The stronger party systems, corporatist decision making, strong bureaucracies, and weak philanthropic sectors dampened think tank development in Commonwealth parliamentary systems and Western Europe.
These entities include academic and research initiatives, the private sector, industry, think tanks and philanthropy.
Today's best ENGOs would succeed quite well as private sector consultancies, think tanks, international program managers, PR agencies, etc. Ocean Conservancy is certainly no exception to this.
Banks may be wary of taking up the loans before imminent ECB-led health-checks of the banking sector, said Karel Lannoo, chief executive of Brussels think tank the Centre for European Policy Studies.
The Reform think tank, which promotes reform of public sector services, says spending on primary and secondary level education in the UK rose by 86% in real terms in the decade between 2001-02 and 2011-12.
With regard to organizational innovation, the think tank "Ornamental Plant Strategy 2020" is an important network at sector level.
Mike Powell, director of IKM Emergent -- a think tank that examines knowledge-management practices in the global development sector -- has noticed this trend for years.
The think tank found the pay gap between public- and private-sector workers has "increased substantially" in the past four years.
He and Christensen later co-founded The Innosight Institute, a non-for profit think tank devoted to applying the theories of disruptive innovation to problems in the social sector.
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A final precedent is the return of party advisers and officials who have served in previous administrations and gone into exile in the private sector, media, and think tanks, awaiting the call to return to the service of the White House.
