Traduction de «facteur de raccourcissement d'allongement » (Français → Anglais) :

A shortened ‘time to grant’ is also a precondition for the attraction of excellent research partners from all over the world—internationalisation being another pull-factor for industry participants.

Time spent waiting for public transport or walking is felt to be more ‘expensive’ than time spent in the car (in other words, time wasted in traffic jams irritates people less than the same length of time spent using public transport); time spent commuting is not assessed, and time wasted in this way goes unnoticed; measured in money terms, judgments of shortening or lengthening journey times are not symmetrical (only far more expensive private transport is assigned the same value as cheaper but perhaps slightly slower public transport); drivers generally under-estimate the true costs of their journeys and tend to base their assessmen ...[+++]ts solely on fuel costs; people have a tendency to ‘defend’ their choices by underrating alternatives which they reject.

(3) The Joint Report by the Commission and the Council on "increasing labour participation and promoting active ageing" (March 2002) made a strong plea for a preventive and lifecycle approach in the framework of a comprehensive and integrated strategy to tackle the challenge of ageing populations and looked at all factors enabling people to enter the labour market and workers to remain longer at work.

Factors such as the shortening of product life cycles and the combination of several technologies within a single product or service mean that the innovating enterprise increasingly depends on external inputs, in the form of skills, advice, proprietary technologies, cooperation networks, etc.

It is the only way of preventing longer lives from being nothing more than delayed death and ensuring that this increase represents the continuation of a genuine life, not forgetting that experience is also a factor in progress.

An analysis in France, where the low rate of implementation of all programmes is worrying, cites the profusion of co-financiers as one of the factors slowing down procedures, as the grant of the Community financing depends on a decision by the last co-financier.