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In this paper, we will firstly pay attention to the holistically external business environment of the outdoor adventure clothing in the UK and present a full picture of its market based on the UK. By giving this full picture, we will also identify the economic and sociocultural factors as two main factors from the PESTEL tool. They both are believed to have the most significant impact for the market...
The changing environment of the information society requires new abilities and competences of the young people. The present paper introduces the course, named "Strategic Business Decisions in a Risky and Rapidly Changing Environment", which was conducted in Burgas Free University and attended by students from 6 countries in Europe. The major issues and results of the conducted course are...
Network coevolution, the process of network topology evolution in feedback with dynamical processes over the network nodes, is a common feature of many engineered and natural networks. In such settings, the change in network topology occurs at a comparable time scale to nodal dynamics. Coevolutionary modeling offers the possibility to better understand how and why network structures emerge. For example,...
Empirical findings have shown that Innovation is the main driving factor in the economic growth in all the industries and Information Technology in particular at present scenario. So in this era of competition Innovation gives an edge to a company over the others and it becomes its sole survival factor. Despite all the interest and importance researchers still lack the fundamental understanding of...
In the world of increasing international competition, firms must improve their export efficiency if they are to survive as exporters. One way of increasing export performance is to use more effective export marketing strategies. Therefore the study attempts to provide more insight into export performance and marketing strategies. This study identifies the significant predictors of export performance...
Micro finance is the process of formation of groups to support the poverty incapacitated people by extending money without any collateral security. Micro finance includes savings accounts, insurance products and credit provided to low income unbanked people to increase their economic status in the society. Micro-insurance is a shelter against the hazards of low-income people in exchange of a premium...
Training effect evaluation is an essential step of enterprise training management. The article, by introducing the evaluation index system, attempts to evaluate enterprise training effect with grey correlation analysis method. By empirical analysis of an enterprise, it analyzes the staff training effect with the evaluation result, and further assesses the enterprise training effect. Accordingly, the...
Auctions can be represented using applications of game theory because they present explicit trading rules. The efficient programming procedure based on game theory can be implemented in computer algebra systems (CAS). The knowledge can be hidden from user as the CAS application that can be used as regular built-in CAS function. This way, the user can focus to programming test of different strategies...
Science and technology capability is one of the critical factors in developing the nation's competitiveness and driving the economic growth as well as the well-being of the people. The mobility of talent between academia and industry contributes significantly to the stock of human resources in science and technology, thus talent mobility at the national level plays an important role in the country's...
The assessment of photovoltaic technologies using multiple perspectives such as social, technological, economic, environmental, and political (STEEP) have become increasingly important in the last several years. Each perspective is composed of multiple criteria with the social and political perspectives gaining more significance. A hierarchical decision model using expert judgment quantification was...
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...
In this study, the number and the strength of scientific linkage of smartphone related patents of global leading companies is analyzed. The results show that patents with litigation or transfer cite more journal papers. Therefore, the analysis of the strength of scientific linkage of smartphone related patents of global leading companies will help to evaluate the quality or value of the patents. The...
This paper describes how Taurob GmbH (LLC), a startup firm in robotics from Vienna, Austria, commercialized its flagship product platform, the Taurob Tracker, using the marketing testbed (MTB) approach. Taurob developed a highly versatile robotics platform, the Tracker, for use in highly hazardous environments. The design is very modularized; it can be customized to nearly any environment, but one...
The paper concerns the measurement and forecasting of technological change, a topic relevant to many high-tech organizations and their customers. We revisit recent and classic data sets from technology forecasting data envelopment analysis (TFDEA) research and technometrics in light of a new visualization technique known as t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding (t-SNE). The technique is a non-linear...
In this paper, the contribution of empirical economic analysis to evidence based science, technology and innovation policy planning is discussed based on two case studies, (1) financial supports to firm's R&D by subsidies or tax measures and (2) innovation system reform policy such as university and industry collaboration promotion. It is important to make a good balance of "theoretical rigidness",...
The concept of innovation has been evolving. In the past, innovation was translated into Gijutsu-kakushin (technological reform), and the scope was limited to technology. However, today the scope of innovation has been expanding and it also includes "service innovation" as well as "social innovation." Social innovation is still a very new concept in Japan. After 3.11 (Great East...
State-of-the-art power exchange designs have to take a large set of economic and technical constraints into consideration. A specific difficulty is that most power generators have non-convex characteristics, for example startup costs and minimal load during operation. Minimum income condition orders constitute a method to represent some of the power plants' corresponding economic interests on energy...
Governments and agencies worldwide have used social welfare programmes as a means of improving the lives of vulnerable people. In Latin America and the Caribbean, conditional cash transfers (CCTs) have been used to change the dynamics of responsibility between state and beneficiary by instituting conditionalities. In order to maintain the integrity of these programmes, social workers are required...
In this paper, we expounds a cloud model of smartphone industry, and achieved consumers actively participate in the customization services of smartphone. Through social production theory and the combination of cloud computing services, use many kinds of 3D technology, new process technology of cooperative management, e-commerce, logistics and wisdom dynamic value chain analysis and so on. Using many...
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