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Examine the factors affecting economic growth in the United States, emphasizing the importance of education, technological innovation, and perceived competence for national competitiveness. However, to enhance the country's competitiveness, the innovations and technological improvements, and stressed that the entrepreneur is an important factor affecting national competitiveness. Thus, this study...
The paper builds on a regional economic development framework that was developed as an advisory guide to regional governments internationally; as part of a UN-Habitat funded project. The original framework was based on ten case studies that served as illustrations of the implementation of the introduced economic development mechanisms. This paper provides an in-depth investigation into the practical...
By means of qualitative research methods, this study investigated the factors of negative experiences at different times regarding family trip destinations to explore the tourism experiences and the factors affecting negative experiences among family members. This study further probed the experiences of family members generated by tourism factories, thereby establishing a conceptual model regarding...
This paper employs self-determination theory in social psychology to examine the autonomous and controlled aspects of researchers' motivations for engaging in technology transfer collaboration. Based on in-depth interviews and a questionnaire survey of senior researchers from leading research institutes, this study indicated that researchers were drove by hybrid motives varying on the degree of self-determination,...
As the driving force behind the economic growth of the United States and China, Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) have fundamentally shaped a dramatic transformation in Small businesses, which represents the majority of all firms in both countries. However, while ICTs provide new opportunities and significant room of growth for the small business owners, the adoption of ICTs is still...
This paper presents a case study on the use of mobile digital services through smart phones to enhance known value chains by increasing the lateral margin value of services in the charity industry. Based on empirical data gathered from research, surveys and interviews, detailed recommendations and considerations for the design of mobile digital services are discussed: location services, in particular,...
This paper analyzes the barriers to information and communication technologies (ICT) use among extremely underserved minorities such as impoverished immigrants in the USA. In particular, we explore the physical and psychological barriers that prevent Hispanic day laborers in Seattle from making effective use of computers and the Internet. Based on a mixed-methods study that combined structured interviews,...
This study aims to identify the enabling factors influencing the success of university business incubators (UBIs) with respect to internal resources, and explore the priority of these factors, using evidence from Thailand. Research questions on whether the resource-related enabling factors are applicable to Thai UBIs and how varying the relative importance of these factors. Resource-based view (RBV)...
This paper proposes a framework for assessing the degree of success of Solar Home Systems (SHSs) including a consideration of the key factors that contribute to success. In future work feedback from relevant institutions will be incorporated in the process of developing the success framework and the relative importance of the various factors and barriers influencing the SHS's success. It is proposed...
In the last decade, business incubation has been an important strategy for promoting business and entrepreneurship development, both in developing countries and the EU. According to the United Nations Creative Economy Report 2010, there are a number of features indicating that in 2008–2009, the world economy faced its most severe recession in 70 years, which largely undermined growth, employment and...
It's an important reason for undergraduates to obtain employment difficultly that performance in real working situation can't fit the demands of employers. The theory of competency is a good way to solve the problem of performance. Employment competency dictionary was established based on literature, interview and expert team discussion in this paper, on the basis of which employment competency model...
A child version of mental accounting tasks has been administrated on 180 3- to 5-year-olds to tentatively investigate the development of young children's mental accounting. The results show that the development of young children's mental accounting varies along with age in the three ways in which the non-fungibility effect of mental accounting takes effect. In the expenditure loss task (ELT), mental...
The employment about university students is theoretical study focus of current social concern. This paper studies the competency-based employability indicators of college students, using self-questionnaire to Sampling investigate 2010 session graduates in Beijing, according to the situation of valid questionnaires, the use of several statistical software SPSSl8.0 exploratory factor analysis, to extract...
During the tourism development of folk art, some unexpected problems exist. This paper studied the living conditions of folk art in folk theme park, moreover discussing how folk art is displayed and perceived by the tourists, observation on spot and interviews. The study found. (1) The touristic situation of folk art in folk theme park is Staged Authenticity. (2) How tourists perceive determines the...
The paper is based on the framework of ecological urbanism, ecological urbanism with its capacity to organize complex sites, ecosystems and infrastructure has come to stand for an alternative to offer a culturally leavened, ecologically literate, and economically viable model for the development of city. Through study in design competition and analysis in Wudang Mountain Travel Special Economic Zone,...
In the paper, 173 university students were validly investigated by the questionnaire of learning motivation for university students. Firstly, through statistic analysis, we found that theuniversity students' learning motivation from strong to weak is in turn: result goal, repayment, seeking knowledge, employment and life, social dedication, passive avoidance. Then, though difference analysis, it was...
While there is increasingly strategic importance in knowledge, it is facing new challenges to manage knowledge effectively. The paper studies the motivational construct model for knowledge sharing from the perspective of content theories and social motivation theories. The data collected by using the questionnaire survey from a variety of industries was analyzed on the basis of interviews and pretest...
This paper makes use of literature research method, interviews, and empirical analysis of the questionnaire to explore the factors influencing the private entrepreneurs' trust in professional managers. Aiming at improving the relationship between the private entrepreneurs and professional managers, this paper puts forward some feasible recommendations. Its conclusions are of great significance and...
As an important component of language programs, formative evaluation is a type of evaluation which has the purpose of improving teaching and learning through providing teachers and learners with immediate and effective feedback. Firstly, the article presents problems of the implementation of current formative evaluation in college English teaching. Then it introduces a case study of comparing two...
New advances in technology have enabled teaching and learning in a variety of environments in higher education. One approach that continues to evolve and expand is the blended delivery option. Blended instruction has mainly involved the instructor making decisions regarding the combination of online and in-class learning activities required for the course. Recently, an innovative blended model, hyflex...
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