_project_with_oecd_world_bank_institute_tsinghua_university.html http://crgp.stanford.edu/news/global_projects_china_in_africa_a_joint_project_with_oecd_world_bank_institute_tsinghua_university.html Mon, 01 Oct 2007 23:52:58 -0800 During his year as a CRGP visiting scholar, Dr. Pi-Chu Chiu worked as a research manager on the China in Africa Project, which investigates how Chinese contractors develop and operate their business of building infrastructure in Africa. http://crgp.stanford.edu/news/global_projects_visiting_scholar_story_pichu_chiu.html http://crgp.stanford.edu/news/global_projects_visiting_scholar_story_pichu_chiu.html Sat, 29 Sep 2007 00:13:34 -0800 Infrastructure Journal has kindly granted us permission to post the three most popular articles from their archive:]]> http://crgp.stanford.edu/news/global_projects_top_articles_from_infrastructure_journal.html http://crgp.stanford.edu/news/global_projects_top_articles_from_infrastructure_journal.html Wed, 12 Sep 2007 00:18:56 -0800 Kirsi Eloranta spent the Fall of 2006 as a CRGP visiting scholar from Helsinki University of Technology where she works as a researcher and project manager in the Project Business Research Group at the BIT Research Center. The center is an independent research institute within the university. http://crgp.stanford.edu/news/global_projects_visiting_scholar_story_kirsi_eloranta.html http://crgp.stanford.edu/news/global_projects_visiting_scholar_story_kirsi_eloranta.html Wed, 05 Sep 2007 00:01:30 -0800 Question: What is the truest definition of Globalization? ]]> http://crgp.stanford.edu/news/global_projects_finally_a_definition_of_globalization_that_we_can_all_understand_.html http://crgp.stanford.edu/news/global_projects_finally_a_definition_of_globalization_that_we_can_all_understand_.html Thu, 23 Aug 2007 18:09:16 -0800 Below is a summary of a research project that is being conducted by one of our Finnish collaborators with partners in St. Petersburg, Russia: http://crgp.stanford.edu/news/global_projects_organizing_and_organizational_structures_for_project_business_in_changing_and_emerging_markets_.html http://crgp.stanford.edu/news/global_projects_organizing_and_organizational_structures_for_project_business_in_changing_and_emerging_markets_.html Mon, 06 Aug 2007 16:29:16 -0800 Pi-Chu Chiu for further information about the study. ]]> http://crgp.stanford.edu/news/global_projects_distribution_of_chinese_contractors_in_africa.html http://crgp.stanford.edu/news/global_projects_distribution_of_chinese_contractors_in_africa.html Fri, 01 Jun 2007 20:50:58 -0800 This is a particularily insightful email from Mike Garvin at Virginia Tech concerning the reality of political risk in the US PPP Market. This email was part of a string of emails that was exchanged last week between researchers at CRGP, Virgina Tech and various industry parties in reference to a project to examine the 100 year history of the changing nature of infrastructure finance in the US market. http://crgp.stanford.edu/news/global_projects_public_policy_and_political_risk_in_us_ppps.html http://crgp.stanford.edu/news/global_projects_public_policy_and_political_risk_in_us_ppps.html Sat, 05 May 2007 19:31:03 -0800 This memo was sent in response to the Planning Committee's Workshop Announcement and Proposed Program. Although it was not written as a blog entry, it may be of interest to a broader audience, and thus I am posting it here. http://crgp.stanford.edu/news/global_projects_memo_to_the_planning_committee_of_sustainable_infrastructures_in_developing_countries.html http://crgp.stanford.edu/news/global_projects_memo_to_the_planning_committee_of_sustainable_infrastructures_in_developing_countries.html Wed, 11 Apr 2007 19:07:30 -0800 From Development Gateway: "OECD countries have approved new principles to help governments in working with private sector partners to finance and bring to fruition major infrastructure projects in areas of vital economic importance such as transport, water and power supply and telecommunications. http://crgp.stanford.edu/news/global_projects_oecd_principles_on_private_participation_in_public_infrastructure.html http://crgp.stanford.edu/news/global_projects_oecd_principles_on_private_participation_in_public_infrastructure.html Wed, 04 Apr 2007 14:18:30 -0800 Yannis Zoiopoulos spent November and December of 2006 as a CRGP visiting scholar from University College London (UCL) where he is completing his PhD. His interests have focused on strategic project management, project-oriented companies as social systems, the evolution of such companies, and the evolution of social systems themselves. http://crgp.stanford.edu/news/global_projects_visiting_scholar_story_yannis_zoiopoulos.html http://crgp.stanford.edu/news/global_projects_visiting_scholar_story_yannis_zoiopoulos.html Wed, 14 Mar 2007 00:38:04 -0800